Dennis Quaid Thinks Hollywood Has Gone Far Left, Calls Trump ‘Really Genuine’ With ‘A Lot of Energy’
Dennis Quaid thinks that American politics have gone too far to the left in recent years.
The actor, who portrayed President Ronald Reagan in the 2024 biopic “Reagan,” was interviewed on Pastor Greg Laurie’s “The Greg Laurie Show” earlier this week. Laurie proposed to Quaid, “Things have gone so extremely, so far left right now. I saw a podcast — it was Bill Maher and Dana Carvey, and I’m forgetting the other guy’s name — but anyway, I think it was Dana Carvey said, ‘I’ve told my friends in Hollywood I’m a Clinton Democrat, and some of them are calling me a Nazi now.’”
Quaid replied, “You can’t do that.”
The 71-year-old actor agreed that these days, being a Clinton Democrat is the “same thing as being a neo-con, on the right side or whatever. What used to be, you can’t be anymore.”
He doesn’t describe himself as a Republican, however “I’m a common-sense independent, myself, he said, although he leans “more conservative in my head.”
“I’m just for common sense, is really what I am,” said Quaid.
Laurie brought up the subject of the current president, describing Donald Trump as “very personable, incredibly funny, a good listener and surprisingly approachable person.”
Quaid agreed that Trump is “surprisingly approachable and very funny. And really genuine. He wouldn’t be president if he wasn’t genuine. The people who voted for him, they know that he has their best interests at heart, that he is a genuine person.”
“I’ve never seen anybody with that kind of energy,” Quaid continued. “People say that about me, but he’s really got a lot of energy.”
When Laurie asked if he has stayed in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House, Quaid said he did stay in the Queen’s bedroom across the way. Quaid related that they “serve instant coffee in the morning” in the White House, which “really puts things in perspective.” “Pretty bad coffee,” he observed, then said it was during the Clinton presidency, during which time he once spent a whole weekend with the president.
Quaid said that when he played Reagan, he tried to get “past the event, and get to the human of it,” such as portraying the former president’s facial nerve damage in addition to his walk.
“We’re going through a spiritual revolution,” Quaid later told Laurie. “I’m not talking Republican and Democrat,” he says about the spiritual shift in the country, “But I am talking about those two coming together.”
The actor, who portrayed President Ronald Reagan in the 2024 biopic “Reagan,” was interviewed on Pastor Greg Laurie’s “The Greg Laurie Show” earlier this week. Laurie proposed to Quaid, “Things have gone so extremely, so far left right now. I saw a podcast — it was Bill Maher and Dana Carvey, and I’m forgetting the other guy’s name — but anyway, I think it was Dana Carvey said, ‘I’ve told my friends in Hollywood I’m a Clinton Democrat, and some of them are calling me a Nazi now.’”
Quaid replied, “You can’t do that.”
The 71-year-old actor agreed that these days, being a Clinton Democrat is the “same thing as being a neo-con, on the right side or whatever. What used to be, you can’t be anymore.”
He doesn’t describe himself as a Republican, however “I’m a common-sense independent, myself, he said, although he leans “more conservative in my head.”
“I’m just for common sense, is really what I am,” said Quaid.
Laurie brought up the subject of the current president, describing Donald Trump as “very personable, incredibly funny, a good listener and surprisingly approachable person.”
Quaid agreed that Trump is “surprisingly approachable and very funny. And really genuine. He wouldn’t be president if he wasn’t genuine. The people who voted for him, they know that he has their best interests at heart, that he is a genuine person.”
“I’ve never seen anybody with that kind of energy,” Quaid continued. “People say that about me, but he’s really got a lot of energy.”
When Laurie asked if he has stayed in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House, Quaid said he did stay in the Queen’s bedroom across the way. Quaid related that they “serve instant coffee in the morning” in the White House, which “really puts things in perspective.” “Pretty bad coffee,” he observed, then said it was during the Clinton presidency, during which time he once spent a whole weekend with the president.
Quaid said that when he played Reagan, he tried to get “past the event, and get to the human of it,” such as portraying the former president’s facial nerve damage in addition to his walk.
“We’re going through a spiritual revolution,” Quaid later told Laurie. “I’m not talking Republican and Democrat,” he says about the spiritual shift in the country, “But I am talking about those two coming together.”