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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Clint did not say that.
What he said has been bent, twisted and manipulated to hurt Donald. Like ALWAYS.
I do NOT believe it for ONE SECOND even.
we need to drive these liars OUT of journalism.
What else could they do for a living... I know, they could learn to write code... in stead of lies.
They would soon learn that lies, in code worlds, do not compile. do not build and cannot be successfully be deployed.
as a matter of fact that is exactly where the dems and the lying press are today... they do not compile, cannot build anything useful and fail to work whenever they attempt to deploy.
Yes he is a major liberturd!
Is it? I don’t pay attention, but I’m glad if it is.
Thanks Track9.
a quote attributed to CLint was this “IF you could reason with a liberal, there wouldn’t be any liberals”
He must not know very much about Bloomberg if he actually said that.
Barry Goldwater was my first thought.
Since it’s the WSJ, and I will look up the writer, I would prefer to hear what Clint Eastwood has to say directly.
When I see an “off” article by an unknown writer, I do a search. Here’s a bit of what I found, don’t have much time right now. Tunky is a weirdo...He hates Trump, and Indian nationalism.
Tunku Varadarajan@tunkuv
Executive Editor @HooverInst, Stanford/ Adjunct Prof
@NYU_journalism
/ Cricket fan, father, fogey/ Anti-Hindutva Hindu/ Non-nutty Libertarian/ Hala Madrid
Tunku Varadarajan is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and writer-at-large for The Daily Beast.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-turns-west-but-away-from-western-values-11558651907
India Turns West but Away From Western Values
The country’s first pro-American prime minister also stands for intolerant Hindu nationalism.
By Tunku Varadarajan
May 23, 2019 6:51 pm ET
I don’t believe it for a second. Lies.
Imvho, MOST of the so-called “media types” would be “out of their depth” in a mud puddle. = IF they got fired, a goodly percentage of media “talking heads” would be best employed in a position where they would routinely say, “Do you want fries with that?”
Yours, TMN78247
Imvho, MOST of the so-called “media types” would be “out of their depth” in a mud puddle. = IF they got fired, a goodly percentage of media “talking heads” would be best employed in a position where they would routinely say, “Do you want fries with that?”
Yours, TMN78247
Imvho, MOST of the so-called “media types” would be “out of their depth” in a mud puddle. = IF they got fired, a goodly percentage of media “talking heads” would be best employed in a position where they would routinely say, “Do you want fries with that?”
Yours, TMN78247
If he simply meant get Bloom in the dem’s race for a candidate to mix things up, that is one thing. If he meant get bloom in the White House, then Clint is nuts.
Fake News.
So did this forum reluctantly after he won the nomination
Trump is like a young Sandy Koufax. The hitter standing at the plate doesn’t know if the next pitch is going to be the deadliest, most un-hittable curve ball on the planet, or a bat-poop crazy wild pitch.
When you've got this urge to run for your life, it isn't conducive to
planning and attacking the ball. You're on your heels trying to survive.
Maybe the Leftists are in fear of having to run for their lives, and
are thus on their heels most of the time.
I love Clint Eastwood....but if he is serious in backing and supporting “Butt Wipe” Mike Bloomberg for POTUS....then sadly the great “Dirty Harry” has lost his marbles....SAD!!!
it’s being reported, without any further context, elsewhere; there’s a huge difference between whether what he says means in the race, or in the White house:
21 Feb: Twitchy: NEW: Libertarian Clint Eastwood endorses anti-gun-stop-and-frisk-sugar-cop Mike Bloomberg
by Greg P
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/02/21/new-libertarian-clint-eastwood-endorses-anti-gun-stop-and-frisk-sugar-cop-mike-bloomberg/
21 Feb: Newsmax: Wall Street Journal: Eastwood Likes Bloomberg for President
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bloombergeastwood/2020/02/21/id/955200/
21 Feb: Hollywood Reporter: Clint Eastwood Says Electing Michael Bloomberg Is “the Best Thing We Could Do”
by Katie Kilkenny
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/clint-eastwood-says-electing-michael-bloomberg-is-best-thing-we-could-do-1280579
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