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Michael Shannon Goes On Profanity Laced Rant After Being Asked If He’d Ever Play Trump: ‘F**k That Guy’

Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
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Actor Michael Shannon didn’t hold back his thoughts about President Donald Trump after he was asked if he would ever play him.

“No,” the 44-year-old actor explained explained in the September/October issue of Playboy magazine, before going on a profanity laced rant about why he felt that way, according to Entertainment Weekly Monday.

Actor Michael Shannon attends the "Loving" premiere during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 11, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Actor Michael Shannon attends the “Loving” premiere during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 11, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

“He’s having the time of his f—ing life,” he added.  “He doesn’t even have to work. All the hard work that most people have to do to be president of the United States, he just fucking skipped all that.”

Shannon continued, “The f—ing guy doesn’t even know what’s in the Constitution. He doesn’t have any grasp of history or politics or law or anything. He’s just blindfolded throwing darts at the side of a bus.”

Later, the “Man of Steel” star was asked what he thought went through the president’s head when he’s lying in bed at 4 a.m.

“He’s probably thinking ‘I want some f—ing p—-,'” Shannon shared. “I don’t know. I’m not going to remotely contemplate the notion that Trump is capable of deep reflection.

“In any form! It doesn’t happen,” he added. “F— that guy. When he’s alone with his thoughts, he’s not capable of anything more complex than ‘I want some p—- and a cheeseburger. Maybe my wife will b— me if I tell her she’s pretty.”

The reporter who did the interview, Eric Spitznagel, said the quote was taken out of a larger discussion about the villain roles the two-time Oscars nominee has played and how he empathized with them.