After a politically charged week, Michael Douglas visited Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump‘s victory.
As the 2x Oscar winner appeared Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher, he expressed his disappointment at the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, but offered his own personal silver lining.
“The other thing I just have to share, after Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, [I’m] just so pissed at this razor-thin race,” he told Maher. “It was gonna be so close, with all these polls … and it’s a wipeout. I had no idea how that could happen. So, I go down Wednesday morning to play golf just to clear my mind. I go play nine holes, and I get a hole-in-one.”
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Referencing inflation and the death of the middle class, Douglas later said, “The very fact now that we can talk about Republicans as being the party for the people, and we are this elitist party on the left, Democrats, is wild.”
Douglas previously produced and appeared in this summer’s documentary America’s Burning, which unpacks the country’s economic divide.
After portraying Benjamin Franklin in this year’s Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin, Douglas also guessed how the Founding Father would have reacted to the latest election. “Oh, I think he’d have another drink,” he said.
Trump defeated Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election, becoming the 47th president of the United States, after previously serving a term as the 45th and losing re-election to President Joe Biden. The victory makes him the first felon and oldest person to be elected president at 78.