Watch Megastar Kelsey Grammer Quietly Teach PBS Hack Why Trump Is Good for America
Kelsey Grammer of “Cheers” and “Frasier” fame is one of the highest-profile conservatives in Hollywood. (And he’s not currently locked out of his Twitter account, either.)
He’s also not exactly a NeverTrumper. During a recent interview on “Amanpour & Company” on PBS, he told host Christiane Amanpour exactly why he thought the president was good for both the country and for Washington.
Grammer was mostly on the show, which aired Tuesday, to talk about his role in “Man of La Mancha.”
However, Amanpour acknowledged that Grammer was unusual in that he was both an actor and a supporter of President Donald Trump.
“Can I ask you, Kelsey, because we were talking obviously about today’s politics and it’s very divisive, it’s very partisan, whether it’s in the United States, whether it’s here,” she said.
“You are one of those rare Hollywood beasts who is conservative, and you voted for Donald Trump. And I just wonder, what, whether you sort of took any hits in Hollywood for that? Did you feel that you were sort of marginalized?”
“I’m not aware of taking a hit for it but now, certainly passions run high, and certainly he has touched on an extraordinarily passionate response,” Grammer said.
“I don’t know if it’s as serious or horrible as everybody wants it to be.”
“I was wondering whether you thought that the sort of, many people believe this sort of fabric is being disrupted,” Amanpour said.
Instead of taking the bait, however, Grammer said he saw nothing wrong with that.
“Well, I think fabric being disrupted is a good thing,” Grammer said.
“You do?” Amanpour responded.
“Oh yeah. I do not think Washington was doing us any favors,” he said.
“For the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of just the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people,” Grammer added.
“That’s politics,” Amanpour interjected.
“And I don’t think they’ve been helping anybody but themselves,” Grammer said.
One of the things people don’t seem to understand is that Trump got elected because Americans were tired of politics as usual — particularly the politicians who practiced the dark arts of Washington power.
Christiane Amanpour, experienced journalist though she may be, doesn’t quite get why people would want to see the fabric disrupted.
That’s part of the problem — both in Washington and in Hollywood.
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