Actor Alec Baldwin spoke with the Hollywood Reporter last night at the CLIO awards in New York City and shared his thoughts on the 2016 presidential campaign. He was particularly forthcoming about Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican front runner Donald Trump.
"Every single person, Democrat or Republican, you never hear them talk about peace — like peace is a naive idea," he told THR. "They're all bullshit warmongering — Hillary [Clinton], Trump, everyone of them. And that's tragic. That's the biggest tragedy of the race."
Concerning the presidential election Baldwin said, "I think there's a lot of people in that game, and it's all going to change after the first of the year [of campaigning] so we'll see what happens. I don't take any of it seriously now. Between now and the spring is an eternity — a lot of people will drop out."
As for specific candidates, Baldwin doesn't see Trump as a serious. "I doubt [public support] will go to Trump," he explained. "I think that Trump is a person who's been a very successful man in some ways, but whether that translates into authoring, or shepherding — because very often the president is not the author of his policy, but he's certainly the frontman or frontwoman, as the case may be — whether that translates [with] Trump's skills, I don't know."
And Baldwin doesn't like the idea of government being run like a business. "The government certainly needs to be run in a more businesslike fashion, but you can never run the government like a business. Business are for-profit, ... whereas the government is to be run to do the most good for the most people. You don't see that happening now."
