Morgan Freeman Rips Trump And His Immigration Policies | EUROtoday

Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman on Thursday unleashed on President Donald Trump throughout a no-holds-barred look on MS NOW, however solely after graciously asking “Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell if he might “use profanity” to take action.

Freeman final appeared on this system in 2020 following the demise of civil rights activist John Lewis and skim his remaining essay on the present. O’Donnell on Thursday famous simply how totally different the world is now and requested Freeman if he had any ideas on the matter.

“Can I use any profanity?” Freeman requested.

He continued, “Well, we have somebody sitting in the White House who’s leading us down a shithole. I can’t personally understand how a convicted felon, convicted, [with] 34 felon — felonious, is that the word? — counts of wrongdoing gets to be president.”

Freeman was referring to the 2024 hush cash trial in New York that noticed Trump discovered responsible on all 34 expenses of falsifying enterprise paperwork to cowl up an alleged sexual encounter with porn actor Stormy Daniels earlier than the 2016 presidential election.

“How do you do that?” Freeman requested. “When say, ‘Well, he was…,’ I don’t care. That ruling went down before he stepped into the Oval Office. So it just doesn’t make sense to me.”

Trump has denied wrongdoing, dismissing his conviction as a “rigged decision.”

Freeman was selling “The Gray House,” a Prime Video sequence he helped produce that dramatizes the true story of a woman-led community of Union Army spies through the Civil War. But he argued that the U.S.’s present issues replicate a good bleaker historic interval.

“I’m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935,” he advised O’Donnell. “What was happening there? The brownshirts, those people that are marching through, particularly Berlin, and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars and sending them off.”

Freeman continued, “Now this administration wants to build large detention centers.”

Trump has quickly expanded the variety of immigration detention facilities over the course of his present administration. The variety of detainees has elevated by 50% over the previous 12 months, with innumerable reviews describing inhumane situations contained in the services.

O’Donnell famous that “the condition this country’s now in” has demoralized giant swaths of younger individuals who can’t assist however really feel that the political panorama is “the worst” it’s ever been, asking Freeman what he would inform these youths.

The actor replied, “I don’t know what I would say to young people, other than if you are at all aware of where we’re headed, where we are right now and where we’re headed — and if you don’t agree with it — there is one sure way to change the direction of our country: Vote.”