Clint Eastwood — Who Once Lectured Obama in 'Empty Chair' Speech at RNC — Now Backs Bloomberg Over Trump

Clint Eastwood has all the time leaned Republican in terms of his centrist politics, however in 2020 the actor and director has set his sights on Democratic hopeful Mike Bloomberg.

Eastwood, 89, opened up about his politics and his worldview in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, which ended with the Richard Jewell filmmaker saying: “The perfect thing we might do is simply get Mike Bloomberg in there.”

Although Eastwood admitted to the Journal in a narrative revealed Friday that he approves of “sure issues that Trump’s carried out,” he stated he wished Trump would lay off social media and restrain from using schoolyard name-calling on Twitter.

“I might personally like for him to not deliver himself to that degree,” Eastwood informed the Journal.

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Eastwood has used spectacle and Hollywood showmanship in his own political exercise earlier than — most famously (or infamously, depending) at the 2012 Republican National Conference. when he gave an improvised speech to an empty chair that was meant to represent then-President Barack Obama. Eastwood endorsed Mitt Romney towards Obama.

The Gran Torino star has additionally held political office earlier than, in the ’80s serving as a “nonpartisan” mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a small seashore city on the coast.

“I used to be a Republican, however individuals by no means considered their events besides on the national degree,” Eastwood informed the Journal about his experience because the city’s mayor for 2 years, beginning in 1986. “I drank a number of tea and chatted with individuals. I informed individuals ‘I’ll fix this, and I’ll repair that.’”

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Eastwood has traditionally backed Republican candidates on that national scale. In 2008, he supported the late Sen. John McCain in his race towards then-candidate Obama.

In a 2016 interview with Esquire, Eastwood stated he was going to select Trump over 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“That’s a troublesome one, isn’t it? I’d should go for Trump,” he advised the magazine on the time. “’s declared that she’s gonna comply with in Obama’s footsteps.”

He stated then although that “there’s been simply an excessive amount of funny enterprise on each side of the aisle.”

Eastwood is the newest in Bloomberg’s melange of A-list endorsements.

 

In January, Decide Judy Sheindlin backed the former three-term New York Metropolis mayor and defended the wealth he built together with his eponymous business and information company as an accomplishment quite than a criticism.

“Wealthy is simply tangentially what occurs from the result of being sensible,” she told PEOPLE in early January.

A couple of weeks later, Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas formally joined his supporters, together with designer Tim Gunn.

“The truth that he doesn’t need individuals to pay for his campaign signifies that he doesn’t owe anyone,” Douglas told PEOPLE in January. “Do I hope ultimately that cash in political campaigns will turn into a thing of the previous? Definitely. I feel Mike can be one of many first ones to say that.”

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