Actor Michael Shannon: Trump was elected by a 'country of moronic a--holes'

Business Insider ^ | 11/15/16 | John Lynch

[EdnaMode]

Actor Michael Shannon held nothing back about the 2016 presidential election and President-elect Donald Trump while promoting his new film "Nocturnal Animals" in a new interview with Rogerebert.com.

When asked whether he could make sense of how exactly Trump was elected, Shannon had a vitriolic response about Trump's supporters.

"Yeah, I'll tell you how to make sense of it: This country's filled with ignorant jackasses," he said. "The big red dildo running through the middle of our country needs to be annexed to be its own country of moronic a--holes. You can call it the United States of Moronic F---ing A--holes."

[Conserv]

Yeah, he is butt ugly.

I’ve never even heard of the fool.

[YogicCowboy]

Actors are a specialized kind of rhetorician: They pretend to be something they are not, and to speak about something they know not. (”I am not a doctor, but I play one on TV.”)

Plato denounced rhetoric as a means for an amateur or an impostor to influence the ignorant populace.

[publius911]

Speaking of moronic a--holes...

What's a michael Shannon?

[MoochPooch]

What a refined, thoughtful gentleman. (sarcasm)

[MoochPooch]

Let’s be honest, we say the same thing about democrats, just think of how many voted for Hillary, it’a astounding how stupid they are.

Yes, but we say the same thing about them, but we're not biting the hand the feeds us. This guy just insulted a core fan base. While he has a right to be disappointed over the elections, he should have expressed it differently.

[MarkL]

No idea who this loser is, but I'll keep the name in mind, to make sure I never make the mistake of seeing a movie he's in.

Who am I kidding, I've already forgotten his name.

Mark

[rdl6989]

I’ve never heard of him, and I won’t pay to watch him.