Although there have been celebs in the White House, Morgan Freeman is more the type to play the President of the United States on the silver screen (which he’s done twice). Still, he isn’t afraid to own up to his voting record in public. He said he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, decrying the politics of Donald J. Trump. Following the 2016 election, Freeman told AARP Magazine (via The Daily Mail), “It feels like we are jumping off a cliff.” Even though he was disappointed in the election outcome, he also voiced hope that Trump would be a sound president. “I’m holding out hope that Donald Trump has to be a good president,” Freeman added. “He can’t not be. What I see is a guy who will not lose.”
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As for the division that occurred following the 2016 election, Freeman said in the summer of 2017 that the divide was caused by disillusionment. He noted (per The Wrap) that fear created by that disillusionment further divided the divided United States along political lines. It makes sense that his six-part National Geographic series “The Story of Us With Morgan Freeman” came about after the Trump presidency. The series had Freeman traveling the world and talking to people about their lives, the point of which was to show us what we all have in common.
