Marvel actor Samuel L. Jackson compared former President Donald Trump to a “redneck” and bashed the Republican Party.
The Secret Invasion star made the commentary during an interview with Rolling Stone to promote his new Disney+ show.
“When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me “n****r” and tried to keep me in my place,” Jackson told the outlet.
He also called out the GOP for treating anyone who does not identify as conservative as “the enemy.”
Samuel L. Jackson: “When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me 'n*****' and tried to keep me in my place." pic.twitter.com/M3GeKHqQsS
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“That’s what the Republican Party is to me. They’re doing it to young people, gay people,” he claimed.
“They don’t care who you are. If you’re not them, you’re the enemy.”
Jackson also alleged that society hasn’t changed much since he was growling up in the ’50s and ’60s.
“The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been,” he remarked.
“As a child of the Sixties, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators — and those were young white kids — I learned there’s a certain kind of thing that the powers that be don’t want us doing.”
He said that the 2020 George Floyd protests were reminiscent of the ones that occurred at the 1968 Democratic National Convention over the Vietnam War.
Jackson noted that those who have “powers” did whatever they could to prevent change from happening in both instances.
“That part has not changed. In my opinion, it’s kind of worse. They used to hide it. Now, they don’t hide it anymore,” he detailed.
“When I grew up in segregation, I knew which white people didn’t want to be bothered with me and I knew how they felt about me.”
The Snakes On A Plane star took another shot at conservatives, alluding that they were racists.
“I know how the Republicans feel about me now because of what my mindset is,” he alleged.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jackson spoke about how he bonded with frequent Marvel costar Brie Larson over their contempt for the 45th president, while they filmed 2017’s Kong: Skull Island.
“We had done Kong together, which was not the most wonderful experience for either of us,” he said about the movie and the election.
“We became great friends during that particular experience because we were having such a hard time.”
Jackson said that Larson was “broken” over the results of the 2016 Presidential Election while she was directing him in 2017 Netflix indie Unicorn Store.
“Then, we bonded through the election while we were doing her movie when Donald Trump won,” he recalled.
“She was broken, and I was like, “Don’t let ‘em break you. You have to be strong now,” Jackson concluded.
It's worth remembering that in 1996, Robert Downey, Jr. went to federal prison when police found him with heroin, cocaine, crack and a .357 Magnum. Why didn't he get a #hunterbidenpleadeal ? pic.twitter.com/r9wvIB3mZB
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Fellow Marvel star Robert Downey Jr. described a dark time during his life, but surprisingly didn’t blame Trump for it.
The 58-year-old Iron Man star described how he was “over-sentenced by an angry judge” for failing to appear at court-appointed drug tests for a cocaine possession charge in 1999.
Downey told actor Dax Shepard on his “Armchair Expert” podcast about how he was held in a receiving center with hardened criminals at North Kern State Prison in Delano, California after being sentenced to three years in jail.
Robert Downey Jr's mugshot in 1999. 🚓 pic.twitter.com/Y6PsjpjhwA
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“Arguably the most dangerous place I’ve ever been in my life because nobody is designated,” he stated. “If they’re a level 1, 2, 3 or 4 criminal, [everyone’s there]. You could just feel the evil in the air.”
“It was kind of like just being in a really bad neighborhood, and there was no opportunity there; there was only threats,” the actor recalled. “So, yes, everyone is going to take your wallet, so watch it.”
He described walking onto the prison yard for the first time as “being sent to a distant planet where there is no way home until the planets align.”
Downey only did one year of time out of his three year sentence, stemming a 1996 DUI while in possession of a gun and several hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and crack.