According to Matt Damon, President Obama hasn’t just staked his reputation with his scandal-ridden second term – he’s also struggling to prove his manhood.
The “Good Will Hunting” star told the British newspaper The Guardian that he is more “disturbed” by Obama’s presidency now than anything else, despite being an avid supporter of the president’s candidacy in 2008.
“I think it’s tough for guys who weren’t in the military,” he told The Guardian. “One, their manhood is kind of challenged on some level, I imagine, and they allow themselves to get bullied. And two, they’re just politically afraid of either looking soft or looking incompetent, so they overcompensate.”
So what changed the actor-turned-philanthropist’s mind? For starters, the various scandals involving his administration that broke in May, including the National Security Agency PRISM scandal. In fact, he believes the NSA surveillance program is “surreal.”
“I don’t know where we are now,” he told The Guardian.
While he still supports comprehensive healthcare reform in the U.S., Damon does thinks the president has – gasp – broken many of his promises while in office.
This isn’t the first time People Magazine‘s 2008 Sexiest Man Alive has openly criticized the President he once loved. In an 2011 interview with Elle Magazine, the actor made another reference to Obama’s lack of manhood.
“You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better,” he told Elle.
Despite knocking the commander-in-chief, he still voted for him in 2012 over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and has no regrets about that decision.
“As disturbed as I am by a lot of the things that Obama has done and is doing, I would not have preferred a Romney presidency, that’s for sure,” he told The Guardian. “The alternative is even more frightening.”
