Posted on 02/21/2020 6:23:52 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The Hollywood actor and director was staying at a hotel owned by Steve Wynn, the casino billionaire. "Steve called me up in the room and said, 'Do you want to go play golf? We're going out with Trump.' I said, 'Who?' and Steve said, 'Trump. You know Trump?' "
So Messrs. Eastwood and Wynn ventured out for a morning on the course with Donald Trump. "It was funny," Mr. Eastwood says, "because every time I was together with Steve"—with the future president out of earshot—"he would say, 'You know, Trump is doing those damn casinos. He's going to lose his ass.' " And when Mr. Wynn couldn't hear, "Trump would say, 'You know, Steve is going to do this big hotel. He's going to land right on his ass. There are too many hotels now.' "
Back and forth the dissing went for hours, Mr. Eastwood recalls: "Together, they were great friends, but separately they were giving each other a hard time. I don't know how much tongue-in-cheek was in all of that, but it was very amusing for me, the lone guy."
Mr. Eastwood relates this story over a frugal lunch, in response to my asking for his thoughts on Mr. Trump.
As for the domestic political scene, Mr. Eastwood seems disheartened. "The politics has gotten so ornery," he says, hunching his shoulders in resignation. He approves of "certain things that Trump's done" but wishes the president would act "in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level." As he drives me back to my hotel, he expresses an affinity for another former mayor: "The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there."
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I wonder what he thought of the last debate.
We can see how the media, spins, makes stuff up, lies...
These people that can't get over the idea of Trump tweeting need to think
what the alternative would be.
The lying media 99% of the time, and Trump's actual words twisted, chopped,
sliced and diced, to the point we couldn't recognize it if we found a stack 42
copies of what Trump actually said.
This is just abuse of Eastwood for a reporter's ego.
Well, you're dead to me now.
RIP Clint.
Eastwood was an actor. That’s all he’s pretty much ever been. Yes, a good one. But I have never overly concerned myself with what Hollywood thinks.
I don’t believe it.
Best look at the author of the article.
When you gotta shoot, shoot, don’t talk. ~ Tuco
I wonder if the Bloomberg quote is true in itself, or if it was taken out of context?
Such as, perhaps a question, who do you think should be in the nuthouse?
I wonder if the Bloomberg quote is true in itself, or if it was taken out of context?
Such as, perhaps a question, who do you think should be in the nuthouse?
Sure hope President Trump keeps TWEETING.
He puts the wrong-doers in their place....which in most cases should be a jail cell.
But, Barr does NOT have the balls to file charges, IMHO.
Total BS. This author is so far out in left field they don’t have bleachers.
I didn’t want to go through the Wall Street Journal paywall to read the entire article, but I doubt Eastwood endorses gun grabber Bloomberg.
“Blonde. ......!”
“Don’t die Blondie, don’t die “
I doubt the validity of this story!
Gonna have to see confirmation of Clint endorsing little Mike before I accept this...
How old is he? 90? He’s obviously suffering some mental deficiency. Nick Faldo and Jim Nantz tried interviewing him during the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and he just sat there like a zombie. I don’t think he even knew where he was.
I don’t believe Eastwood said this.
I get wsj...will read this and get back to all.
We can’t forget that it was Romney that Eastwood supported in 2012.
[I get wsj...will read this and get back to all.]
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