Josh Brolin calls Trump marketing ‘genius,’ says he knows him as ‘different guy’

Actor Josh Brolin known as President Donald Trump a “advertising genius” throughout an interview Saturday as he pushed again on the concept that the president would stay in workplace after his time period ends.

“I am not afraid of Trump, as a result of even when he says he will keep without end, that is simply not going to occur. And if it does, I am going to take care of that second. However as a result of I used to be a good friend of Trump earlier than he turned president, I do know one other man.” he told The Independent in an interview.

Brolin informed the outlet that he knew the president as an entrepreneur after assembly Trump following his look on “Wall Road: Cash By no means Sleeps.” He stated he was fascinated with Trump constructing a lodge “in the midst of a cesspool city within the late Nineteen Seventies.” He added: “Now the facility is limitless, unregulated.”

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“There isn’t any higher genius than him in advertising – he takes the weak point of the final inhabitants and fills it in. And that is why I feel lots of people really feel like they’ve a mascot inside them. I feel it is a lot much less about Trump than it’s concerning the basic inhabitants and their want for validation,” Brolin stated.

Josh Brolin attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller” on November 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. President Donald Trump takes half in a telephone name with U.S. navy personnel from his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Seaside, Florida. (Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Photos for Netflix; Pete Marovich/Getty Photos)

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Brolin was important of Trump’s 2020 bid for the presidency and rejected it in 2020 an Instagram post.

“I refuse to consider that Donald Trump is our core model of American masculinity,” Brolin wrote on the time. “The America that was nice was by no means primarily based on creating hatred and conspiring to win. There have been just a few, however none have lasted. Donald Trump has lied over 50,000 documented occasions, however we’re nonetheless keen to let it go as a result of he speaks to an American demographic that now not felt masculine.”

Brolin additionally spoke to The Impartial about taking part in Monsignor Wicks within the new movie ‘Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller’.

Kathryn Boyd Brolin and Josh Brolin attend the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller” on November 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Photos for Netflix)

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The movie is the third within the “Knives Out” collection and stars Brolin alongside Daniel Craig, Glenn Shut, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and Kerry Washington.

Brolin informed the outlet that his character was not primarily based on the president.

“I might make one thing up and say it was rooted in some form of Trumpian greed,” he stated. “Wicks provides a sense of energy, after which there are not any limits.”

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after talking to troops by way of video from his Mar-a-Lago property on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 27, 2025, in Palm Seaside, Florida. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)

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