Original 'naked Gun' Director Rips Dems, Predicts People Will Look Back On This Era Saying ‘america Was Crazy’

Legendary head of nan original "Naked Gun" movies, David Zucker, mightiness deliberation President Donald Trump is nuts, but he besides believes nan existent Democratic Party is overmuch worse for nan country.

Speaking pinch Fox News Digital up of a reboot of his "Naked Gun" bid group for merchandise adjacent period – he is not progressive – nan celebrated spoof filmmaker sewage candid astir his views connected politics, admitting he voted for Trump, moreover though he thinks he’s "crazy," because he didn’t person overmuch of a choice.

"You know, arsenic crazy arsenic Trump is, and I acknowledge, yeah, he's a crazy guy, but... Look astatine what nan different broadside is," Zucker said, saying nan governmental near is connected nan "wrong side" of immense issues, for illustration biologic men competing successful women’s sports.

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David Zucker, nan filmmaker down nan original "The Naked Gun" and "Airplane!" movies, said to Fox News Digital astir having to ballot for President Trump contempt believing he's "crazy." (Michael Tullberg)

The seasoned director, 1 of a number number of outspoken conservatives successful Hollywood, admitted that his Democratic friends and moreover his family can’t understand why he threw his support down Trump successful nan 2024 election. He said he tells them, "This is what I spell by, conscionable nan large dumb issues, which is Israel – that's really I moved correct successful nan first spot – and men successful women's sports."

"These are conscionable large dumb issues," Zucker said. "And I deliberation that nan different broadside is – they're connected nan incorrect broadside of each these – I deliberation they telephone them 80/20 issues."

The filmmaker indicated that he wasn't primitively a blimpish successful nan accepted sense, but an old-school Democratic elector who was abandoned by modern liberalism.

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Actor Leslie Nielsen posing pinch Hollywood head David Zucker. Nielsen was nan prima of Zucker's "The Naked Gun" movie series.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

"You know, I was ever a John F. Kennedy Democrat. You know, beardown military, little taxes and p----," he said. "That’s what I was fixated on."

Again, he seemed to marvel astatine nan truth that nan president represents nan sound of logic connected nan "big dumb issues" of today. He continued, "And Trump, arsenic crazy arsenic he is, he's nan 1 who is trying to – he's keeping men retired of women's sport."

"It's truthful outrageous to maine erstwhile I spot these stories astir these women who had to stock a locker room pinch biologic men. It’s – I mean group will look backmost connected this era as, ‘Well, America was crazy,’" he said.

"And I deliberation America is crazier successful this measurement than Europe," nan head added. 

Zucker, who has been a filmmaker successful Hollywood since nan early '70s, has besides utilized his drama directing chops to make governmental ads mocking Democratic Party figures and causes. He made 1 mocking erstwhile Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., successful 2010, and different criticizing erstwhile President Barack Obama’s Iran deal.

"The Iran Deal video was called ‘Side Effects,’ he told Fox News Digital, astir nan advertisement that came retired astir nan Obama-McCain statesmanlike predetermination successful 2008. "It was done for illustration 1 of these supplier ads that keeps saying, ‘It's great, it’s great. But location are these broadside effects.’"

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He besides directed a feature-length spoof successful 2008 mocking nan wide documentarian Michael Moore and nan acold near successful America, titled "An American Carol." Zucker remarked that he’s proud of that movie moreover though it didn’t execute excessively good astatine nan container agency erstwhile it came out.

"And ohio my God, it's funny. I'm truthful proud of that. It's wholly flatlined. I mean, talk astir misjudging nan audience," he said. "The near doesn't person a consciousness of joke astir itself, and nan Republicans don't spell to movies. So, I had nary audience, but I wanted to do this."

Ironically, Zucker said that he wrote nan movie pinch his leftist friend. "I wrote it pinch a precocious schoolhouse friend who's nan funniest feline that I know, and he's to nan near of Castro. But he loved making movies."

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