Jeff Daniels tapped into his musical side during an interview with Nicole Wallace on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” delivering a live performance of an acoustic protest song he wrote titled “Crazy World.” The song, which was inspired by the No Kings protest against the Trump administration, is “how I cope,” the actor explained.
“Crazy World” finds Daniels choosing to focus on the sweeter things in life despite all of America’s political chaos. As Daniels sings in the chorus: “It’s nice to know in a world full of hate, there’s someone out there still making love.” The actor sings lovingly in the verses about seeing a “young girl smiling” and watching an elderly couple walking together, fleeting moments that hold so much more meaning since “this crazy world’s gone crazy.”
Daniels has long been an outspoken critic of Trump. He made headlines over the summer for slamming Trump voters by saying: “I hope you’re losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK. My question is, what are you guys going to do about it?”
In his latest interview with Wallace, Daniels remained hopeful that Trump voters are starting to see how the president is not delivering on his 2024 election promises such as lowering the cost of groceries. Does this mean Trump supporters might have a change of heart come the midterms? Daniels is optimistic.
“I think those who voted for him because they didn’t like Kamala or don’t like Democrats are paying attention to if things cost more,” Daniels said. “That was one of the things he promised, like any president promises. ‘I’m going to lower prices.’ If he does, he’s a hero come the midterms. If he doesn’t, they are going to notice that.”
Daniels also addressed Trump’s controversial response to the No King protests via an AI video of Trump flying over protesters and dropping feces on them (or “spewing excrement,” as Daniels described it).
“Nixon wouldn’t have done it, Reagan wouldn’t have done it… neither Bush would’ve done it,” Daniels said about Trump’s immature response. “I think people in the midwest, where I am from, we value our decency and civility… I think it matters. If he doesn’t deliver on the economy like he promised he would, that stuff will start to add up and we’ll get tired of it and we will vote for change.
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Daniels often slams Trump for using social media to bully the people he does not like, explaining over the summer: “We’ve lost decency, we’ve lost civility, we’ve lost respect for the rule of law — lost it. We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet. We’ve normalized bullying; much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that, it’s back.”
“I mean, nobody has great things to say about politicians. They never have,” Daniels added at the time. “Go back to Mark Twain. But ideally, we’re supposed to elect the best of us. Not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but with being a human being.”
Watch Daniels’ latest interview on MSNBC in the video below.
From Variety US