The actor Jeff Daniels has said he hopes those who voted for Donald Trump’s second term in the White House lose money as a consequence.
Speaking to MSNBC’s The Best People With Nicolle Wallace podcast, Daniels addressed the president’s supporters, saying: “I hope you’re losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK. My question is, ‘What are you guys going to do about it?’”
Daniels continued by saying he believed Trump’s slate of tariffs would cost him supporters. “‘Wait a minute, the grocery bill is what? $180 more? I can’t get that car that we have to have unless I pay another $8,000. What? Who do I blame for that? Who do I see about that?’ One person.
“At the end of the day it would be about just the price of eggs, did it go up or down, because that’s what he told me he was going to lower the price of eggs or my grocery bill,” Daniels continued, before describing the president as a “snake-oil salesman.”
Daniels said he had been surprised by the pace of change since Trump took office again in January.
“We’ve lost decency, we’ve lost civility, we’ve lost respect for the rule of law – lost it,” he said. “We have normalised verbal abuse on the internet. We’ve normalised bullying; much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that, it’s back …
“I mean, nobody has great things to say about politicians. They never have. Go back to Mark Twain. But ideally, we’re supposed to elect the best of us. Not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but with being a human being.”
Daniels’s most recent projects were TV series American Rust and A Man in Full. He rose to fame with roles in Ragtime, Terms of Endearment and Heartburn, before finding international acclaim in The Purple Rose of Cairo in 1985.
Other films include Something Wild, The Squid and the Whale, Speed, Dumb and Dumber and Steve Jobs. He plays Ronald Reagan opposite Jared Harris as Mikhail Gorbachev in a forthcoming take on the 1986 Reykjavik Summit.
