Jon Cryer may think about backing his “Two and a Half Men” co-star Charlie Sheen if Sheen have been to someway problem President Donald Trump for political workplace.
Showing on “The MeidasTouch Podcast” Wednesday, Cryer walked again his earlier comparability of Sheen and Trump whereas expressing his ongoing distaste for the present commander in chief.
“To be clear, as many of the issues that Charlie faces, I do think he’d be a better president,” he quipped. “So … I don’t know that it’s fair to completely lump the two of them together.”
Cryer made his headline-making evaluation of Trump in 2016, when the long run president was nonetheless a first-time candidate.
Watch a clip of Jon Cryer’s “MeidasTouch Podcast” chat beneath.
“I have been pointing out, and I have been screaming to the rooftops, that Donald Trump is the Charlie Sheen of politics,” the actor mentioned throughout an look on the “Never Not Funny” podcast that yr. “I love Charlie Sheen, I loved working with him when he was sober, but … he’s full of shit. He has been full of shit, he has serious addiction. His addiction is obviously serious … but Trump is just addicted to feeling important.”
In his “MeidasTouch Podcast” chat, Cryer clarified that any similarities between Sheen and Trump have been merely of their communication types ― at the very least on the time when Sheen was experiencing drug and alcohol dependancy.
“The thing I was pointing out was that, at the time when I made that comment, Charlie was still just going off and saying whatever stupid ‘tiger blood’ comments he was making,” he defined. “And Trump has always been comfortable with saying whatever stupid thing he said, because people wrote him off as harmless and didn’t hold him responsible for those things.”
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Cryer and Sheen portrayed brothers Alan and Charlie Harper, respectively, on CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” when the collection premiered in 2003. Whereas on set, Sheen and collection co-creator Chuck Lorre famously clashed. In 2011, Sheen was fired from the present following its eighth season.
When the present’s ninth season premiered, the character of Charlie Harper was mentioned to have died, with actor Ashton Kutcher becoming a member of the forged within the newly written position of billionaire Walden Schmidt.
In recent times, Cryer has shrugged off the suggestion of a reunion with Sheen, regardless of the latter having been extra outspoken with regard to his experiences with dependancy. In 2023, Sheen informed Folks he’d been sober for six years.
“There was just instant evidence that this was the side I needed to be on. I couldn’t be in denial about it anymore,” he mentioned on the time. “I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made and the changes I’ve made to live a life today that will never look like that mess. That was some alien version of myself.”
