{"id":341497,"date":"2026-02-27T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/morgan-freeman-asked-permission-to-curse-on-live-tv-then-called-trump-a-convicted-felon-leading-the-country-down-a-shthole"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:40:20","slug":"morgan-freeman-asked-permission-to-curse-on-live-tv-then-called-trump-a-convicted-felon-leading-the-country-down-a-shthole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/morgan-freeman-asked-permission-to-curse-on-live-tv-then-called-trump-a-convicted-felon-leading-the-country-down-a-shthole","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Requested Permission to Curse on Dwell TV \u2014 Then Known as Trump a &#8216;Convicted Felon&#8217; Main the Nation &#8216;Down a Sh*thole&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Morgan Freeman<\/strong><\/a> doesn\u2019t shout. He doesn\u2019t rant. And he definitely doesn\u2019t ask permission to swear on television.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why what happened Thursday night felt so jarring.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting across from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lawrence\"><strong>Lawrence O\u2019Donnell<\/strong><\/a> on MS NOW\u2019s <em>The Last Word<\/em>, the 88-year-old actor \u2014 the voice that has narrated penguins, presidents, and the literal Almighty \u2014 paused mid-thought and asked a question nobody in that room was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I use any profanity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell told him he could say whatever he wanted. Freeman didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have somebody sitting in the White House who\u2019s leading us down a sh*thole,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t personally understand how a convicted felon \u2014 convicted \u2014 34 felonious\u2026 is that a word? Counts of wrongdoing gets to be president. How do you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t reading a teleprompter. He was working through it in real time, searching for the right word mid-sentence \u2014 \u201cfelonious\u2026 is that a word?\u201d \u2014 and that rawness made it land harder than any rehearsed monologue could.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;He&#039;s a felon!&#039;: Morgan Freeman excoriates Trump, discusses new Civil War series &#039;The Gray House&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bw6K7HOhNdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>When the Calmest Man in Hollywood Stops Sounding Calm<\/h2>\n<p>Celebrities criticize Donald Trump all the time. Robert De Niro does it so often it barely qualifies as news \u2014 he was on the same network days earlier and the response was a collective shrug.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman is different, and everyone knows it. For decades, he\u2019s occupied a space in American culture that almost no one else has \u2014 steady, dignified, deliberately above the noise. He played the president who held the country together in <em>Deep Impact<\/em>. He played God in <em>Bruce Almighty<\/em>. His voice has become shorthand for reassurance. If this country had an official narrator, it would sound like him.<\/p>\n<p>Which is exactly why the profanity mattered. It wasn\u2019t theatrical. It wasn\u2019t fiery. It sounded like a man who had simply run out of softer language.<\/p>\n<h2>The Next Morning, He Was Narrating a Baby Monkey<\/h2>\n<p>The whiplash was almost absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 12 hours after the MS NOW appearance, Freeman was on <em>The View<\/em> promoting the same project \u2014 <em>The Gray House<\/em>, his new Amazon Prime Civil War drama co-produced with Kevin Costner. The mood couldn\u2019t have been more different. Sara Haines asked him to narrate a clip of Punch, the baby monkey from Japan who\u2019s gone viral for getting bullied in his enclosure. Freeman obliged \u2014 that voice, that gravitas, all deployed for a monkey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVRatlUFMRp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The night before, he\u2019d compared the direction of the country to Germany in 1935.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935,\u201d he told O\u2019Donnell. \u201cThe brownshirts, those people marching through Berlin, rounding up people, putting them in boxcars and sending them off. Now, this administration wants to build large detention centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to agree with the comparison to feel the weight of who\u2019s making it. This is a man 88 years into a life that started under Jim Crow. He built a career in an industry that once treated the idea of a Black president as science fiction. When Morgan Freeman invokes 1935, it doesn\u2019t land like a cable news talking point. It lands like testimony from someone who\u2019s been paying attention for a very long time.<\/p>\n<h2>The Fake Endorsement That Makes This Even Sharper<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a layer to this story that hasn\u2019t shown up in a single headline.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, viral posts flooded social media claiming Freeman had endorsed Trump\u2019s presidential campaign. Shared hundreds of thousands of times across X and Facebook. None of it was true. Freeman\u2019s team had to go through Reuters to formally deny it \u2014 because the actual Morgan Freeman had appeared in a White House video endorsing Joe Biden alongside other actors who\u2019d played fictional presidents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1363992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1363992\" style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazon\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363992\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Amazon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363992\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan.jpg\" alt=\"America\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/morgan-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1363992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: @morganfreeman\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For months, the internet used his name to prop up a narrative he never agreed to. On Thursday night, Freeman used his actual voice to tear it apart.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cAbsolutely the Worst\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>The most striking part of the interview wasn\u2019t the profanity. It wasn\u2019t the Nazi reference. It was the quiet agreement.<\/p>\n<p>When O\u2019Donnell suggested that many young Americans feel like they\u2019re living through the worst political moment of their lives, Freeman didn\u2019t push back. He didn\u2019t qualify it or try to offer perspective. He just said, \u201cAbsolutely. Absolutely the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he gave the only advice he had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are at all aware of where we\u2019re headed, and if you don\u2019t agree with it, there is one sure way to change the direction of our country: vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Morgan Freeman has been the voice that narrates America\u2019s story \u2014 in documentaries, in disaster films, in comedies, in history lessons.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, he sounded less like a narrator and more like a man who doesn\u2019t like where the story is going.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/morgan-freeman-asked-permission-to-curse-on-live-tv-then-called-trump-a-convicted-felon-leading-the-country-down-a-shthole\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Freeman doesn\u2019t shout. He doesn\u2019t rant. 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