A viral video with actor Bill Murray sharing his thoughts about Donald Trump is attempting to win voters on social media. A post on X, formerly Twitter, that has been viewed over 1.5 million times features an 2016 interview with Murray and suggests that he supports Trump. However, the 74-year-old legendary actor and comedian has a more complicated political history that’s easy to get, let’s say, lost in translation.
Bill Murray Trump viral video explained
In the viral video, Bill Murray explains why he thinks people were voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The video is clipped from a November 2016 interview by Tracks, a multi-language TV program, that’s available on Facebook.
At the time, Murray believed that the Trump vote was a surprise and suggests that the rise of an anti-establishment vote was about “the country being dissatisfied with the way that Washington has worked for the last couple of decades.”
He continued, “they’re lazy… and about inhibiting the other side, not about working together at all” the point that it’s a “national disgrace.”
Does Bill Murray support Donald Trump?
It’s unclear whether Bill Murray supports Donald Trump for president in the 2024 election.
Murray’s politics is not easy to pin down and seems to be political ambivalent or an independent. The actor has donated to various campaigns for Democratic candidates between 1986 and 1998. He also famously lampooned Trump’s White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday Night Live. In 2016, the actor gave President Obama pro golf tips as part of a promo for Obamacare.
On the other hand, he has also praised the GOP tax cuts in 2018 as a “high tide raising all boats.” In the same year, he criticized divisive politics in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” and believed that the strategy of Democrats speaking to specific parts of the population instead of speaking to everyone was “poor.”
Murray also campaigned for the Green Party during Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential run, calling him “the greatest living American,” per Vanity Fair.
