Anonymous ID: ab22e3 Jan. 26, 2020, 4:24 p.m. No.7924968   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4982

David Ng 24 Jan 2020

The acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet told Breitbart News on Thursday that he thinks Donald Trump is a “great president,” while liberal reaction to his presidency has been “psychotic.”

David Mamet’s body of work includes the seminal plays Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, and American Buffalo. Mamet has two new works out, including a book titled The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger.

He spoke with Breitbart News’ editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot 125. The conversation covered Mamet’s career, his intellectual inspirations, and his take on President Trump.

“The reaction to Trump to me is fascinating,” Mamet said. “And one day I started looking at it and squinted my eyes. If you take a Freudian analytical concept, turn it inside out — flip cause and effect and see if the dream makes sense. So if we flip cause and effect, the reaction to Trump — which is psychotic — is equal I believe hydraulically to the reaction to a charismatic leader.”

Mamet equated liberal hysteria over President Trump to the same destructive energy that propelled Adolf Hitler to power.

“The same people growing up right after World War II, you say, ‘Wait a second. How in the world could civilized people say that this little wizened Austrian psychopath was a messiah?’ It’s insane,” he said.

“So the same force that, God forbid, would be devoted here to the adoration of a lunatic is devoted in the anti-Trump psychosis to the excoriation of a regular human being and, I think, a great president.”

Mamet made waves in the entertainment industry in 2008 by writing an essay for The Village Voice that ran with the headline: “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.'”

Mamet told Breitbart News that the article’s title was concocted by Voice editors as a “scare hed” and that it didn’t capture the essay’s themes of political civility. But “the die was cast,” he said. “I found out who my friends were. There’s a couple of them left.”

The writer detailed his political conversion in more detail in his 2011 book The Secret Knowledge.

Aside from his new book The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger, Mamet’s new play The Christopher Boy’s Communion, starring William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon, is scheduled to begin performances February 13 for a brief run at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/01/23/david-mamet-trump-is-a-great-president-liberal-reaction-has-been-psychotic/amp/

Anonymous ID: ab22e3 Jan. 26, 2020, 4:38 p.m. No.7925183   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7924893

Former President Bill Clinton and NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant will jointly participate in an event on Jan. 13 focusing on children’s health and sports, part of the three-day Clinton Health Matters Initiative conference.

“Sports give young people the opportunity to be active, stay healthy, and live up to their best potential,” Clinton said according to ESPN. “This conversation, as part of the Health Matters Conference, will bring leaders from sports, health, education, and other sectors to address the need and value of good coaching, and access to physical activity for all children.”

The conversation is the product of a collaboration between the Clinton Foundation, ESPN, and the Aspen Institute.

Bryant will discuss the increasing prevalence of early enrollment in competitive organized sports and will discuss the balance between organized sports and recreational play.

“Today’s kids are the least active in history and, dropping out of sports at alarming rates,” Bryant said in the statement. “I’m excited to join the Aspen Institute Project Play dialogue and partner with President Clinton, Nike and ESPN at the upcoming Clinton Health Matters conference to bring attention to the need for universal access and early positive experiences in sports and play.”

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/bill-clinton-kobe-bryant-102028