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A Hollywood Legend Talks Politics; Actor-director Clint Eastwood, 89, weighs in on Bloomberg, Trump, #MeToo and the dispute over a reporter's depiction in his latest film.
Wall Street Journal ^ | Feb. 21, 2020 1:56 pm ET | Tunku Varadarajan

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; bloomberg; clinteastwood; kag; maga; trump
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To: Texas Fossil

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How does this fit with the empty chair real-life meme Clint did?


21 posted on 02/21/2020 7:06:03 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Zhang Fei

One thing for sure is that Dick Van Dyke supports Bernie LOL


22 posted on 02/21/2020 7:20:38 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: boycott

He was Mayor of Carmel, California for about a decade. And he’s one hell of a director too. He may have been (and is) a great actor, but he’s not very Hollywood and he knows his craft well. That is a major accomplishment in and of itself, and a lesson for all the snowflakes who think someone else is going to lift their bootstraps for them.


23 posted on 02/21/2020 7:23:07 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Zhang Fei

Guess Clint hasn’t been invited to WH lately nor received the civilian “Metal of Honer “ award yet! Ya know the Holywood (not misspelled) types...real disappointed in Eastwood if the quote is factual...looking for a disclaimer ASAP!


24 posted on 02/21/2020 7:28:03 PM PST by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Left go to to town on calling people names and worse. No one cares. Trump tweets and tweaks and they get their panties in a bunch: “Oh noes! Why can’t he just be more genteel???”

We had genteel under Reagan (who still managed to chide the Left) and the Bushes (who never dared) and it never made anyone to the right of them love us (or even them) any more. To wit: “ChimpyBushHitler.” “Get in their faces.” You know the rest.

To hell with that. Anyone who thinks _Trump_ should be more genteel needs to clean up their own act yesterday.


25 posted on 02/21/2020 7:36:25 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Zhang Fei

It’s like a scene from some movie: Guy reaches for a 20 oz Coca-Cola, and Bloomberg says (in his best Dirty Harry voice) “Go ahead. Make my day!”


26 posted on 02/21/2020 7:37:03 PM PST by csn vinnie
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To: DoughtyOne

Trumps Twitter audience is larger than the combined audience of the MSM!


27 posted on 02/21/2020 7:41:06 PM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: DoughtyOne

This is just abuse of Eastwood for a reporter’s ego.

I agree.


28 posted on 02/21/2020 7:43:35 PM PST by Track9 (Air Force One should have red white and blue contrails. Troll city)
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To: Zhang Fei

This is not consistent with what Eastwood has said in the past. If he really supports Bloomberg, he has joined Biden in the dementia pool.


29 posted on 02/21/2020 7:48:35 PM PST by Rocky
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To: BradyLS

President Trump speaks directly to the blue collar working person when he tweets. They are the ones who built his buildings. He learned how to speak to them and knows what it takes to motivate them.


30 posted on 02/21/2020 7:50:18 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.”

i seriously doubt that’s a legitimate quote, but if it is, then Eastwood is finally going senile ...


31 posted on 02/21/2020 7:50:46 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: boycott

“That’s all he’s pretty much ever been.”

uh, eastwood has been an amazingly brilliant movie director, movie producer, and music writer for several decades now ...


32 posted on 02/21/2020 7:52:52 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: DarthVader

“”I doubt the validity of this story!””

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The author...

In 2000, Varadarajan joined the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, under its editor, Robert L. Bartley. He worked there as a senior editorial writer, deputy editorial features editor, chief television and media critics, and, for five years, as the paper’s editorial features (”op-ed”) editor (a post to which he was appointed by the paper’s editorial page editor, Paul A. Gigot.)

In 2007, he served briefly as assistant managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, before joining New York University’s Stern School of Business as a clinical professor. He was, concurrently, executive editor for opinions at Forbes Magazine, where he radically revamped the opinion section of Forbes.com.

In 2009, Varadarajan left Forbes for The Daily Beast, where he was appointed writer-at-large, tasked with writing opinion columns on politics, foreign affairs, and American culture.

When Newsweek merged with The Daily Beast in December 2010, Varadarajan was named editor of Newsweek International by editor-in-chief Tina Brown. In December 2012, he became the first editor of Newsweek Global, the all-digital publication that took the place of the magazine’s print edition. He resigned from that job in late April 2013.

Varadarajan has been associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for several years, most recently as the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Research Fellow in Journalism. He is the editor of Defining Ideas, a Hoover Institution publication.[5]

He has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism; and the Department of Journalism at New York University, where he is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar.

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It would appear that you just might be correct.

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33 posted on 02/21/2020 7:52:56 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: monkeyshine

He’s also a very good blues pianist.


34 posted on 02/21/2020 7:53:50 PM PST by foxfield (When the going gets tough, the tough get going!)
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To: waterhill

35 posted on 02/21/2020 7:56:12 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Zhang Fei

Shut up and act?


36 posted on 02/21/2020 8:07:17 PM PST by oincobx
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To: Zhang Fei

empty chair, meet empty suit.


37 posted on 02/21/2020 8:07:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Zhang Fei
Hmmm... Know that Clint is just three years older than me so I'm hoping this was BS and he's not going 'silly' like other famous conservatives have... Think Barry Goldwater....
38 posted on 02/21/2020 8:10:43 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: boycott
But I have never overly concerned myself with what Hollywood thinks.

You mean Hollyweird can actually THINK?

39 posted on 02/21/2020 8:19:06 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I sure hope you’re right.


40 posted on 02/21/2020 8:19:32 PM PST by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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