Actor Jeff Daniels is criticizing President Trump for sharing an AI-generated video appearing to show himself “spewing excrement all over” No Kings protesters.
“Do we really have to treat people like that?” the “Dumb and Dumber” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” star asked MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace during a Tuesday interview.
In the video he shared on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump is seen sporting a crown as he flies a plane, before dumping brown liquid on demonstrators.
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The AI clip was posted on the same day that millions of Americans demonstrated around the country as part of the No Kings Day protests.
“The meme that [Trump] had where he was flying with the crown and spewing excrement all over the people down below,” Daniels, 70, said.
“Would Lincoln have done that?” Daniels exclaimed.
“I don’t think Nixon would’ve done that,” Wallace replied.
“Nixon wouldn’t have done it. Reagan wouldn’t have done it. Bush wouldn’t have done it, either Bush.”
“I think people in the Midwest, where I am … we value our decency and our civility,” Daniels, who grew up in Michigan and founded a theater company in the Great Lake state, said.
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“We don’t get taken with whatever goes on on the coast. We got a chip on our shoulder about that.”
“Down the road, if [Trump] doesn’t deliver on the economy like he promised he would, then that stuff will start to add up. And they’ll get tired of it, and they’ll vote for change,” Daniels said.
Saying that every generation changes things, Daniels told Wallace that voters “wanted things to get solved economically. But I think when it comes to decency and civility and respect for the rule of law, which governs all of us, whether we’re left or right, will matter again.”
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Daniels also performed a song, “Crazy Blue,” on Wallace’s show that she described as a tune the Emmy Award-winning entertainer penned in response to the No Kings protest.
“This crazy world’s gone crazy. Who am I to judge?” Daniels sang as he strummed a guitar.
“Nice to know in the world full of hate, there’s someone out there still making love.”
