Dennis Quaid is calling out the \u201cdouble standard\u201d in Hollywood when it comes to support for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s either \u2018F Trump\u2019 from the other side or \u2018I love Trump\u2019 from a few of us who speak about it,\u201d he told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cOf course, there\u2019s a double standard, but there\u2019s a double standard on everything. You\u2019ve got common sense, and then you\u2019ve got like some kind of whipped-up scenario where, you know, it might be true, you know, that I could compete in women\u2019s sports or, you know, that I could, whatever, vote twice or whatever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quaid said\u00a0he had been speaking\u00a0to the president recently about his new movie,\u00a0\u201cWar Machine,\u201d\u00a0which was released exclusively on Netflix earlier this month. Alan Ritchson costars in the action\/sci-fi film.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018What do you got coming out?\u2019 I said, \u2018War Machine.\u2019 He went, \u2018Oh yeah, I can\u2019t wait to see that. We need that kind of movie. What\u2019s it about?\u2019 I said, \u2018It\u2019s aliens versus humans.\u2019 He said, \u2018You know I\u2019m going to release the file,\u2019\u201d he laughed. \u201cSo, we may have a prequel by the time he does it, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quaid called flying with Trump on\u00a0Air Force One\u00a0\u201cfantasy camp.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt was pretty amazing,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s everything you really kind of thought it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n The 71-year-old said the president\u2019s plane has a room similar to what\u2019s depicted in every action movie: \u201cWith the, you know, the military guys, they\u2019re at their radar screens or whatever. The nuclear football\u2019s just sitting there, and it was something else.\u201d<\/p>\n Dennis Quaid appears next to President Donald Trump during an event at the Port of Corpus Christi on Feb. 27, 2026. AP<\/p>\n \u201cThe Parent Trap\u201d star said that he was with the president before the US launched coordinated strikes<\/a> against Iran late last month, complimenting his \u201cpoker face.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the president was talking about, \u201c\u2018What are we going to do about Iran, you know?\u2019 He didn\u2019t want to do it. And you could tell that it weighed heavy on his heart, because he knew sending any of our service people into harm\u2019s way, it\u2019s probably the biggest, hardest decision that I think the President of the United States could make. And it weighed heavy on him, but, you know, he had quite a poker face at the same time because he wasn\u2019t really giving anything away, but you could feel his heart. That\u2019s what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n Riding on the plane felt like going back to the 1990s, Quaid said.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything is exactly the same,\u201d he revealed. Bush One got the plane, I think, for a month and Clinton used it. I mean, you could remember the classic photographs even from back then, like [former President George W.] Bush being on the plane from, you know, when 9\/11 happened. And everything is perfectly well taken care of, but that plane is old.\u201d<\/p>\n Dennis Quaid sits next to President Donald Trump during a flight aboard Air Force One on Feb. 27, 2026. Dennis Quaid \/ X<\/p>\n Quaid said\u00a0he had been speaking\u00a0to the president recently about his new movie,\u00a0\u201cWar Machine.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n He added,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get him a new one. Not for, just for Trump, but for, you know, the next one, because it\u2019s 30 years old. Seemed like my Bonanza had better avionics than it did, more up to date. I\u2019m sure they have a few hidden things in there, but you know.\u201d<\/p>\n The royal family of Qatar is gifting the US government a luxury Boeing 747 that Trump plans to use as Air Force One, but after he leaves office, it will transfer to his presidential library.<\/p>\n Turning to his new movie, \u201cWar Machine,\u201d Quaid said he was drawn to the story because \u201cit felt like a really kind of old-time movie, you know, like \u2018Rambo\u2019 and the really classic, really great kind of movies of the \u201880s.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe needed a movie like this to come along, and it really does deliver. It really does,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n He was also drawn to the film because of Alan Ritchson.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a great star, you know, you like to watch him, he\u2019s in great shape, and he can do all that action stuff, and you believe it,\u201d Quaid said. \u201cPatrick Hughes, who plays the helicopter pilot at the end, by the way, he was a great director, and he was like a kid in a candy store doing this movie. Made it really a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Quaid said he was \u201cvery grateful\u201d that he got to play a general who never got his uniform dirty while Ritchson was in the trenches.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been there before,\u201d he explained. \u201cThere was a period of my time where, you know, it\u2019d be like three o\u2019clock in the morning, and I\u2019m up to my neck in mud in Slovakia, you know, acting to three tennis balls on a stick that\u2019s supposed to be the dragon that\u2019s flying in to like fire me up.\u201d<\/p>\n When telling military stories, Quaid said it\u2019s important to \u201cget it right.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt least I want it to feel right, and, you know, I was never in the service, and I really respect those who were,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I turned 18, that was like the year they went to the volunteer army. . . . But I really have a lot of\u00a0respect for our military\u00a0and what they do for all of us. You know, it\u2019s amazing what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n Dennis Quaid attends the \u201cTwin Towers: Legacy\u201d New York screening on Sept. 3, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n Dennis Quaid participates in a protest in Pacific Palisades, California on Jan. 6, 2026. London Entertainment for NY Post<\/p>\n Quaid said he wanted to make a movie that service members would want to watch.<\/p>\n \u201cThe older you get, the more you don\u2019t take things for granted so much, I think, about how good we really have it here,\u201d Quaid said\u00a0about patriotism.\u00a0\u201cAlso, the older I get, the more I\u2019ve traveled, the more I know, and stuff, how rare what we have here in the United States is. It\u2019s such a good thing. It is the wonder of the world what we\u2019ve got here.\u201d<\/p>\n Quaid added that he loves his career more now than he did in his 20s and 30s, \u201cbecause I\u2019m not trying to like, you know, be somebody or, you know, get awards or this or that \u2026 I\u2019m doing things because I really love to do them. And that makes it so much fun. And especially when you have fire in your belly to do it, you know, it\u2019s just a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n He said at this point, he continues to act for his \u201cown enjoyment, not for something that I\u2019m going to achieve or whatever. I love acting, and I love it more than ever and the older you get, the kind of really kind of better the parts to tell you the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n In a podcast interview earlier this month, Quaid talked about how 1998\u2019s \u201cThe Parent Trap\u201d with Lindsay Lohan<\/a> gave him a \u201cwhole other career.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was playing bad boys and stuff like that,\u201d he said, until the \u201890s when he went to rehab, which he jokingly referred to as \u201ccocaine school.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen\u00a0I had kids of my own,\u201d he added. \u201cThen along comes \u2018Parent Trap\u2019 and,\u00a0you know, it just kind of changed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n