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Fact Check: No Evidence Morgan Freeman Said 2nd Trump Presidency Would Be 'Good for the Country'
By Nur Ibrahim,
3 hours ago
Claim:
Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, actor Morgan Freeman said or wrote that he thinks a second Donald Trump presidency would be "good for the country."
In mid-September 2024, numerous social media users resurfaced a claim that actor Morgan Freeman recently said a second Donald Trump presidency "would be good for the country."
One X account, named Donald J. Trump - Parody, wrote : "BREAKING: Hollywood legend Morgan Freeman just said he thinks a second Trump presidency would be good for the country. Do you agree Morgan Freeman? A. YES B. NO."
The same X account posted the rumor in late August 2024, while it also appeared elsewhere on the social media platform earlier in the year.
While it is impossible to confirm or deny someone's inner monologue (the precise claim is that Freeman thinks a Trump 2024 presidential victory would be beneficial for the U.S.), there was no evidence Freeman publicly expressed any support for the Republican presidential candidate, and much less of him saying (or writing) verbatim that "a second Trump presidency would be good for the country." If he had, entertainment news publications would have documented the sentiment, considering Freeman's prominence and history of publicly supporting Democratic politicians.
Rather, in past interviews, the actor expressed support for the Democratic party's 2016 nominee, Hillary Clinton. And, based on his appearance in a March 2024 video to promote U.S. President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, he appeared to support a Democrat — not Republican Trump — for the White House.
Posts sharing the rumor about Freeman supposedly thinking Trump would be "good for the country" did not contain a source to substantiate the assertion, like a news article or video clip of Freeman. The allegation appeared to be made up from whole cloth. It was unknown who, or what social media account, started the rumor.
For all of these reasons, we rated the claim " Unfounded ."
In a February 2017 interview with AARP magazine , Freeman said he voted for Hillary Clinton in the most recent election. He said he was "holding out hope" that Trump would "be a good president":
As for politics today, I supported Hillary in the election, and now it feels like we are jumping off a cliff. We just have to find out how we land. I'm not scared, though. I'm holding out hope that Donald Trump has to be a good president. He can't not be. What I see is a guy who will not lose.
In an April 2017 interview with the Daily Beast to discuss Freeman's "The Story of God," a National Geographic documentary series about religion, Freeman's publicist did not allow any questions about former U.S. President Barack Obama, nor then-President Trump. The reporter asked Freeman about conservatives' attacks on Islam. Apparently referring to that group, Freeman said: "There are those areas among us that paint an entire group [Muslims] with the same brush."
Fast forward to the 2024 election and Freeman's endorsement of Biden for a second term. In March 2024, h e appeared in a video on The White House's YouTube channel alongside actors Bill Pullman, Geena Davis, Tony Goldwyn and Michael Douglas. In the video, Biden asked them for advice since they have played fictional American presidents.
Freeman, who played President Beck in the 1998 sci-fi movie "Deep Impact," said to Biden: "In my capacity as president, all I had to deal with was a meteor. One of the things that I came out of that within my speech [was that] hope is the strongest force we have in this country. It is the most useful and the most effective."
This was not the first time a quote supposedly attributed to Freeman had gone viral. In 2018 , Snopes debunked a false claim that Freeman posted an expletive-ridden tweet about Trump.
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