Patti Lupone isn’t mincing words when it comes to her thoughts on Donald Trump. “The country is doomed,” the Broadway legend, 71, said in the 2020 Variety Power of Women issue. “I think it is a failed experiment.
I don’t see us pulling ourselves out of this. I think we’re heading into either fascism or a dictatorship.” Lupone has made her disdain for Trump known long before this candid interview.
While starring in the Broadway musical War Paint alongside Christine Ebersole in 2017, Lupone announced that she’d refuse to perform if she found out the newly-inaugurated president were in the audience.
Why? “Because I hate the motherf**ker. How’s that?,” she said on the Tony Awards red carpet. During an interview that same year on Show People