Remember when the most politically controversial thingĀ Clint EastwoodĀ did was talk to a chair? The actor and his son, actorĀ Scott Eastwood,Ā sat down for an Esquire interviewĀ and comments the elder Eastwood made regarding politics,Ā Donald TrumpĀ and the state of race relations have stirred a social media storm.
"Weāre really in a (expletive)Ā generation. Everybodyās walking on eggshells," Eastwood said. "We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things werenāt called racist."
Eastwood was born in 1930, more than three decades before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 10 years after women were granted the right to vote in the United States.
While he said he hasn't endorsed a political candidate, Eastwood, who held a conversation with an empty chair at the 2012 Republican National Convention, struck a note of praise for GOP contender Donald Trump.
"Heās onto something, because secretly everybodyās getting tired of political correctness, kissing up," Eastwood said. "What Trump is onto is heās just saying whatās on his mind. And sometimes itās not so good. And sometimes itās ⦠I mean, I can understand where heās coming from, but I donāt always agree with it."
He referred to Trumpās comments aboutĀ a judgeās Mexican heritage, saying, "Heās said a lot of dumb things. So have all of them. Both sides. But everybodyāthe press and everybodyās going, 'Oh, well, thatās racist,' and theyāre making a big hoodoo out of it. Just (expletive)Ā get over it. Itās a sad time in history."
That and his comment about how things were back in his day sparked some heated commentary on Twitter:
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