WATCH: Kelsey
Grammer Says Trump Has Accomplished More Than ‘Washington Clowns’ Have In 60
Years
"Washington didn't do us any favors ... "
By Paul Bois
@paulbois39
May 16, 2019
One of the few Hollywood conservatives, Kelsey Grammer of
TV's "Frasier," is singing President Trump's praises for doing more
in 60 years than all of the "Washington clowns" that have been his
detractors.
According to Newsbusters,
Grammer sat down with Christiane Amanpour on the PBS show "Amanpour and
Company" on Tuesday night. First, the host asked if his outspoken
conservatism has been costly to him in any way in such a left-wing bastion like
Hollywood.
"Can I ask you, Kelsey, because we were talking
obviously about today's politics and it's very divisive, very partisan, whether
it's in the United States, whether it's here," Amanpour began. "You
are one of those rare Hollywood beasts who is conservative, and you voted for
Donald Trump. And I just wonder, what, whether you sort of took any hits in
Hollywood for that? Did you feel that you were sort of marginalized?"
"I’m not aware of taking a hit for it but now,
certainly passions run high, and certainly he has touched on an extraordinarily
passionate response," Grammer said. "I don't know if it's as serious
or horrible as everybody wants it to be."
As the interview continued, Amanpour pressed Grammer on
if he feels President Trump has "disrupted" the social fabric. Grammer
said that the disruption is quite a good thing, adding that Washington has done
little for people in the past 50 or even 60 years.
AMANPOUR: I was wondering whether you thought the sort
of, many people believe this sort of fabric is being disrupted.
GRAMMER: Well I think fabric being disrupted is a good
thing.
AMANPOUR: You do?
GRAMMER: Oh yeah. I don’t think Washington didn't do us
any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same
party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people.
AMANPOUR: It's politics.
GRAMMER: And I don't think they've been helping anybody
but themselves.
Amanpour asked Grammer how people can reconcile amid such
divisions, citing both Brexit and President Trump. Grammer said people will
recover just fine because they have been through much worse.
AMANPOUR: What about people? Do you wonder, I mean here
with Brexit, how can people sort of get back together again?
GRAMMER: I think the English people should be just fine
because you know they've been through a lot worse.
AMANPOUR: And the American people?
GRAMMER: And the American people will be just fine, too.
We've been through a lot worse.
Kelsey Grammer is not the only Hollywood conservative to
praise Trump for shaking up the pot and getting things done – a draining of the
swamp, so to speak. In an interview with Entertainment
Weekly last year, actor Tim Allen said that it took a special kind of person
like Trump to "get things done."
"The theater of this is fascinating," Allen
said. "He doesn’t do it very attractively but you don’t even realize the
economy is doing better. Is it? There’s so much drama. Maybe it took this type
of guy to get stuff done because it was so stuck in the mud. I’m just watching
the theater of it and trying to keep my personal opinions out of it. What
difference does it make whether I like him?"
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