Woody Allen was in Chicago on Saturday to promote his new movie “Irrational Man” (opening Wednesday) and shared his impressions of Donald Trump after learning of the presidential candidate’s latest remarks about Sen. John McCain (“I like people who weren’t captured”).
“Well, you know, he’s outrageous and that’s his M.O.,” said Allen. “And it’s working for him. It’s not going to work in a serious way because he’s not going to get the nomination, and if he got the nomination he’d be swamped … in a landslide.
“He knows he can’t win, so he can afford to be outrageous. Jeb Bush can’t be outrageous because Jeb Bush is a viable contender, Jeb Bush is a credible human being and Donald Trump is an entertainer. He’s hilarious, he’s larger than life … the poorer the taste of his remarks, the more ink he gets and the more space he gets.
“As the election gets closer and closer to reality, he’ll fade. … If it was a Trump/Hillary thing or a Trump/Bernie Sanders thing, Trump/Biden, Trump/anybody, he won’t be able to win. He’s just a good performer.
“I do find him amusing. I know him to say hello to in New York, he’s always very nice and very affable. I used him in a movie once [1998’s ‘Celebrity’] and he came through, he’s a very extroverted performer. But I don’t see him for a second, nor do I really believe that he sees himself, as a serious presidential candidate.”
