Dennis Quaid endorses Donald Trump, his “Most Popular President of the 21st Century.”
It’s no surprise that the actor Dennis Quaid showed up to support Donald Trump’his relentless efforts to return to the White House. What’s surprising is that the Texans, who came this close to describe the former president George W. Bush in a popular TV series, turned his back on the 43rd president, saying he preferred Trump to the two-term president from 2001-2009.
The announcement was made Saturday, after Quaid took the stage at Trump’s rally in California’s Coachella Valley. At the demonstration, Quaid—who hesitated speak Piers Morgan in May, “Myself, I think I would vote for [Trump] in the next election,” and that “I was prepared not to vote for Trump… but I saw our justice system weaponized.”
The actor continued: “Trump is probably the most investigated person in the history of the world. “And they couldn’t really get him to do anything.”
Quaid was proven wrong a few days later, when a Manhattan jury found out Trump committed 34 serious crimes for falsifying business records; even before that, the former president had passed away some civil casesinclude that one The jury found him guilty sexually abused and defamed his accuser, E. Jean Carroll.
When asked by Morgan: “Do you have to like Trump to vote for him,” Quaid pressed harder. “No,” he quickly replied. “During the last campaign, in ’16 and ’20, I found myself saying ‘oh please don’t do that. Please don’t say that.” These things will come out of his mouth.”
“People might call him a bastard,” Quaid said. “But he’s my asshole.”
In recent months, however, it appears Trump has been promoted from Dennis Quaid’s asshole to Dennis Quaid’s favorite president… that is, since 2000. After taking the stage at the campaign event running for the former president on Saturday, Quaid said Trump was “My favorite President of the 21st century,” a field that included Bill Clintonwho left office in 2001 and portrayed Quaid in the 2010 film Special relationshipabout Tony Blair’s relationship with Clinton and George W. Bush. (New York Times mentioning Quaid’s turn which, by the way, is “brilliant”.)
It also included Bush, who was cast as Quaid. Ryan Murphyhad an abortion Katrina: American Crime Story (part without Quaid in it was eventually reused into the Apple TV series Five Days at the Memorial) And there they are Barack Obamawhom Quaid supported in 2008, then call Obama “Superman is for everyone.”
But Superman clearly ranks lower than the bastard, at least in Quaid’s mind. At Saturday’s event, Quaid announced“You know, I’m an actor and I just came out with this movie, it’s a famous name: Reagan. My favorite president of the 20th century.”
“We are a nation in decline. That’s what they told us. Ronald Reagan came along and said, no, we are not a nation in decline. We will get there. And we followed him. So does Trump. With President Trump. My favorite president of the 21st century.”
A strange statement to say the least, as it is Trump who has been many times declared an American recession, even said at an August rally that “I often use this term to end with, ‘We are a nation in decline. We are a failed state.” And I think that’s a good phrase.” Meanwhile, Democratic Party candidate and current vice president Kamala Harris dispute about that featuresaying instead that the country is about to “write the next amazing chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.”
When combined with the rest of the Quaid’s speech, one has to wonder whether he understood who he was campaigning for. “I’m here today to tell you that it’s time to choose a side,” the actor began. “Are we going to be a nation that represents the Constitution or TikTok?” he asked, an apparent reference to the social media platforms that politicians on both sides of the aisle have tried to ban.
That ban, which the President Joe Biden signed into lawmakes Quaid’s two-sided assessment a bit more confusing, especially given Trump’s statements in 2020 call “terminate all rules, regulations and provisions, even those contained in the Constitution.” Meanwhile, in July, Trump proudly declared“I support TikTok” when the ban is applied.
So when Quaid says, “It’s time to pick a side,” does he really mean the side of the person who thinks a backward country is “beautiful” and that TikTok deserves a lot of support? public support over the Constitution? Or perhaps—like his favorite president of the last century—he was just confused.
