British comedy legend Eric Idle said he isn’t laughing when it comes to President Donald Trump.
In a new Guardian interview published Friday, the Monty Python star was asked: “What’s genuinely funny about Donald Trump?”
Idle didn’t hold back.
“There’s nothing funny about Donald Trump,” he replied. “What will be funny is when he leaves office and we have a big party and dance in the streets.”
“Trump seems to have no end of capacity for stupidity. I think he’s a treasonous monster who works for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” the longtime U.S. resident added, noting he now spends summers in France to avoid U.S. news.
“I can’t stand hearing about that man every minute of every day. They’re completely obsessed by him in the U.S. It’s like they’re addicted to him,” he lamented.
Also in the interview, in which Idle answered questions submitted by readers and fellow celebrities, he zinged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (a noted vaccine skeptic) when a reader asked if his school nurse, called “Nurse Idle,” had indeed, as rumored, been Eric’s mother.
“Oh yes, that’s true,” Idle confirmed. “She did give school vaccinations, and she would have hated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because she knew how important they were.”
The comedian’s contempt for Trump is well-documented via his frequent slams of the president on social media.
In 2020, he mocked first lady Melania Trump’s leaked “Who gives a fuck about Christmas?” audio by suggesting she duet with him on his song “Fuck Christmas.”
A year earlier, he poked fun at Trump’s struggle to fund his southern border wall, suggesting this Python-esque proposal:
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