Iconic director John Milius was thrilled about President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, in accordance with his daughter.
“Clearly he was very glad,” Amanda Milius, a filmmaker and former Trump administration official, instructed Fox Information Digital in an unique interview. “We agreed that we each had – and I feel lots of people who felt this manner – had like extra of a way of aid than this, like, exuberant, overjoyed pleasure, which is what all of us felt in 2016.”
John Milius, the director of Nineteen Eighties classics like “Pink Daybreak” and “Conan the Barbarian” in addition to the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “Apocalypse Now,” has saved a comparatively decrease profile lately following a stroke he suffered in 2010. However Amanda says he retains up with politics as a lot as ever.
“My dad’s been a Trump man, truthfully, since 2014,” Amanda mentioned. “My dad has been on Crew Trump since, like, the second you might be.”
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“Pink Daybreak” director John Milius was “very glad” about President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, in accordance with his daughter Amanda. (Greg Doherty/Getty Photographs for Asian World Movie Competition)
Amanda instructed Fox Information Digital that in contrast to most in liberal Hollywood, her father did not suppose so fondly of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“He hated her!” Amanda chuckled. “I imply, he was simply laughing on the concept of it. He simply thought it was ridiculous. He thought the idea of Kamala Harris being president… he has a really over-the-top manner of placing issues… however he mainly mentioned that anybody who would think about voting for her for president was simply an fool. He is like, ‘There isn’t any – there is no manner this may be severe.’ Like, it was simply as unserious as Joe Biden. It was the entire thing was unserious.”
“He had, I feel, a bit extra vitriol for Hillary [Clinton] as a result of, , she’d been round longer and he’d had extra time to type opinions about her. However he was not impressed, I assume we will say that,” she added.
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Amanda Milius says her father, filmmaker John Milius, has been a “Trump man” earlier than the president-elect even launched his first bid for the White Home. (Joshua Blanchard/Getty Photographs for EPIX)
Amanda described her father as “all the time [being] on the surface politically of Hollywood” however was by no means keen on fellow filmmakers and entertainers weighing in on politics. And in 2024, Harris had among the largest names rallying behind her from Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts to music stars like Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen and Girl Gaga.
“He is all the time felt free to be much more outwardly proper wing than I feel he usually would have if Hollywood wasn’t so overtly left wing. As a result of he is like a really contrarian character,” Amanda instructed Fox Information Digital. “If Hollywood was simply kind of a mixture of regular folks, he in all probability would not have felt such a must be so vocally proper wing. However as a result of it was so left, he simply went farther to the correct.”
“He rolls his eyes with the remainder of us when Hollywood comes out and helps a candidate,” she mentioned.
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Martin Sheen (L) and John Milius attend the “Apocalypse Now” Remaining Minimize fortieth Anniversary Particular Screening at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on August 12, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Michael Kovac/Getty Photographs for myCinema)
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Amanda Milius served within the first Trump administration within the White Home and the State Division, one thing she mentioned made her father “very thrilled.”
She additionally adopted in her father’s footsteps because the director of the 2020 documentary “The Plot In opposition to the President.”
