June 9, 2016
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Roseanne Barr, who has revealed that she endorses Donald Trump for President
You’ve said that Americans can have whatever we want
politically — I’m paraphrasing — if we just participate in the process.
And it’s true that new groups are participating more in the process,
sometimes violently.
I think we would be so lucky if Trump won. Because then it wouldn’t be Hillary.
What’s your take on Hillary? What do you think is wrong with her?
You don’t know?! Well, she hangs out with [President] Bush. Do you need more than that? She’s friends with everybody that gives her any goddamned money. The fact is, you don’t get to be the nominee without taking a lot of dirty money. You might be the best f—in’ person on earth, but if you’re hanging out with criminals who do bad things, that matters a lot.
That’s why I ran, because no, I don’t hang out with criminals and I don’t take their money and I’m not paid to help sell nuclear weapons. I like Trump because he financed his own [campaign]. That’s the only way he could’ve gotten that nomination. Because nobody wants a president who isn’t from Yale and Harvard and in the club. ‘Cause it’s all about distribution. When you’re in the club, you’ve got people that you sell to. That’s how money changes hands, that’s how business works. If you’ve got friends there, they scratch your back and blah, blah … But Americans don’t even know that much, even though they say they do. They say they believe that people should take money out of politics and then, you know, they send their paycheck to Bernie and off he goes to hang out with the pope on a private jet on that money. The f—in’ Pope, are you shittin’ me?! And nobody just gives you money, they’re not like, ‘Here’s three million, you look good, your hair is nice.’ No. It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m giving you this money so you can pimp my products when it comes time.’
And … what’s the problem with the pope?
He owns almost every dollar in the world, that guy. So I thought you weren’t supposed to make a big profit if you’re in the helpin’ people business. That kind of speaks ill of you. When you got billions in profits for helping people and they’re starvin’ and shit, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Fact is what matters. Not what people say, not the money they take but what they do. And what Hillary does is the opposite of what she says, just like all of ’em. Where are the women’s rights? She talks about women’s rights, but I’m not sure that she acts in that interest.
Will Trump act in people’s interest?
To me, he’s saying that the order of law matters. When a president can just pass laws all on his own, that is a little bit different than what America was supposed to be about. And Trump is saying people will have to be vetted, we’ll have to have legal immigration. It’s all a scam. I mean, illegal immigration. When people come here and they get a lot of benefits that our own veterans don’t get. What’s up with that?
Was running for president a disappointment?
Hell no! They legalized pot in Colorado. I was on the Colorado ballot. So I was really thrilled with that. I was a Green and I got the Green Party on the Hawaiian state ballot. So I feel like I accomplished a lot just for me and on behalf of the tax-paying public, which I felt I was trying to represent ’cause I’m one of them, especially farmers. And also artists and writers.
What about women? Feminism is often associated with you.
You wonder if you should even use the F word anymore. And maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe we should just let it go because a new word is needed and always in a revolution you need to update. You can’t use dusty old terms that have lost their meaning and become co-opted and a canned rhetoric. It’s time for a new word and it’ll come ’cause it always comes when it’s most needed.
What’s your take on Hillary? What do you think is wrong with her?
You don’t know?! Well, she hangs out with [President] Bush. Do you need more than that? She’s friends with everybody that gives her any goddamned money. The fact is, you don’t get to be the nominee without taking a lot of dirty money. You might be the best f—in’ person on earth, but if you’re hanging out with criminals who do bad things, that matters a lot.
That’s why I ran, because no, I don’t hang out with criminals and I don’t take their money and I’m not paid to help sell nuclear weapons. I like Trump because he financed his own [campaign]. That’s the only way he could’ve gotten that nomination. Because nobody wants a president who isn’t from Yale and Harvard and in the club. ‘Cause it’s all about distribution. When you’re in the club, you’ve got people that you sell to. That’s how money changes hands, that’s how business works. If you’ve got friends there, they scratch your back and blah, blah … But Americans don’t even know that much, even though they say they do. They say they believe that people should take money out of politics and then, you know, they send their paycheck to Bernie and off he goes to hang out with the pope on a private jet on that money. The f—in’ Pope, are you shittin’ me?! And nobody just gives you money, they’re not like, ‘Here’s three million, you look good, your hair is nice.’ No. It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m giving you this money so you can pimp my products when it comes time.’
And … what’s the problem with the pope?
He owns almost every dollar in the world, that guy. So I thought you weren’t supposed to make a big profit if you’re in the helpin’ people business. That kind of speaks ill of you. When you got billions in profits for helping people and they’re starvin’ and shit, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Fact is what matters. Not what people say, not the money they take but what they do. And what Hillary does is the opposite of what she says, just like all of ’em. Where are the women’s rights? She talks about women’s rights, but I’m not sure that she acts in that interest.
Will Trump act in people’s interest?
To me, he’s saying that the order of law matters. When a president can just pass laws all on his own, that is a little bit different than what America was supposed to be about. And Trump is saying people will have to be vetted, we’ll have to have legal immigration. It’s all a scam. I mean, illegal immigration. When people come here and they get a lot of benefits that our own veterans don’t get. What’s up with that?
Was running for president a disappointment?
Hell no! They legalized pot in Colorado. I was on the Colorado ballot. So I was really thrilled with that. I was a Green and I got the Green Party on the Hawaiian state ballot. So I feel like I accomplished a lot just for me and on behalf of the tax-paying public, which I felt I was trying to represent ’cause I’m one of them, especially farmers. And also artists and writers.
What about women? Feminism is often associated with you.
You wonder if you should even use the F word anymore. And maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe we should just let it go because a new word is needed and always in a revolution you need to update. You can’t use dusty old terms that have lost their meaning and become co-opted and a canned rhetoric. It’s time for a new word and it’ll come ’cause it always comes when it’s most needed.
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