Dennis Quaid thinks American politics has moved too far to the left in recent years.
The actor, who played President Ronald Reagan in the 2024 biopic “Reagan,” was interviewed on Pastor Greg Rory’s “The Greg Rory Show” earlier this week. Lowery told Quaid, “Things have gotten so extreme that it’s so left-wing right now. I watched a podcast and it was Bill Maher and Dana Carvey. I forget the name of the other one, but anyway, I think Dana Carvey was saying, ‘I tell my friends in Hollywood that I’m a Clinton Democrat, and now some of them are calling me a Nazi.'”
Quaid replied, “I can’t do that.”
The 71-year-old actor agreed that these days being a Clinton Democrat is “the same thing as being a neocon, right-wing or whatever. It didn’t used to be that, but it can’t be that anymore.”
Although he doesn’t call himself a Republican, he said, “I’m more of a conservative at heart,” but “I’m a common-sense independent.”
“I’m just common sense, the real me,” Quaid said.
Lowery brought up the topic of the current president, describing Donald Trump as “a very personable person, incredibly funny, a good listener, incredibly approachable.”
Quaid agreed that Trump is “incredibly approachable, very funny, and really honest. You can’t be president without being honest. The people who voted for him know that he has their best interests at heart, that he’s a man of integrity.”
“I’ve never seen anyone with that kind of energy,” Quaid continued. “People say that about me, but he really has a lot of energy.”
When Laurie asked if he had ever stayed in Lincoln’s bedroom at the White House, Quaid replied that he had indeed stayed in the Queen’s bedroom across the street. Quaid said the White House “serves instant coffee in the morning,” which he said “puts things in very perspective.” “It’s pretty bad coffee,” he observed, noting that this was during the Clinton presidency, when he once spent an entire weekend with the president.
Quaid said that when he played Reagan, he tried to “get past the incident and get to the real person,” including depicting the former president’s walk and facial nerve damage.
“We are experiencing a spiritual revolution,” Quaid later told Laurie. “I’m not talking about Republicans and Democrats,” he says of the country’s spiritual shift. “But I’m talking about the two coming together.”
