On Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” left-leaning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore offered advice to former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).
Appearing alongside Rep. Teri Sewell (D-Alabama), Moore told MSNBC host Ari Melber that he viewed what Trump and Vance were saying on the campaign trail as comedy, but suggested the two men should leave comedy to other ethnicities.
“[T]The joy, the enthusiasm that exploded across the country, and they keep writing, he and Vance keep writing, and they think it’s comedy. I mean, I was watching and it was weird, and I was thinking, do they know what they’re talking about or is this unintentional comedy? I thought, “Hey, Trump, leave the comedy to the Irish and the Jews and the African-Americans. This is not your forte. But you know, it’s not funny. And sometimes you laugh so you don’t cry. I think that’s the dangerous thing about him. And let’s be honest, he went out there trying to say those things to reach his base, but it’s his base that he’s watching.”
“Look at the statistics. 30 percent of the voters in November are white men. That’s it, 30 percent. And 35 to 40 percent of them will vote Democrat, vote for Kamala Harris. That’s the world he lives in now. And what he and some of his supporters don’t understand is that 42 percent of the American people are now people of color, 42 percent. 51 percent are women. And 18 to 39 years old, that’s another 42 percent. What is the plan for winning here when they don’t understand that the country has changed? The country has changed.
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