{"id":504336,"date":"2026-02-28T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:27:10","slug":"oscar-winner-88-unleashes-profane-trump-takedown-on-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504336\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Winner, 88, Unleashes Profane Trump Takedown on Live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most famous voice in Hollywood used it to loudly denounce Trump on MS Now.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan I use any profanity?\u201d Morgan Freeman asked The Last Word host Lawrence O\u2019Donnell when prompted for his thoughts on the current state of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say whatever you want,\u201d O\u2019Donnell, 74, replied. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we have somebody in the White House who is leading us down a s–thole,\u201d the Oscar winner declared on the live TV show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MorganWhile discussing his upcoming Amazon Prime miniseries, Freeman used his iconic Hollywood voice to launch an expletive-filled rant about President Trump. Courtesy MS NOW <\/p>\n

Freeman, 88, who appeared on the MS Now show to discuss an upcoming Amazon Prime miniseries he produced, delivered his own State of the Union address four days after President Trump\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t personally understand how a convicted felon\u2014convicted\u2014gets to be president. How do you do that?” the actor said in his trademark booming voice.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentSix months before he became president, then-former President Trump was convicted of 34 counts of first degree felony falsifying business records. Julia Nikhinson-Pool\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

In May 2024, President Trump, 79, was convicted on 34 counts<\/a> of felony falsifying business records. Trump would be elected president six months later, despite the first-degree verdicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say, \u2018Well, he was…\u2019 I don\u2019t care! That ruling went down before he stepped into the Oval Office, so it just doesn\u2019t make sense to me,\u201d Freeman said.<\/p>\n

The last time the Shawshank Redemption actor appeared on the program, he read a posthumous New York Times essay<\/a> by the late civil rights activist John Lewis. This time around, Freeman lamented how greatly the country has changed in the six years since the congressman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935, what was happening there,\u201d Freeman said. <\/p>\n

\"MorganFreeman compared Trump’s second term to Nazi Germany, and ICE to Hitler’s Gestapo police. Jerod Harris\/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery <\/p>\n

Freeman described what he saw as a backsliding of the U.S., towards a dark period in world history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brownshirts, those people that are marching through\u2014particularly Berlin\u2014and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars, and sending them off. Now, this administration wants to build large detention centers. And for what?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Million Dollar Baby actor agreed that young people were experiencing one of the \u201cworst\u201d times in the country\u2019s history, certainly in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

\"MorganFreeman agreed that Trump’s second presidential term was the “worst” the country would have ever been in a young person’s life this century. Castle Rock Entertainment\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely. Absolutely the worst,\u201d he said, before offering one piece of advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what I would say to young people other than, if you are aware of where we are right now, and where we\u2019re headed, and if you don\u2019t agree with it, there is one true way to change the direction of our country: vote,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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