George Clooney has fallen into the same trap that so many political pundits have before him since Election Day: he can’t stop speculating about why Hillary Clinton lost.

In a new interview with The Daily Beast, the actor and director of the upcoming Suburbicon discussed a plethora of things: Charlottesville, Donald Trump, and his new movie, a denunciation of American racism wrapped within a dark comedy scripted in part by the Coen Brothers. Because the intersection of racism and politics is as relevant today as it’s ever been, Clooney got to talking about Donald Trump—which got him talking about Clinton.

“She was more qualified than even her husband was when he was elected president, but she’s not as good at communicating things,” Clooney said. “That’s simply true. When she got up and gave a speech, it didn’t soar. Now, that doesn’t mean that she wouldn’t have done a great job as president, and I supported her because by the time we did the fundraiser the primary was over at that point and it was time to get on with picking someone to move forward, and she was the right person to side with.

“It was frustrating because I never saw her elevate her game,” he continued. “I never saw it. And I had a lot of liberal friends who were like, ‘She’s not good at this.’ And I see that, and I understand it. I also think, though, that if it was a guy it wouldn’t have been so polarizing. I think the fact that she’s a woman made it a much harder uphill battle.”

Sexism was one of the factors that Clinton blamed in her memoir, What Happened, for her election loss—along with The New York Times, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and herself. But Clooney, ultimately, blames her inability to get the people fired up.

“I think that she wasn’t particularly good at articulating the things that she wanted to do,” he said, “and unfortunately we live at a time right now where articulating what you want to do is more potent in the electorate than the other way around, obviously, when Trump only said he was going to ‘Make America Great Again.’ Don’t you think the next Democrat who runs should just run with a blue hat that says, ‘Make America Great Again?’”