Michael Moore, acclaimed documentary filmmaker and devout liberal, made comments to an audience suggesting he was actually supporting Trump. And the statements came as a surprise to...well, everyone.
Moore made the remarks at a promotional event in Ohio for his new documentary, "Michael Moore in TrumpLand," a film consisting of “ribbing Trump and his supporters” along with “humanizing and contextualizing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton,” according to a review on Consequence of Sound.
So naturally, Moore’s comments at his event left many perplexed. In the nearly four-minute video, which is clearly taken out of context, Moore seems like he's making the case for a Trump presidency, with statements like, “On November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it’s you’re right! Trump’s election is going to be the biggest f*** you ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good.”
Conservatives have seized on the blub in the otherwise pro-Clinton film, even while Moore himself insisted the film is adamantly anti-Trump. The remarks were even tweeted by Donald Trump Jr.:
View the transcript along with the video below to judge for yourself:
MICHAEL MOORE: I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they don't necessarily like him that much, and they don't necessarily agree with him. They're not racist or rednecks, they're actually pretty decent people, and so after talking to a number of them I wanted to write this:
'Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of Ford Motor executives and said, "if you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody's going to buy them."
It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives, and it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- the "Brexit" states.
You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about. Whether Trump means it or not, is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting, and that's why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for. The human hand grande that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.
And on November 8, Election Day, although they lost their jobs, although they've been foreclose on by the bank, and next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone, the car's been repoed, they haven't had a real vacation in years, they're stuck with the shi**y Obamacare Bronze Plan where you can't even get a f***ing Percocet. They've essentially lost everything they had, except one thing -- the one thing that doesn't cost them a cent, and is guaranteed to them by the American constitution: the right to vote.
They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be f***ed over and f***ed up it doesn't matter, because it's equalized on that day - a millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job: one.
And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
So on November 8, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen and put a big f***ing X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J. Trump.
They see that the elite who ruined their lives hate Trump. Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump, after they loved him and created him, and now hate.
Thank you media: the enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for on November 8.
Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right. Trump's election is going to be the biggest f*** you ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good.
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