Jesus wouldn’t vote for Trump, according to actor Billy Baldwin’s ideology.
For Monday’s CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon invited Billy Baldwin on air to comment on his brother, Alec, mimicking Donald Trump during Saturday Night Live (SNL). During his appearance, Billy bashed Christians supporting Trump (because Jesus “was a radical liberal”) and went so far as to call Americans “narrow-minded” and “entitled.” When Lemon asked what separated him from Trump supporters, Baldwin pointed to “the respect and the gratitude.”
Baldwin began his insults when he mentioned yet another brother, Stephen, to Lemon.
“I get frustrated,” he admitted of his Republican brother who supports Trump. “I mean, if you're an uneducated white man and you’re sticking to your guns with Donald Trump, I get it.”
Stephen wasn’t the only person he was frustrated with this election.
“For women to be supporting him at this point and for Christians to be supporting him at this point,” he complained, and asked viewers to “look at the party that has protected and defended women,” minorities, the poor, the middle class and the LGBT community.
According to him, the Democrat party – or the liberal party – had Jesus on its side.
“If you take homosexuality and abortion, you remove those two planks and you look at the menagerie of issues in a – in a party platform, the – the agenda of compassion and the more Christ-like agenda, if you will, is the liberal agenda,” he argued.
In other words, Christians casting their votes for Trump exemplified “hypocrisy.”
“I mean, Jesus was not a liberal. Jesus was a radical liberal. And the fact that people are continuing down this path with Donald Trump is so disheartening to me,” he told Lemon. “The hypocrisy and the irony of that is not lost on me. I think it's really, really frustrating. People that have gone this deep with Trump that are – that are Christians, there’s just, it's – it’s there's no defense.”
Lemon pressed him to explain, “What do you mean when you say you can understand why uneducated white men are sticking with Trump?”
Baldwin defended himself by saying that Trump scored “high marks” with “white men that aren’t college educated.” “I—I can't really explain it,” he admitted, “because there's a lot of anger.”
As he searched for an answer, Baldwin defaulted to insulting Americans.
“I think that President Obama has done such a terrific job of shepherding us from where we were eight years ago to where we are today,” he said, “and I think that – I think that people a lot of times Americans are shortsighted, they’re narrow-minded, they’re easily frustrated, they’re entitled, they’re soft.”
“I just have such an abundance of gifts, and I just wish more people saw how fortunate we are and – and how lucky we are to be here now as Americans in 2016,” he concluded.
Again, Lemon prodded him, “What do you think the difference between you, then, and the folks who are supporting him, what is it? And you're a white male.”
Baldwin stuck to his former talking point about gratitude, or, rather, ungratefulness as the difference between him and Trump supporters:
I just don't think they – they – they have the appreciation and the respect and the gratitude for – and I’m not – even when you’re struggling, even when I was struggling, when I didn’t work for a couple years, I – I just woke up every day with a great appreciation and gratitude for the – just the bounty in my life with my wife and with my children. And, you know, I – I just never ever take that for granted. And I think Americans sort of have to toughen up and realize we've come a long way in the last eight years. And unfortunately, they – they bet on the wrong horse. During those debates, there were 16 Republicans. Everyone was an elected official except for Donald Trump. They – they put all their eggs in that basket and they bet on the wrong horse.
