‘White Lotus’ Star Jason Isaacs’ Trump Takedown On Live TV Goes Viral | EUROtoday

Jason Isaacs’ surprising segue into political commentary whereas selling the newest season of “The White Lotus” is making waves on social media.

During a late February look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Jonathan Lemire had simply welcomed the British actor to debate the present when Isaacs commented on the problem of shifting reporting from critical political points ― particularly, the fallout from President Donald Trump’s controversial insurance policies ― to a lighter leisure section. He then pivoted to a pointy critique of Trump. A clip of the alternate resurfaced this week and rapidly went viral.

Isaacs, who performs ultra-wealthy businessman Timothy Ratliff in HBO’s darkish comedy, didn’t maintain again when discussing Trump’s cuts to world assist packages and looming assaults on Social Security.

“When I sat down, I went, ‘How do you transition from [talking about] killing people all over the world by taking their medicine away and then talk about a television show?’” Isaacs remarked. “But maybe there is some kind of segue because [‘The White Lotus’ is] about rich people being selfish.”

“I want to know this,” Isaacs continued. “If you decided that Medicare wasn’t working, would you shut down all treatment for every single person in America? Or would you go, ‘Let’s review it while it’s ongoing because we’re saving people’s lives?’”

He then appeared to reference the administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development: “How do you take money away from the entire world, killing millions of people, taking their medicine away, and then go, ‘We may give it back to you in a few months’ time, when you’re dead’? What is the logic behind that? Who voted for that?”

Isaacs then doubled down: “That was not part of his mandate. I watched in horror most of the campaigning, and he never mentioned any of that stuff.”

“Anyway, sorry, we’re talking about a television show, but there is a tie-in,” he added. “I am playing an enormously wealthy and self-centered person who has really only thought about himself for most of his life.”

“We appreciate versatile guests who can do both the news and their show,” mentioned Lemire.