Clint Eastwood Praises Trump for Being ‘On To Something’

[TomCADem]

Source: Time

NEW YORK — Clint Eastwood has stopped short of endorsing Donald Trump, but in an interview in Esquire magazine he praised the Republican presidential candidate for being “on to something.”

In the interview posted online Wednesday, the actor-director hailed Trump as a foe of political correctness and lamented what he called “the kiss-ass generation.”

“Everybody’s walking on eggshells,” said Eastwood, 86. “We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”

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“What Trump is onto is he’s just saying what’s on his mind. And sometimes it’s not so good. And sometimes it’s. I mean, I can understand where he’s coming from, but I don’t always agree with it,” he said.

Read more: http://time.com/4438268/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-2016-election/?xid=homepage

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I guess Trump is picking up some support.

[Blue Owl]

1. What's that -- Trump is on something?

n/t

[JesterCS]

40. You know, I thought I was going to have the witty response,

You beat me to it, damnit. Lol

[JI7]

2. what is he talking about ?

[truthisfreedom]

3. I think Clint's amazed that trump's figured out a way to herd

all of the worst elements of society into one steaming pile of adoring fans.

[MattP]

4. Back in his day racism was fun

[olddad56]

18. when he grew up, overt rascism was tolerated and almost socailly acceptable by white people.

but it was just as wrong then. We have a long ways to go, but we have come along ways.

[NWCorona]

5. Clint has an affinity for things that are empty.

[PSPS]

6. "When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist."

When Eastwood was "growing up" (he was born in 1930,) we still had legal segregation, separate water fountains, routine lynchings and the rest. The Army was segregated until Truman integrated it in 1948 (the last segregated unit was disbanded in 1954 when Eastwood was 24.) And, yes, it wasn't called being racist then, at least by most white people.

[63splitwindow]

9. Yeah. No matter what they were called Clint, they WERE racist, we were just too

politically correct back then to call it that. Stupid jackass. Displaying your actual rotten character will not bolster your image Clint. Sit down and go sit in that empty chair.

[Journeyman]

7. He should have spoken up earlier. He could have had a spot in the RNC Convention, maybe. . .

spent 10 minutes talking to a commode, pretending it's Trump -- sort of an upbeat, classier chair. Might have got one with gold fixtures to complete the scene.

[rpannier]

8. I'll agree with Clint if...

he takes the 'to' out

[shenmue]

10. On to what, a crack pipe?

[orwell]

11. Go away you old fart. By the way...

...I thought your movies sucked too!

[Feeling the Bern]

13. Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven were good

The rest were average at best.

[busterbrown]

15. He’s an old asshole but..

Mystic River was great.. Sean Penn nailed it.. One of those movies i can watch over and over again..

[Feeling the Bern]

16. I didn't like that one. Too long and it had two too many endings.

[busterbrown]

19. Funny that we differ so much..

My favorite all time films? Not in order.. Best years of our lives..on the waterfront..Man for all Seasons. Midnight Cowboy, French Connection, Kings Speech...how close are we in taste..?

[Feeling the Bern]

20. Mine, in no order

Inherit the Wind, Days of Wine and Roses, Streetcar Named Desire, Dances With Wolves, French Connection, Judgement at Nuremberg.

[busterbrown]

23. Yea great films... I’m right there wit ya...on all of em. I’d pass on Streetcar,

simply because of it’s History Broadway..

[Feeling the Bern]

26. I played Stanley on stage in university, so that's what it's there for me.

[busterbrown]

37. Cool!

must have been the heartthrob of the campus...

[Feeling the Bern]

38. No. . .I just had a thick NY accent and built like a truck with acting talent

Off stage, I was the most introverted person in the world.

[busterbrown]

42. Par for the course

probably have some great memories

[MFM008]

24. I love costume dramas

Man for all Seasons
Mary Queen of Scots
Cromwell
Anne of 1000 days
Beckett
Loved all of them.

[Wounded Bear]

36. His spaghetti westerns were classic...nt

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Did the old senile man talk to the empty chair first?

"When I was a kid". . .76 years ago, black people couldn't vote, homosexuals were beaten for coming out, women had a million foot glass ceiling and Chinese people were still barred from entry due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. . .oh, and the only crime Japanese Americans did to get thrown into internment camps was the crime of lineage.

Fuck you, Clint! Isn't it time to force another woman in your life to get her tubes tied so you don't have a child with her so you have two with a secret mistress, like you did when you were with Sondra Locke?

[AllyCat]

14. Maybe he's on a chair?

[montana_hazeleyes]

17. There is so much I'd like to say, but many of you folks have already said it well.

So I'll just say to the racist old bastard..... Empty Chair- Empty Head.

[jtuck004]

21. "A man's got to know his limitations." n/t

[C Moon]

22. I lose more and more respect for Eastwood every election.

...and it makes it hard to watch his movies.

[Justice]

25. Clint will regret reminding us all of his 2012

Moment. What he says about Trump is so revealing - insight into minds of a Trump supporters.

[mdbl]

27. He can kiss mine!

that's all i have left to say bout Clint.

[Laser102]

28. Poor old delusional Clint. Sometimes you shouldn't take the ramblings of old men seriously. When

he grew up, those things WERE and still ARE racist. The thing is, now decent people call you on it. Not PC. Just rejecting the bigotry. That, in itself, is what pisses these jackass bigots off.

[Tempest]

29. lamented what he called “the kiss-ass generation.”

Tough words from a guy who spent the Korean war in the states as a swimming instructor for the Army.

[Javaman]

30. is that "on to something" or "ON something"? nt

[Javaman]

31. In other news: eastwood has running conversation with lamp. nt

[COLGATE4]

32. It's a transcribing mistake. What Clint really said

is that Donald "is on something".

[lastlib]

33. The Chair doesn't recognize Clint Eastwood.

Sit down and STFU, Clint! Or better yet, got out and play with Ted Shittypants Nugent.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

34. I'm sure Il Douche will have the fake tough guy constituency all sewn up

by November.

[Jade Fox]

35. "On to something..." Wow. Talk about a ringing endorsement!

So from now on the only qualification for Presidential candidacy will being "on to something"?

[freebrew]

39. Seriously...

what the hell is Clint on?

[awoke_in_2003]

41. "saying what's on his mind"

Hey assclown, that is what is so scary.