Comedian Roseanne Barr recently sat down The Hollywood Reporter to talk politics, pot and being a farmer. While the notorious funny woman has spoken out about politics in the past, this time she had a very specific message.
She told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published June 7:
“I think we would be so lucky if Trump won. Because then it wouldn’t be Hillary.”
When asked about her take on former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Barr, who says she’s fed up with the “f***ed up” two-party political system, said:
“Well, she [Hillary] hangs out with [President] Bush. Do you need more than that? She’s friends with everybody that gives her any goddamned money. The fact is, you don’t get to be the nominee without taking a lot of dirty money. You might be the best f—in’ person on earth, but if you’re hanging out with criminals who do bad things, that matters a lot.”
She went explain her reasoning for supporting Donald Trump (R-N.Y.):
“I like Trump because he financed his own [campaign]. That’s the only way he could’ve gotten that nomination. Because nobody wants a president who isn’t from Yale and Harvard and in the club. ‘Cause it’s all about distribution. When you’re in the club, you’ve got people that you sell to. That’s how money changes hands, that’s how business works. If you’ve got friends there, they scratch your back and blah, blah … But Americans don’t even know that much, even though they say they do.”
Barr even went on to call out Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) for supposedly using supporters’ money to fund his trip to visit the Pope:
“They say they believe that people should take money out of politics and then, you know, they send their paycheck to Bernie and off he goes to hang out with the pope on a private jet on that money. The f—in’ Pope, are you shittin’ me?! And nobody just gives you money, they’re not like, ‘Here’s three million, you look good, your hair is nice.’ No. It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m giving you this money so you can pimp my products when it comes time.”
She also had an interesting take on Trump’s affinity to the law. For a man who’s currently involved in several lawsuits, she seems to think he cares deeply about the legal system in this country.
“To me, he’s saying that the order of law matters. When a president can just pass laws all on his own, that is a little bit different than what America was supposed to be about. And Trump is saying people will have to be vetted, we’ll have to have legal immigration. It’s all a scam. I mean, illegal immigration. When people come here and they get a lot of benefits that our own veterans don’t get. What’s up with that?”
Back in 2015, Barr told Jimmy Kimmel she wished regular people would run for office, to which Kimmel jokingly responded, “what about Donald Trump?”
She responded, saying:
“He’s kind of irregular.”
Obviously, Barr has had a significant change of heart since 2015.
You can read the full interview with The Hollywood Reporter here, and watch that clip below, via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjDzjOY_HoE
Feature Image is a Screengrab Of Jimmy Kimmel Live via YouTube.
