"Well, we have somebody in the White House who is leading us down a s**thole. I can't personally understand how a convicted felon, convicted gets to be president. How do you do that? They say, well he was I don't care! That ruling went down before he stepped into the Oval Office. So it just doesn't make sense to me."
"I'm constantly reminded of Germany in 1935, he said. What was happening there? The brownshirts, those people that are marching through, particularly Berlin, and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars and sending them off. Now this administration wants to build large detention centers."
Morgan Freeman appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell to promote the Amazon miniseries The Gray House and discuss reading a final essay from civil rights activist John Lewis. During the interview, Freeman expressed shock and dismay at Trump's election to the presidency following his conviction on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records. Freeman stated he could not understand how a convicted felon could become president, emphasizing the conviction occurred before Trump took office. He characterized the current situation as the country moving backwards and expressed sympathy for young people facing difficult times. Freeman drew historical parallels to Nazi Germany in 1935, referencing the brownshirts and rounding up of people, and expressed concern about the current administration's plans for detention centers.
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