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Dennis Quaid calls out the “double standard” in Hollywood when it comes to supporting President Donald Trump.
“It’s either ‘F Trump’ on one side or ‘I love Trump’ on the other hand for a few of us who talk about it,” he told Fox News Digital.
She continued, “Yeah, there’s a double standard, but there’s a double standard in everything. You’re rational, and you’re like some kind of beat case where, you know, it might be true, you know, that I can compete in women’s sports or, you know, that I can do anything, vote twice or whatever.”
Quaid said he was talking to the president recently about his new movie, “War Machine,” which was released exclusively on Netflix earlier this month. Alan Ritchson calls it an action/sci-fi film.
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Dennis Quaid and President Trump in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“He said, ‘Why are you coming out?’ I said, ‘War Machine.’ He said, ‘Oh yeah, I can’t wait to see that. We need that kind of film. What is it about?’ I said, ‘It’s aliens compared to humans.’ He said, ‘You know I’m going to release the file,'” he laughed. “So, we might have a prequel by the time he does it, you never know.”
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Quaid called flying with Trump on Air Force One “a sweet camp.”
“It was pretty amazing,” he said. “There is everything you thought it could be.”
“It’s either ‘F Trump’ on the other side or ‘I love Trump’ on the few of us who talk about it.”
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The 71-year-old said the president’s plane had a room like the one shown in all the action movies: “And you, you know, the military guys, they’re on their radar screens or whatever. The nuclear ball is sitting there, and it was something else.”
“The Parent Trap” star said he was with the president before the US launched strikes against Iran late last month, praising his “poker face.”
He said the president is talking about, “‘What are we going to do about Iran, you know?’ He didn’t want to do it. And you could see that it was heavy in his heart, because he knew to send any of our service people into danger, maybe the biggest, hardest decision I think the President of the United States could make. And it weighed heavily on him, but, you know, he had a poker face at the same time because he didn’t really give anything away, but you could hear his heart. That was it.”
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Boarding the plane felt like stepping back into the 1990s, Quaid said.
Dennis Quaid waves to Trump supporters in Texas. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
“Everything is exactly the same,” he revealed. Bush One got the plane, I think, for about a month and Clinton used it. I mean, you can remember old photos even from the past, like this one [former President George W.] Bush on the plane from, you know, when 9/11 happened. And everything is well maintained, but that plane is old.”
He added, “We have to find a new one. Not just Trump’s, but, you know, the next one, because it’s 30 years old. It seems my Bonanza has better avionics, more up to date. I’m sure they have a few things hidden in there, but you know.”
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Turning to his new movie, “War Machine,” Quaid said he was drawn to the story because it “felt like a classic movie, you know, like ‘Rambo’ and a lot of classic movies from the ’80s.”
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“We needed a film like this to come up with, and it really delivers. It really delivers,” he said.
He was also drawn to film because of Alan Ritchson.
Dennis Quaid at a Trump rally in California in 2024. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
“He’s a great star, you know, you love to see him, he’s in great shape, and he can do all that action stuff, and you believe,” Quaid said. “Patrick Hughes, who plays the helicopter pilot at the end, by the way, was a great director, and he was like a kid in a candy store making this movie. It made it so much fun.”
Quaid said he was “very thankful” that he got to play a general who never soiled his uniform while Ritchson was on the tail.
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“I’ve been there,” he explained. “There was a time when, you know, it would be like three o’clock in the morning, and I’m up to my neck in mud in Slovakia, you know, playing three tennis balls on a stick that’s supposed to be a flying dragon trying to burn me.”
When discussing the issues of war, Quaid said it was important to “get it right.”
“At least I want it to feel good, and, you know, I’ve never been in a service, and I really respect those who were there,” she said. “When I turned 18, that was like the year they went into the volunteer army … But I have a lot of respect for our soldiers and what they do for all of us. You know, it’s amazing what they do.”
Dennis Quaid and fellow Trump supporter Jon Voight at the premiere of “Reagan” in Hollywood in 2024. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
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Quaid said he wants to make a film that service members will want to watch.
“The older you get, the more you don’t take things for granted, I think, how good we have it here,” said Quaid about patriotism. “And, the older I get, the more I travel, the more I know things, and how rare it is that we have here in the United States. It’s a very good thing. It’s a wonder of the world what we have here.”
Quaid added that he loves his job more now than he did in his 20s and 30s, “because I’m not trying to like, you know, to be somebody or, you know, to get awards or this or that … I do things because I really love doing them. And that makes it more fun. And especially if you have a fire in your belly to do it, you know.”
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Dennis Quaid at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024. (Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)
He said that at this time, he continues to do “his pleasure, not something that I will achieve or anything. I love acting, and I love it more than ever and when you grow up you get, the kind of parts that are really better to tell you the truth.”
In a podcast interview earlier this month, Quaid talked about how 1998’s “Parent Trap” with Lindsay Lohan gave him “every other career.”
“I’m not trying to like, you know, to be somebody or, you know, to get awards or this or that … I do things because I really like doing them. And that makes it a lot more fun.”
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“I was playing bad boys and stuff like that,” he said, until the 1990s when he went to rehab, which he jokingly called “cocaine school.”
“I had my children,” he added. “Then ‘The Parent Trap’ came along and, you know, it just changed everything.”
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He told the “Out of Order” podcast that he likes acting more now than he did then.
“I like to go in and I like to make something out of nothing because that’s what you do every day that you’re, you know, you have these words on the page and stuff like that, but you’re trying to do what they call ‘magic’ or whatever, but, you know, you’re trying to convey something that you don’t fully understand what it is. You know, maybe you haven’t created anything. It’s a piece of you.”
