Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore broke his silence on the 2024 election Wednesday, slamming Americans who elected Donald Trump to a second term by a wide margin, calling them “not good people.”
In contrast, the progressive director and activist expressed complete confidence before the election, predicting that Mr. Trump would be “toasts” to Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If you stop and think about it, we've come up with a lot of crazy things throughout history,” he wrote. Posted by MichaelMoore.com. “Like the genocide of 20 million Native Americans. Or the enslavement of 12 million kidnapped Africans. Or we invaded Vietnam and killed 4 million Asians for no reason. We are not good people.”
After saying the United States has a “cleansing list of bad behavior that led us directly last week,” he went on to say that “a 34-time convicted felon, a fascist, and a civilly indicted and convicted sex offender… We chose our abusers to be our criminals,” he said, mocking his fellow countrymen. 47th President of the United States. ”
Mr. Moore's current feelings toward Americans are in stark contrast to his pre-election statements.
On November 3, two days before the election, he appeared on MSNBC and encouraged his fellow citizens: It's okay to disagree with each other, but that's the end of it. ”
Portraying Americans as generally easy-going people, the filmmaker continued: Half the time I was very happy with who won, and the other half of the time I didn't. And we move on with our lives. ”
On MSNBC, he confidently predicted that Trump is “toast” and said of Trump's supporters: ”
“I feel the same way I felt a few weeks ago that Mr. Trump is completely toast. I feel even more so now.”
“Democrats, they're a very scared bunch,” he scoffed to a CNN host in October. “So they still believe Trump will win.”
However, the director reprimanded the Democratic Party and the Harris campaign in a post-election critique on michaelmoore.com. “The next time the working class doesn't see our candidates campaigning with Wall Street billionaires, history may be kind to us.” Or we should look at campaigns celebrating what war criminals supported. ”
Moore concluded by calling for kindness, saying, “The first step to countering Trump's campaign of cruelty, hatred, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance, and fear is for each of us to be kind in our daily lives. That's it,” he concluded.
The director also asked his supporters to “please forgive someone.” Without naming names, he added: Because too much time has passed. Because it's the right thing to do. ”
