Filmmaker Michael Moore said on Thursday the joke is on Donald Trump, after the Republican nominee praised the progressive’s new movie that is actually an endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Moore told Fox News’ “Kelly File” the Trump campaign has “doctored” clips from “Trumpland” to make it look pro-Trump when in reality, the producer’s 73-minute one-man show is a poetic rant meant to incite support for the Democratic nominee.
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The clip that Trump and his supporters have shared over the past few days features Moore saying Americans will “feel good” after they vote for him on Nov. 8.
“First of all when I say doctored, they cut me off after I said ‘it will feel good after you vote for him.’ The next line is ‘for a day or for a week,'” Moore explained. “When you find out your life isn’t going to get any better under President Trump and will probably get worse, that’s what you’re going to find out.”
Kelly asked Moore if Trump was foolish for sharing the clip and whether his endorsing the movie was an error.
“No error. It’s either they’re dumb and I honestly don’t think they are,” Moore said. “They’re misleading people because they’re counting on people who are if the working class are so desperate and hurt that all they’ll do is hear those few words and not the rest of my paragraph.”
“I understand why you’re angry. You have every right to be angry. The system has failed you. But he is not the solution to this,” Moore added. “And I make the case in the film – the film is a humorous love poem to Hillary Clinton.”
Moore has not always been a Clinton supporter. During the primaries he backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders because Clinton had voted for the Iraq War and was “too cozy” with Wall Street.
But Moore has come around since the spring. He told Kelly the recent WikiLeaks disclosures do not bother him “at all.” He came around to Clinton because of her focus on other issues.
“I care about women should be paid the same as men. I care about the polar ice caps melting – the big big issues. Those are the ones you have to have the smart person in the room,” Moore said.
The outspoken filmmaker concluded that the film was a way to reach out to Trump supporters and help them redeem themselves.
“Racists are deplorable,” Moore said. “No human is irredeemable.”
