Mila Kunis apparently won’t be pulling the lever for Donald Trump come November.
The former “That ’70s Show” star took aim at Trump in an interview with Glamour, blasting the presumptive GOP nominee for his stance on refugees and immigrants.
The 32-year-old actress, who said that her family came to America from the Ukraine on a religious-refugee visa when she was a child, took aim at Trump and other political candidates who take an “America: Just Leave It” attitude toward immigrants and refugees.
“The whole Syrian-refugee thing — we came here on a religious-refugee visa, and I’m not going to blow this country up,” Kunis said. “I’m clearly paying taxes. I’m not taking anything away.”
The actress went on to address calls to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, another plank in Trump’s platform.
“It saddens me how much fear we’ve instilled in ourselves. And going from there to the whole, ‘Hey, let’s build a wall between Los Angeles and Mexico’ … I don’t even have to answer that one. There’s no point,” Kunis offered. “It’s a really great sound bite. And it got him far. Nobody should be mad at him; we did it to ourselves.”
Trump has sounded off on Syrian refugees in America during multiple television appearances and rallies. Discussing the topic at a Rhode Island campaign stop in April, the candidate suggested some of the refugees might have terrorist ties.
“We don’t know who these people are. We don’t know where they’re from,” Trump told his supporters. “They have no documentation. We all have hearts and we can build safe zones in Syria and we’ll get the Gulf states to put up the money.”
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5. Trump called her "a world-class liar" and went on to elaborate.
"Just look at her pathetic email and server statements ... or her phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers," he said.
USC clinical professor of communications Gordon Stables told TheWrap the argument is strong among GOP voters, but it’s not rhetoric that changes a lot of opinions.
4. “Hillary says this election is about judgment. She's right. Her judgement [sic] has killed thousands, unleashed ISIS and wrecked the economy,” Trump tweeted.
“There is an argument to be made that the Clinton State Department part of an Obama administration approach to foreign policy, specifically in the Arab world, that was typified the idea of leading from behind,” Politico national politics reporter Eli Stokols told TheWrap. “ISIS has become a problem during the Obama administration. Trump isn’t going to talk about how the roots of it were planted by the Iraq war.”
“It’s a critique of the way Clinton has approached public life,” Stables said. “He’s trying to say there is something fundamentally corrupt about the way she’s approached public service.”
2. Trump called Clinton’s message "old and tired" before elaborating.
"Her message is that things can't change," Trump said. "My message is that things have to change -- and this is our one chance to do it and may be our only chance to do that change."
“He is trying to tap into frustration at both ends of the political spectrum,” Stables said. “Republicans who think their politicians are too moderate and liberal voters who feel politicians are too much in the center. It’s very much an appeal to disenfranchised Sanders voters.”
“Trump, as he will tell you, has made a career out of branding and marketing. There has never been anything subtle about it,” Stokols said. “There is not going to be anything subtle about the way he attacks Hillary Clinton.”
1. In response to Clinton's "I'm with Her" campaign slogan, Trump said, "I'm with you, the American people." "She thinks it's all about her -- I know it's all about you. I know it's all about making America great again for all Americans."
Stokols feels that Trump repurposed Clinton’s catch phrase to make her sound selfish and make himself sound like a populist.
“It hits a nerve with his base. The people who already like him, who listen to conservative talk radio and go to his rallies, they find this familiar. They like the rhetorical red meat,” he said. “But that’s no longer the audience.”
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