Jon Voight is a right-wing nutter. People always seem to forget that when they try to throw it in Angelina Jolie’s face that she has a strained-to-non-existent relationship with her dad. Her father is a Trump supporter, so much so that he actually weeps when talking about Trump’s greatness, I sh-t you not. Voight loathed Barack Obama with every fiber of his being, just as Voight despises all Democrats and thinks they’re pulling lies out of thin air to discredit Donald Trump. Voight chatted with Fox News’ Life, Liberty & Levin show on Sunday and these video clips are a trip. A very scary trip, wherein we can see the heart of Trump supporters: ignorant, vile and delusional.
The clip where he cries about Trump actually upsets me more than the part where he claims, “He is one-by-one picking out the stuff of the weeds, and they are the weeds, and this is their dying breath they have to stop him right now. So that’s what they do, conjuring lies and slanders.” I somewhat understand the delusional see-no-evil Republicans who merely have their blinders on because they agree with Trump about most things and they’re using this vile man for their own purposes. It’s awful but I understand it logically, the transactional nature of why most Republicans still support Trump. What I don’t understand is how anyone can be a true-believer at this point. I don’t understand the people like Voight, who actually WEEP because they’re so moved by Trump’s unhinged leadership of this country.
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I mean he really is a piece of work isn’t he?. I can see why Angelina keeps her distance with him.
Yep. It’s for the best. He’s definitely a great example of a relative you want to see and talk to as infrequently as possible.
Poor Angie, she has a nutcase for a father and a nutcase for a husband. She needs to free herself from them as soon as possible.
I don’t feel like Brad is a nutcase at all–he apparently drank too often and too much, and there was an incident, but that’s all– otherwise, I feel he loves his children and was a good father to them all. The drinking does not make him a nutcase, and he has since got the help he needed to kick his habit. Ben Affleck drinks, is in rehab, and has children. I would consider the drinking to be a serious addiction, but that doesn’t make the person a nutcase. On the contrary, I like Brad otherwise, and he did something about his problem right away. I consider Angie more the “nut job” and I think she has several unresolved issues of her own she could probably work on.
I always wondered why Angelina disliked her own father. Now I see why.
WTF did I just watch?! Wtf?!
Good. Grief.
*fades away whilst facepalming into oblivion*
I just cannot wrap my head around this. Why Trump? Of all the Republicans leaders they could have gotten all cult like about why trump?
Just speaking for the crazies in my family – the seem to have been avid viewers of The Apprentice, and I think that’s what got them. They loved seeing him on tv, they loved all the music shout outs he used to get because he had money. He had such a big name in pop culture, that they just gravitated to him, even while failing to see he represents everything they claim to hate in celeb culture, big business etc. They think he is the most amazing business man to ever business, and he can fix the country by running it as a business. I don’t even try to argue with them anymore, it’s not worth my sanity.
Because he is openly racist like how they want to be.
This. The racist, bigoted xenophobic masses now know they are no longer alone. I have cut off all who continue to support Trump at this point. It truly is country or Trump.
As for Voight I always knew he was bad just not this delusional. IQ45 is all about himself
I think alot of these nutters see Trump as *their guy*. In their minds, he’s the first GOP nominee to ‘”stick up for” them. They have a very zero sum game view of the world and many are threatened by brown & black folks. Most of his hardcore fans are dripping with anger and resentment toward the left and center-left. So the fact Trump is so openly hostile and nasty toward non-supporters is a real plus. He makes them feel special. That’s my guess.
ETA: When Trump supporters say he is good for America they mean themselves. They honestly believe they’re the only Americans that count. They’re so disgustingly entitled. :/
He’s Batshit crazy.
Seems that way, yes. At least now I feel less guilty about very strongly disliking not just his character but also him as an actor on Ray Donovan. From the first episode on he has disgusted me to the degree that I skip all his parts and considered bailing on the whole series. Which would be sad because RD rocks. I wish they would get rid of this lunatic. I don’t normally react strongly to any actors but this one just gave off a very bad vibe and I guess now I know why.
I can’t believe this man spawned someone like Angelina Jolie.
well, he left the family when she was very young, so he didn’t have much influence on her.
THANK GAWD.
Sadly I think my parents, especially my father is the same. Still a believer like Voight and not just to push an agenda. He only watches Fox News or listens to Hannity or Limbaugh so he gets reinforcement and ideas planted in his head that Trump is a mere victim of the evil left. I haven’t talked politics with my parents since before the election and I used to regularly. I’ve made it clear I don’t want to hear anything they have to say about trump but I’m not sure they know to what extent I hate the man and everyone around him. And no I can’t just cut off my parents because they are my parents and I won’t let Donald Trump do that to my family. My father is not evil like him and the GOP but I believe all of this stems from hating the Clintons so much and voting for anyone but her and it has grown from there. Honestly I don’t think they have any idea of the extent of evil this man is because although they do watch Fox they don’t pay that much attention. They get the cliff notes and go from there. Ignorance is bliss. It will be interesting to see what happens, if anything, when they come this weekend to watch my oldest daughter and they see a list of democrats running here in my state on the fridge.
