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."
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I think he meant he would want Bloomberg to be the dem nominee possibly
Trump would walk all over Bloomie in a debate.
Trump tweeting is a brilliant idea
It’s the only way to get his ideas out there, the media won’t do it.
He has more followers then anyone else!
We get his ideas etc instantly with out the spin.
Very well said. Thank you.
I totally agree.
The Press (not just print media) have become the Press-titutes. They do it (propaganda) for the money.
Lies 24/7 paid for too often by foreign globalist currency.
They don’t just hate the USA, they hate the Truth, Honesty, Goodness, and everything the USA has always stood for.
Ephesians 6:12
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Drudge Report is Dead. I quit reading it long ago.
Bought like the rest.
100% Lies.
It doesn’t.
He might have said it with sarcasm a foot thick.
Yes. That is possible.
The statement about Clint Esstwood simply does not tie to the reality of his life.
It will eventually come out.
the writer, Tunku Varadarajan, also worked with Politico. he has a number of articles on their website:
July 2017: Politico: Donald Trump and the wrath of Khan
Terrorism, tweets and the souring of a special relationship
by Tunku Varadarajan
Tunku Varadarajan, a contributing editor at POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-and-the-wrath-of-khan/
Wikipedia: Tunku Varadarajan is an English writer and journalist, formerly editor of Newsweek Global and Newsweek International... and a contributing editor at POLITICO Europe...
In 2009, Varadarajan left Forbes for The Daily Beast...
A British citizen, Varadarajan lives in Brooklyn, USA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunku_Varadarajan
btw on Varadarajan’s twitter page, he is re-tweeting tweets presuming Eastwood is endorsing Bloomberg for President, without debunking them. latest tweet is mocking the President.
‘Parasite’ studio fires back after Trump criticism: ‘He can’t read’
Twitter: Tunku Varadarajan
https://twitter.com/tunkuv
important to get this around...and get the entire article:
Tweet: Hollywood Reporter 8h ago
Clint Eastwood is expressing some early support for Michael Bloomberg for president
reply
William 7h ago
If you read the WSJ article it’s the very last sentence of the article (I mean the very last sentence) and he just doesn’t like Trumps tweets. Other than that he praised him on policy.
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1231040311239028736
easier to read it here as it is directly under the H’wood Reporter tweet:
Tweet: Hollywood Reporter 8h ago
Clint Eastwood is expressing some early support for Michael Bloomberg for president
reply
William 7h ago
If you read the WSJ article it’s the very last sentence of the article (I mean the very last sentence) and he just doesn’t like Trumps tweets. Other than that he praised him on policy.
https://twitter.com/WilliaminCA/status/1231060336322547715
Yes. He is a Trump hater.
More Fake News.
Compost. They make good compost. Not kidding.
If Trump didn’t tweet and tweak the Leftists and Leftist policy, we would
NEVER know his opinion on things.
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.””
EXACTLY
At 89 years of age Eastwood’s “Bloomberg” statement could be signs of early onset Alzheimer’s.
Well Clint, America is at war with leftwing communists who are *that* close to completing their overthrow of our Constitutional Republic.
Trump is the pro-America street fighter America NEEDED.
A "genteel" country club Bush-republican would have surrendered by now.
or, more likely, fake news
This is why we all have to boycott all of Hollywood. Even the actors we think we like are victims of Hollywood groupthink.
Texas Fossil wrote:
“It doesn’t.
He might have said it with sarcasm a foot thick.”
Good point!
That media outlet needs to use sarcasm tags...
The problem with all of these articles is that it is based on the same single quote about Bloomberg being “in there” which could mean being in the race to have another option for democrat voters to consider or being in the White House. These liberals writing the articles are clearly spinning it as anti-Trump, which may be the exact opposite intent by Eastwood who otherwise speaks well of Trump.
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.”
Until I hear it direct from the lips of Eastwood, I view this as fantasy on part of the writer.
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