Golfing with Trump won’t sway Samuel Jackson’s vote

Samuel L. Jackson stepped right into that situation while making the rounds to promote his new Quentin Tarantino film, “The Hateful Eight,” because he has socialized with Trump on the golf course.

At the end of a wide-ranging podcast interview with ythe Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, the conversation turned to the “crazy stuff” happening in the world today.

With this, Feinberg turned the topic around again to Trump, who, in addition for calling for a “total and complete ban” on Muslims entering the United States, was the subject of a recent New York Times story about his now-fraught relationships with black celebrities.

The paper noted that “Mr. Trump’s rise in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination — which has also prompted accusations that he is using racially charged language and has drawn comparisons to the segregationist George Wallace — has created some discord among African American celebrities whom Mr. Trump has called friends.”

“But as a black person who — as you say — has to deal with similar kind of suspicion just because you’re a black person, does it bother you to know that there is a very, very good chance that a presidential candidate in this country will be nominated on a platform of saying that, you know, we’re not going to let any Muslims in this country?” Feinberg asked.

[...] Jackson’s choice is Hillary Clinton, whom he said already knows the job, and wouldn’t have as much of a learning curve as President Obama.

[...] I mean, I love Bernie (Sanders), and Bernie’s a man of the people.