I hear you, my mom is the same. The delusion is real. We just dont talk about politics. Theyre not going to change my mind, I’m not going to change theirs. Her and my stepdad watch fox news all the time.
I have some neighbors like this. It’s tears of White joy that the country is no longer being run by a Black man.
Seriously, people like this need mental help. Immediately.
Jon, you poor weak-minded b*tch
Gee, why can’t actors stick to acting & stay out of politics 🙄 😉 see what I did there?
No, I don’t. Can you explain?
I’m not as upset by the weeping as I am about this: Voight says that he loves that Trump is rich enough to fund his own campaign and not be beholden to donors. Let’s put aside the fact that this is a lie because Trump is owned by the Kochs, Mercers, and Putin. And focus instead on what he is actually saying : Only filthy rich people should run for office in order to counter campaign finance interference. This is what he is literally saying. How about we just take all money out of it completely, let anybody that meets agreed-upon qualifications to run for public office, and require that they all be given equal, free airtime to express their views. Why is this not the preference of everybody? Well, we know why, and it has NOTHING to do with what’s best for the people of this country. Capitalism at it’s finest, y’all.
Yep Juls- indeed it is. Greed knows no bounds. 🙁
Thank you for that! I ABSOLUTELY AGREE!
Mickey Donovan is a better person than Jon Voight. My brain hurts.
Every in law in Eastern Oregon I have is a strong Trump supporter. Makes me cringe.
Fool.
So comforting when you see an actor you admired since you were a child…who have starred in some of the most vanguard movies regarding social issues…
(Coming Home/Conrack/Midnight Cowboy) and to find out decades later that he’s nothing but a bitter, mean, ignorant racist deplorable human being….
LaLa11-7: Jon used to be very much a leftist, and he even personally helped hide a group of leftist radicals called the “Weather Underground” (which my cousin was a member of) once the group accidentally set off a bomb in NYC, killing some people, and became fugitives wanted by the FBI. It’s shocking to me that he has changed this much, gone so far from one side of the political spectrum to the polar opposite one! Though overall the “Weather Underground” did not manage to change society, and are mainly known (when at all) for being social wanna-be revolutionaries who failed, and as criminals, they had a great deal of sympathy for civil rights activists like the Black Panthers and for women, and antipathy towards the police, and my cousin says that Jon had similar sympathies back then. How someone can completely alter their values, principles, morals and ideals so much during the course of one adulthood is alarming and astonishing to me. It makes me feel like he never did have much passion in the things he once supported (like caring for the poor, equality for all people, etc.) if he can now be weeping w joy over the “ethics” and actions of a demented, racist, misogynistic monster like 45.
I met my first Deplorables this weekend – I am Canadian and largely spend time with people who aren’t unhinged so I’ve been spared until now…and wow, I have no words. Racists, misogynists….made me so angry and sad because they seemed really sweet on the surface.
That’s what they do!! I live in Texas, which is their Mecca, and I meet people regularly who seem nice, rational, and reasonable. Then they feel a little bit comfortable with you, assume you think the same way they do, and start spewing the hate and the unhinged craziness. I know several people who consider themselves “good Christians” and would be SHOCKED if you called them racist, but they are, and they embrace political and social ideals that are the polar opposite of the actual tenets of Christianity. I am mistakenly assumed to be a Republican by another white person at least once or twice a month. I always tell them, “I miss Obama and was proud to vote for both Clintons” and watch the shock wash over them.
I weep when I realize how many diehard Trumpsters are still out there, and how many I actually know. No matter how hard I try, I cannot understand how Trump still has any supporters. What are they thinking?!
I weep when I remember that Trump is President.
That’s exactly what I was going to say! Everyone I really love wants to weep every day!
What a horrible old man.
He’s freaking nuts. Completely insane & toxic. It makes me sad that Angelina & her brother lost their mom so early. They clearly adored her. One good thing about having a crap parent like Jon Voight – I’m sure it’s made Angelina utterly focused and motivated to always do right by her children.
This man is a great actor &that’s awesome. However, he has proven himself a horrible parent and deplorable person.Frankly, no one cares what this old fart bag says about the President.
Is he off his meds? He can’t be this dumb!
Nothing surprises me anymore, in my family there are Trump supporters that are women of color, born in Mexico, first generation immigrants.
My brain just cannot process this situation.
Oh. But no tears for those who lost their lives on this day in 2001. I see.
what a complete wack job
That’s just embarassing.
Wow