Famed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin poked at America’s demand for politicians who really feel like the typical Joe, calling for an finish to the “glamorization of dumbness” in an interview with Esquire launched Wednesday.
Requested if he nonetheless felt just like the U.S. was coping with a “big, big dumb downside,” as he’d stated again in 2019, the politically minded Hollywood veteran defined why he thought little has modified.
“We have to recover from our infatuation with the outsider, with the plainspoken individual that you just wish to have a beer with,” he stated.
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Citing his personal work, Sorkin stated, “The characters I write are all smarter than I’m. I didn’t blaze any trails as a scholar. People who find themselves smarter than I’m don’t make me really feel unhealthy about myself, they don’t make me really feel inferior. And positively a president — I want the president to be smarter than I’m.”
Sorkin added that, in his eyes, “there are tens of millions upon tens of millions of voters who appear to have a mass debilitating inferiority complicated and really feel like a wise president, Obama as an illustration, is trying down his nostril at everybody else, or he’s a Poindexter, or he’s not an actual man.”
“Proper. He eats arugula,” interviewer Michael Sebastian cracked, paying homage to one of many trifling complaints conservatives had about President Barack Obama’s alleged elitism.
“We bought to knock that off,” Sorkin stated. “There was a glamorization of dumbness.”
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Whereas the Oscar winner didn’t point out anybody specifically, his take positively echoed the best way he described President Donald Trump in a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Explaining why he had no real interest in placing a Trump-esque character within the reboot of “The West Wing,” Sorkin known as the Republican president “a very dumb man with an observable psychiatric dysfunction.”
