Actor Dennis Quaid on Donald Trump: ‘People Might Call Him an A**hole But He’s My A**hole’

Morgan: “What do you think of Trump?”

QUAID: “I myself, I think — I think I’m going to vote for him.”

Morgan: “Really?”

QUAID: “Yeah. In the next election. Yes, I am.”

Morgan: “Are you ready for the blowback?”

QUAID: “Well, yeah.”

Morgan: “That inevitably comes with Trump?”

QUAID: “Well, you know, I think this election, everybody’s going to — I think they’re going to take a side or whatever, but it’s — it just seems to me — it just makes sense. I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution. This is America that I don’t think we’re going to have. And, you know, Trump is the most investigated person probably in the history of the world. And they haven’t been able to really get him on anything.”

Morgan: “And this whole Stormy Daniels thing to me is so kind of pathetic. I mean, whatever happens as we sit here now, we’re going to find out in a few days whether he’s guilty or not guilty, I don’t think it matters.”

QUAID: “It doesn’t.”

Morgan: “In fact, if anything, if he’s found guilty, it would help him more.”

QUAID: “Even the way you just said it made it seem like that trial, guilty or not guilty, is about Stormy Daniels.”

Morgan: “Right.”

QUAID: “Which it’s not.”

Morgan: “No, it’s not.”

QUAID: “And in fact, what is the crime? I still can’t figure it out.”

Morgan: “Well, they —“

QUAID: “Neither can they because they haven’t — (crosstalk) — a misdemeanor that had run out of its — run out of its time and, you know, turn it somehow, trying to turn it into a felony and — but they won’t even say what that is.”

Morgan: “Do you — do you have to like Trump to vote for him?”

QUAID: “No.”

Morgan: “Do you like — do you like him personally?”

QUAID: “Well, look, you know, I was — in the last campaign in ‘16 and, you know, and in ‘20, I found myself going, oh, please don’t do that, please don’t say that. You know, it’s like these things have come out of his mouth. But as president, I — the only thing I liked about Trump was everything he did.”

Morgan: “Right.”

QUAID: “You know, what he did with Korea, with rocket baby, the way he defeated ISIS in three weeks. You know, people don’t even remember, it happened so fast. What he — how he stood up for us overseas and — China and the way he responded to China, he stands up to people and he’s — that’s what makes him a leader rather than — what I, I kind of compare it to what was going on in Jimmy Carter’s administration where we were trying to be everybody’s friend and pal. And there’s some evil people and bad actors in this world. And so, you know, it might, people might call him an a**hole, but he’s my a**hole.”

Morgan: “Right. No, I get it.”

QUAID: “Because he’s — I’ll tell you one true thing about him is that I really feel that he is working for the American people, that’s what he’s all about, and I do believe that to be true and sincere.”