Matt Damon might solely snicker when requested how he felt concerning the Donald Trump marketing campaign’s repurposing of his monologue from the film “Air” for a video that promoted the previous president.
“I don’t know what to make of it,” Damon stated throughout an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace that was recorded earlier than the beginning of the SAG-AFTRA strike and was broadcast on Friday.
“I’m glad they like our writing,” he sarcastically added in a video shared on-line by Mediaite.
Later within the interview, Damon joked about how his character, agent Sonny Vaccaro, was additionally “attempting to write down speeches for the Trump marketing campaign.”
Damon and longtime good friend Ben Affleck, who directed the movie, have each condemned the Trump marketing campaign’s unauthorized use of the audio. They demanded the video be eliminated, but it surely nonetheless stays on Trump’s Fact Social platform.
Damon, who additionally stars within the just-released movie “Oppenheimer,” has torched Trump earlier than, describing his failure in 2017 to sentence white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “abhorrent.” In 2017, he additionally revealed the useless manner Trump gained lots of his TV and film credit.
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