Sarah Silverman can’t help herself. In her new series “I Love You, America,” the comedian tries to escape her “liberal bubble” and engage with regular Americans by traveling around the country talking to conservatives and people of faith.
Despite her exposure to flyover country, however, Silverman still can’t tolerate President Trump.
In a new interview in the Guardian, Silverman summer up her feelings:
I look at Trump and the billionaire oligarchs he surrounds himself with as addicts. I do believe they are addicted to wealth, and that wealth addiction is no different from crack addiction. It fills an empty void. They will sell their grandmothers. They’re literally selling our entire country’s health for more.
I remember Garry Shandling saying in 2007 that when we put people in office who are addicted to money and power, we might as well be giving a bunch of cokeheads a mountain of cocaine and saying, "Divide this equally among your people." I see it proven true every day. And we’ve raised an entire generation to worship money at any cost, no matter how it’s made.
“He’s the only person I’ve ever blocked [on Twitter],” Silverman said. “So I can see him, but he can’t see me. Well,” she adds, “unless he logs out and logs back in again.”
Silverman has a new stand-up special “A Speck of Dust” on Netflix and a role in tennis movie “Battle of the Sexes.” The Guardian notes that Silverman “has combined anti-depressants with years of therapy and seems more positive, and determined to move beyond her ‘liberal bubble' to get to understand Trump’s America.”
Such understanding might begin by not trashing the man millions of regular Americans voted for.
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