The 89-year-old director praised the president as “well mannered” and “a pleasure to work with.” However why would Trump even need Allen on his facet?
As if we would have liked another excuse to query Woody Allen’s judgment, the 89-year-old director praised President Trump as “well mannered” and “a pleasure to work with” on Invoice Maher’s podcast, “Membership Random.”
Allen, who solid Trump in a cameo look for his 1998 movie “Movie star,” stated on Monday’s podcast that the then-real property mogul “hit his mark, did every part accurately and had an actual aptitude for present enterprise.”
“As an actor, he was superb,” Allen stated. “He was very convincing, and he has a charismatic high quality as an actor. And I’m shocked he needed to enter politics. Politics is nothing however complications and significant selections and agony.”
Trump’s newest essential choice as commander in chief? Sharing the filmmaker’s optimistic feedback on his Reality Social account. Heavy hangs the crown …
However why would Trump even need Allen on his facet?
Allen’s legacy as a groundbreaking filmmaker was tarnished by revelations about his private life that emerged within the Nineties. It was revealed that he had a romantic relationship along with his then-girlfriend Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Quickly-Yi Previn. He was 56. She was 21. Allen’s personal daughter with Farrow, Dylan, would later accuse Allen of sexually molesting her, claims that he denies. Even when followers need to separate the artist from information tales in regards to the man, it’s tough on condition that Allen’s movies usually mirror an obsession with youthful — and sometimes underage — ladies.
The president has been doing every part attainable to bury his previous associations with older males who allegedly prey on youthful ladies. There’s this man named Jeffrey Epstein …
There’s clearly no evaluating Allen to the late convicted little one intercourse trafficker, however why even open the door to such scrutiny? It’s as a result of a praise is a praise, and there are so few of them coming from Hollywood that Trump couldn’t assist however copy, paste and publish.
Extra troubling is that Allen now joins Maher in normalizing America’s first president who operates like a dictator, describing Trump as “nice,” “gracious,” even “measured.” In the meantime, the White Home is siccing militarized forces on American cities, making an attempt to deport planeloads of kids and trying to rig the 2026 midterms.
Maher responded to Allen’s flattering phrases about Trump with mock outrage: “How dare you?!”
Allen might have shocked listeners who know the director as a grasp satirist of the flawed character, however Maher was proper on model. The 69-year-old has solid a profession enjoying to all sides of contentious points whereas sincerely committing to none.
Earlier this 12 months, the host of HBO’s “Actual Time With Invoice Maher,” who describes himself as a “vocal critic” of Trump, caught flak for eating with the president at Mar-a-Lago, then later describing Trump as “gracious,” “not pretend” and that “every part I’ve ever not preferred about him was absent.” He praised Trump for being “measured” and never just like the “one who performs a loopy individual on TV.”
Larry David, the creator of “Seinfeld” and star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” responded to Maher’s laudatory dinner recollection with a satirical essay within the New York Occasions titled “My Dinner With Adolf.” David wrote from the angle of a “vocal critic” of the Nazi dictator who, over dinner, finds Hitler to be surprisingly “disarming” and “genuine.” The essay went viral.
Throughout Monday’s podcast, Allen counterbalanced his sort phrases about Trump with the revelation that he voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election. He additionally stated that he disagrees with Trump on “99%” of points.
After questioning aloud why Trump went into politics, Allen stated, “This was a man I used to see on the Knicks video games, and he preferred to play golf, and he preferred to guage magnificence contests, and he preferred to do issues that had been pleasing and stress-free. Why anybody would need to all of the sudden should take care of the problems of politics is past me.”
Maybe it’s about seizing whole energy? Exacting revenge on enemies resembling his former nationwide safety advisor John Bolton? Scrubbing the Epstein information? Profiting off his workplace?
However let’s get again to Allen.
The director reiterated that he disagreed “with many, virtually all, not all, however virtually all of his politics, of his insurance policies. I can solely decide what I do know from directing him in movie. And he was nice to work [with], and really skilled, very well mannered to everybody…
“If he would let me direct him now that he’s president, I believe I may do wonders.”
He children. However it was solely just some days in the past that Allen got here below fireplace for nearly attending the Moscow Movie Pageant as a visitor of honor. He praised Russian cinema and hinted at eager to shoot a movie within the nation. After some “measured” thought, maybe Putin will get a cameo.
