Michael Douglas revealed that he celebrated a hole in one on the golf course after being so distraught over Donald Trump‘s victory he had to play a round to ‘clear his mind.’
The actor, 80, told the anecdote during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher following the blowout presidential election, and admitted he was left bewildered by the results.
‘The other thing I just have to share, after Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, [I’m] just so p****d at this razor-thin race,’ he said.
‘It was gonna be so close, with all these polls… and it’s a wipeout. I had no idea how that could happen. So, I go down Wednesday morning to play golf just to clear my mind. I go play nine holes, and I get a hole-in-one.’
Michael Douglas said he was ‘so p****d’ about Donald Trump’s election victory this week during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher
The actor revealed he celebrated a hole in one on the golf course after being so distraught over Donald Trump’s victory he had to play a round to ‘clear his mind’
It not the first time Douglas has waded into politics, and the Oscar winner is a vocal Democrat known to host fundraisers for the party at his home.
In July, he joined a wave of celebrities and politicos calling for Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance with Donald Trump.
He said he was ‘disappointed’ at Biden’s doomed candidacy, a message he echoed this week opposite Maher as they discussed the presidential election.
‘The very fact now that we can talk about Republicans as being the party for the people, and we are this elitist party on the left, Democrats, is wild,’ he said.
Asked how Benjamin Franklin – who Douglas portrays on Apple TV’s Franklin series – would have reacted to the results, he replied: ‘Oh, I think he’d have had another drink.’
The Oscar-winning actor, 80, is a vocal Democrat known to host fundraisers for the party at his home and often wades into politics
It came after Maher delivered a blistering monologue explaining how the Democrats bungled the election and handed Trump a second term.
‘For months, Democrats have been saying, “How is this even close?” And they’re right, it wasn’t. They could not conceive of a second Trump term, but they should have. When does America ever turn down seconds?’ the comedian said.
Maher surprised nobody when he said he ‘did not vote for the winner’, but put a positive spin on the results amid a liberal meltdown.
‘A lot of people are freaking out. You know what? I opened the window today, the sun was still shining, the birds were still singing, my gardener was packing for Mexico, that’s the thing,’ he said.
‘We’ll see what the winners do, now that they won. Now they have reality they have to deal with, you know. We’ll see what they do, see if they live up to their word.
‘Trump says he’s gonna deport 12 million people. How are you gonna get 12 million people back into Mexico? And today Trump said, “I’m way ahead of you. Why do you think I left so many holes in the wall?”‘
Maher’s roundup was a lively send-up of both sides, a sharp contrast to many of the liberal late night hosts losing their minds over the election earlier this week.
The comic, who predicted Kamala Harris would win the election and has long roasted the Republican Party on his HBO show, had harsh words for his own side in his monologue Friday night.
‘My message to the losers: Losers look in the mirror!’ he said, noting that Trump run fairly easily.
He savaged a Democrat Party that has become representative of college educated elites and identity politics: ‘You’re brats, and you’re snobs, and people don’t like that.’
