So the mom from Malcolm in the Middle apparently hates Donald Trump. Or to be more prescise, the actress who played Lois Wilkerson on the Fox hit comedy, Jane Kaczmarek.
The actress showed up on last Friday’s edition of PBS’s Tavis Smiley show to blast that Trump has “hurt the feelings of every human being in this country....so I’m not too worried about hurting the feelings of him or the people who support him.” This apparently includes members of Kaczmarek’s own family, or as she called them “My favorite ‘Basket of Deplorables.’”
The following is the relevant exchange as it was aired on the March 3 edition of PBS’s Tavis Smiley show:
TAVIS SMILEY: How you holdin’ up? I know how busy you were during this campaign and I know that some of us have family members who don’t see this the way we see it.
JANE KACZMAREK: Well, you know, I refer to my family in Milwaukee as my favorite “basket of deplorables.” And you know, I think the gloves really have come off in this. In that, you know the thought of not hurting someone’s or not. I find this president has so hurt the feelings of every human being in this country and the civil rights that he is trampling on. So I’m not too worried about hurting the feelings of him or the people who support him. And I know we’re not supposed to do that. And in school they’re telling all the children, you know, you have to find common ground. Sorry, there is no common ground.
SMILEY: How have you reconciled yourself to moment that we find ourselves in. And I say reconcile, not in terms of accepting it, not in terms of going along with it but in terms of how you process day-to-day?
I saw a comedian the other day, make the joke, said something like “I’m just waiting for one day when I wake up and I don’t get a CNN alert that scares the heck out of me.” So how are you — He didn’t say “heck” I'm trying to clean it up for PBS. But how are you navigating everyday?
KACZMAREK: Well, Saturday Night Live has been a great elixir. You know that has been a real rallying cry, I think, for all of us to say yes this is something we never thought we would be seeing in our lifetime. I have two daughters though, who I’m very proud of. My daughter Francis in North Carolina School of the Arts, she’s a ballet dancer. And she went to hear Hillary and Michelle talk. She has been in the protests in North Carolina. My Mary Louisa, who’s 14 in L.A., in Pasadena. We’ve got a great group of very liberal-minded human rights blessed women in Pasadena. And they have been very, very active about. And you just realize, you know I turned 60. I’m 61 now. But I kind of thought the rest of my days after President Obama was going to be, you know, we are now gonna be living in that country we dreamed of. Right?
SMILEY: We turned the corner. We turned the corner.
KACZMAREK: Turned the corner. And I never thought my next 20 or 30 years would be, hopefully, getting back to — not hopefully — we will. Get back to where we’re supposed to be as human beings and as moral characters in this country and in this world.
