Posted on 04/05/2018 12:34:13 PM PDT by ethom
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says he would “either have knelt or raised my fist in solidarity” in the clash between President Trump and NFL players kneeing during the national anthem.
“I felt like our president’s responses were being dictated by the noise, and not the actual problem,” Johnson said in an interview with Rolling Stone, adding that the protests were “a cry for help.” He added: “I think when human beings are in jeopardy, and they ask for help, good-quality human beings, whether locally or at the highest level of office, they help.”
Last year, Johnson criticized the way Trump handled the protests by the professional athletes. Many NFL players, like former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick and Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane, decided not to stand during the national anthem, and in the following months, players kneeled and bowed their heads to protest police brutality and social injustice. Trump blasted the players as showing “total disrespect” for the American flag.
In the Rolling Stone interview, Johnson also takes a step back from talk about his own potential presidential run, which has been a hot topic since he jokingly announced his 2020 candidacy during his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Life” in July 2017. Since then, he’s said it’s a “real possibility.”
“I mean, look,” Johnson told Rolling Stone, “people are very excited, and it’s so flattering that they’re excited. I think it’s also a function of being very unsatisfied with our current president. But this is a skill set that requires years and years of experience. On a local level, on a state level and then on a national level. I have the utmost respect for our country and that position, and I’m not delusioned in any way to think, ‘Oh, absolutely, if Trump can do it, I can do it, and I’ll see you in 20-whatever, get ready.’ Not at all.”
“I think in a lot of people’s minds, what Trump has proved is that anybody can run for president,” Johnson added. “And in a lot of people’s minds, what he’s also proved is that not everybody should run for president. What I’m sensing now is that we have to pivot back to people who have a deep-rooted knowledge of American history and politics and experience in policy and how laws get made. I think that pivot has to happen.”
For now, Johnson says he’s taking “under-the-radar” meetings with “Republicans, Democrats, independents, mayors, strategists, you name it,” to just soak it in and listen and to learn “as much as I possibly can.”
“I entertain the thought, and thank you, I’m so flattered by it. But I feel like the best thing I can do now is, give me years,” he said. “Let me go to work and learn.”
Johnson, once again saying he didn’t vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election — in fact, he’s said he didn’t vote at all.
Read the full Rolling Stone profile here. Johnson will next star in “Rampage,” out April 13.
O.J. did it.
Boy, if the Rock decides to run it could be a real game changer.......for about three voters.
Shut up and dance, DeeeeeeWayne. Nobody GAS what you would have done.
I’m cool with his response....
“The rock” is one of the people along with jason Statham or Vin Diesel that I know if they are in a movie it has to be crapola and I don’t bother with it.
Roid Rage 2018!
Deewayne peaked on the Miami Hurricane defensive line back in the 1990’s!
Another marionette who thinks he has something to say that’s worth hearing.
Ironic, my money has been protesting his movies for years by doing similar... kneeling in my wallet and well, just staying there.
Sounds like steroids inflated his ego, and negatively affected his ability to think clearly. Or, he’s just a typical democrat.
Rampage was a cool game. This movie looks like the next Hollywood failure.
Same here. Vin is a big obama ass licker too. Statham. a bud of mine knows him and he supposedly stays away from politics.
Cry for help? It was solidarity with pig socks and Fidel Castro adulation. It was advocacy for cop attacker Michael Brown over law enforcement. As said previously the same group think as the celebration of OJs jury decision. There is no issue to cry for help. It’s a myth.
There is a train stuck in Alabama with a load of what the Rock is “Cooking”/spewing!
Is Diesel a libtard?
My family loved the Pacifier.
I have yet to see Pitch Black or Riddick, but happened across the Chronicles a few years ago and found it evokative enough to watch once.
Oh, c’mon, Vin Diesel was funny as all get out when he played Riddick.
As for Duh-Wayne, as others have said: Buh-Bye.
No, that's what we have to pivot away from, and that's exactly why Trump won.
The career politicians with all that experience have turned government into private club of corruption. They help each other get rich by screwing over the American citizens. Trump was the only candidate who is trying to put Americans first, not his friends.
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