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Clint Eastwood must be feelin’ pretty lucky.

…not sure what I even mean by saying that, but I’m proud to be a millennial who knows the reference, so let me have my moment.

Alright, so I can acknowledge the intention behind his remarks, but this isn’t the country club.

Furthermore, we’re no longer in the days of calm, collected, and deliberative politics. Perhaps we never were in the first place but the technological advances have made it so the instances are simply publicized more now than ever before.

Recent events have shown every citizen in our nation that politics can be the dirtiest game to play and I would’ve thought Dirty Harry would have been on the Trump train in this current climate.

According to Breitbart:

Clint Eastwood backs Mike Bloomberg? The legendary actor-director and longtime Republican campaigner has applauded President Trump for “certain things” he’s done and told the Wall Street Journal that “the best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.” “The politics has gotten so ornery,” the five-time Oscar-winner said in the wide ranging WSJ interview. Eastwood says he wished President Trump would act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level.”

My first thought is: Democrats ridicule Trump on a personal level every single day but I’m proud to have a president who doesn’t just sit back and take it.

Secondly, has Eastwood even done any research on the abhorrent comments Bloomberg has made, and continues to make?

Eastwood ridiculing President Trump is pretty uncharacteristic, given his history of remarks.

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Breitbart reported:

In an interview with Extra in December 2015, Clint Eastwood said voters were “looking for somebody who is outspoken and who isn’t afraid” and said Donald Trump “seems to have kind of a fearless attitude.” After praising then-Republican frontrunner Ben Carson, Eastwood declared “anyone of them would be better than” Barack Obama. Again lauding Trump’s willingness to say “what’s on his mind,” Eastwood told Esquire in August 2016 that we’re in a “kiss-a** generation … a pu**y generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells.” “He’s said a lot of dumb things. So have all of them. Both sides,” Eastwood continued of Trump. “But everybody —the press and everybody’s going, ‘Oh, well, that’s racist,’ and they’re making a big hoodoo out of it. Just f*cking get over it. It’s a sad time in history.”

The tweeting does get weird and the name-calling is unprofessional for anyone to do.

Quite frankly, I don’t need my president to be polite in order to support him.