HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Actor Will Smith attends the Warner Bros. Pictures' "Focus" premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre on February 24, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
“Suicide Squad” star Will Smith made it clear in a new interview that he will not be voting for Donald Trump, and he is appalled by the GOP candidate’s treatment of women.
“For a man to be able to publicly refer to a woman as a fat pig, that makes me teary. And for people to applaud, that is absolutely f—ing insanity to me,” the actor told news.com/au while promoting his new movie, expected to be another massive blockbuster under his belt.
“My grandmother would have smacked my teeth out of my head if I had referred to a woman as a fat pig. And I cannot understand how people can clap for that. It’s absolutely collective insanity,” he added.
“If one of my sons, I am getting furious just thinking about it, if one of my sons said that in a public place, they couldn’t even live in my house anymore.”
“I think as much as we want to believe that love is the greatest human motivator, it’s not. Fear is. Fear is the most dangerous and powerful motivator because when a human being gets scared, fight or flight kicks in,” Smith said. “And there is this really separatist non-inclusive xenophobic, racist wave that is sweeping the globe that is making us pull apart farther than putting us together.”
Here's a timeline of Donald Trump's fight with Muslim-American immigrants Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who have criticized his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States.
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July 28--Convention speech
Khizr Khan appears at the Democratic National Convention with his wife Ghazala. The Pakistani immigrants criticized Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric and invoked the name of their son Humayun Khan -- who sacrificed himself in Iraq in 2004 to save his unit. Khizr Khan said Trump has "sacrificed nothing" and offered Trump his personal copy of the U.S. Constitution.
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Trump implied that Ghazala Khan did not speak at the convention because her husband would not allow it. He also said that he had made sacrifices, namely building his business empire and creating "thousands of jobs."
Ghazala Khan published an op-ed in the Washington Post saying she declined to speak at the convention because she was overwhelmed with emotion at the memory of her son's death. "Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means," she wrote.
Trump tried to shift focus from himself and back to the issue of "radical Islamic terror," but was widely criticized for his apparent attack on parents of the fallen soldier.
Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, issued a statement in Trump's defense that read in part, "Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American."
Khizr Khan made the interview rounds, criticizing Trump for his statements against his family and Muslims in general. Trump responded with more tweets, one of which read, "Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!"
Arizona Senator and Vietnam veteran John McCain slammed Trump and defended the Khans in a statement. "While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us," he said.
How the Republican candidate came to criticize parents of fallen Muslim-American soldier
Here's a timeline of Donald Trump's fight with Muslim-American immigrants Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who have criticized his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States.