Actor and producer Brad Pitt thinks that frustrated Americans might be supporting Donald Trump because something about the brash candidate “hooks into the DNA.”
“It seems that the people who suffer the most end up betting for the party that would hurt them,” Pitt said in a New York Times’ T Magazine interview published Wednesday. “And so I try to understand where they’re coming from.”
“Most Americans don’t have time to watch CNN and Fox and Al Jazeera,” he said. “They’re trying to make the rent, get the kids fed, they’re tired when they get home and they want to forget about everything. And so suddenly when this voice comes in — and it doesn’t have to be a voice of substance — saying he’s fed up with all of this, that’s the part that hooks into the DNA.”
Pitt added that he never expected the “Brexit” to become a reality in June of this year, in the “[s]ame way I can’t bring myself to think that Trump will be in charge.”
But Pitt said that because he is from Oklahoma, which should be Trump territory in the general election, he is putting forth an effort into understanding what it is about the New York businessman that appeals to voters.
“Coming from Oklahoma, southern Missouri, which leans more toward a Trump voice, I try to understand it,” he said.
Pitt told voters last year, “Don’t be so emotional.”
“Don’t see the world from our own backyard,” he told the New York Daily News. “Understand everyone has self-interest and that we are now in a community. We are not an island and we don’t always know best so let’s check ourselves.”
