{"id":3860,"date":"2026-02-28T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:09:49","slug":"morgan-freeman-calls-out-convicted-felon-trump-during-live-tv-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3860","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman calls out \u2018convicted felon\u2019 Trump during live TV tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morgan Freeman calls out \u2018convicted felon\u2019 Trump during live TV tirade\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-freeman.png?height=576&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>He didn&#8217;t hold back<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Freeman, 88, appeared on MS NOW where he didn\u2019t hold back in his condemnation of Trump during the interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The Shawshank Redemption and Se7en star said that Trump is \u201cleading us down a s**t hole\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The actor also drew attention to Trump\u2019s 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records, including payments made to an adult film star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Trump is appealing his conviction, while he was given an unconditional discharge over the felonies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>This means that he wouldn&#8217;t face any prison time or fines for the offences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cWe have somebody sitting in the White House who&#8217;s leading us down a s**t hole. I can&#8217;t personally understand how a convicted felon, convicted, 34 felonies, counts of wrongdoing, gets to be president. How do you do that? It just doesn&#8217;t make sense to me\u201d, the veteran actor said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935\u201d, Freeman said, as he made a strong comparison between Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown with Germany in 1935.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Freeman also went on to urge people who are concerned about the future of the US to take action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what I would say to young people, other than, if you are at all aware of where we\u2019re headed, where we are right now and where we\u2019re headed. And if you don\u2019t agree with it, there was one sure way to change the direction of our country: vote\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Morgan #Freeman #calls #convicted #felon #Trump #live #tirade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He didn&#8217;t hold back Freeman, 88, appeared on MS NOW where he didn\u2019t hold back in his condemnation of Trump during the interview. The Shawshank Redemption and Se7en star said that Trump is \u201cleading us down a s**t hole\u201d. The actor also drew attention to Trump\u2019s 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records, including payments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201,3801,1000,1206,3802,1764,3800,991,487,3799,3803,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-3860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-calls","9":"tag-convicted","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-felon","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-freeman","15":"tag-live","16":"tag-morgan","17":"tag-morgan-freeman","18":"tag-tirade","19":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}