Jason Bateman: Trump Supporters 'Need a Talking To'

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Jason Bateman isn’t an official part of The Hollywood Resistance.

The “Ozark” and “Arrested Development” star talks comedy, Hollywood and more on his popular “Smartless” podcast alongside Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.

Dig through the web and you’ll find some Bateman comments that reflect his liberal views. He’s hardly among the more outspoken celebrities when it comes to politics.

So it’s surprising to see the Emmy winner drag MAGA voters, even as he admitted that doing so represents the “third rail” of celebrity politics.

Media superstar Megyn Kelly shared a shocking snippet from low-rated MSNBC host Nicole Wallace’s new podcast, “The Best People.” Bateman joined the show for its premiere episode last week, and the subject naturally came to President Donald Trump.

Do you ever see a day, and I know this is kind of a third rail for politics, but at what point, if ever, do you think this story would change from reporting on the outrageousness of Trump and his actions, his decisions, his words, and instead moved to the people that have voted for him twice? [emphasis added] And I know that goes back to the whole story of deplorables and like, as soon as that happened, everyone just backed off and don’t ever talk bad about, you know, America and the 80 million. But he’s never changed, he’s always been the same. He didn’t do a 180 and duped everybody when he got to the White House. It’s the people that have put him there and then put him there again that really deserve a great deal of responsibility and a talking to, I’m sorry. And I say that with love, they are our neighbors, as I said before. And I know that they are, you know, deservedly aggrieved and whatnot. But there’s another way to do it. 

He later described the Right as split between MAGA and “Republicans,” ignoring the obvious, and sizable, crossover between the two.

The actor also ignored how his fellow Democrats called President George W. Bush “Hitler” … along with Mitt Romney, President Ronald Reagan and. more. Also memory holed? How MAGA attracted a wide coalition of voters, even former Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Elon Musk is merely the latest Hitler to his chums.

Kelly and guest Charlie Kirk skewered Bateman for his comments.

“To me, he’s just like Michelle Obama. We made you rich beyond your wildest imagination,” Kelly said. “He’s received nothing but love from the right half of this country who never gave two s***s about his politics … what is their reward? He feels the need to take a massive dump all over them. It’s so offensive. It’s so out of touch. It’s so ungrateful.”

Bateman remains a world-class talent, and his dry sense of humor has powered plenty of projects. Think his iconic Michael Bluth character from “Arrested Development” and his coal-black directorial triumph “Bad Words.”

This line from the Wallace podcast, however, might be his finest hour as a comic actor.

I happen to think that MSNBC doesn’t drift from the truth. They just have this immense amount of really interesting, solid facts to talk about.

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