Something to offend everyone?
Do you think Trump has become successful in part because he deployed similar tactics of shock and attention grabbing as you did? When I was on Bill Maher with Andrew Breitbart, [Breitbart] said to me, “I do the same thing you do; we’re just on different sides.” Which is true. So I get why Trump supporters like [Trump], because he is doing what he said he was going to do and we hate him so much he makes us crazy.
Always an interesting fellow. Smart guy, easy to underestimate because he is out-of-the-mainstream in certain ways. But he understands things better than a lot of people.
That was actually a very well done interview.
The reporter asked some good questions, not just ‘gotcha’ questions, meant to startle or trap.
It helps if you already know who John Waters is, but that’s not difficult to Google if one is truly interested.
I count those movies as “Among the many films my parents would never know that I’d seen and laughed at”.
John Waters is my #1 guilty pleasure.
Excellent interview.
I’ve never really liked his movies. Serial Mom is OK but mostly his stuff is crap. But he’s a lot of fun to listen to talk.
Is there a Democratic primary candidate you support?
Here’s what I think: [Trump] is gonna win again, because I say it myself and they all go “Ahhh!” when I say that. And I say, “Who are you gonna vote for?” Silence. There are 40 characters that are going to divide it all up. You know, the gay one I like. I’d vote for any of them, even though it would be really hard for me to vote for Elizabeth Warren who has never once said a funny thing in her entire life.
She is the best one, I would argue.
I think she will lose. Any of the ones that have already been out there will lose, big time. And any of the ones that try to be super left wing will really lose, too. And all the other ones just haven’t been around. I don’t know. I’m very much against Kamala [Harris] because she is a prisoner’s enemy. She made it so that you couldn’t get parole for ten years instead of five in California. She did a lot of things that are against prisoners’ rights, so I’m definitely against her. What’s the one, Mayor Pete? Is he the gay one?
Buttigieg, yeah.
To me it better be somebody young and somebody new. Who knows! It’s a civil war, and I believe that it could be decided by one vote. It’s split right down the middle. It’s just exhausting to me.
But I get why they like [Trump], because he infuriates us. And it’s everything he said he was gonna do. So he’s not lying to them. We were just too stupid and sat home and didn’t vote. Because the Democrats — so that’s what you get.
Although to be fair, Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote.
Yeah, but that’s not the way it works. If we won and he won the popular vote, we wouldn’t have said that. They’re always gonna say that. Well, then change it! But until they do, that’s the way it works. Look, I voted for Hillary. I like Hillary. She’d lose. They’d all lose. Amy Carter has a better chance.
Sounds like a “closet” Trump fan.
I read a book by him decades ago. I forget the name.
It was hilarious.
Thanks for posting that. It was a fun read.