Sharon Stone rips 'ignorant, arrogant' Americans after Donald Trump re-election

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Sharon Stone has called her fellow Americans “ignorant” and “arrogant” after Donald Trump’s re-election.

The 66-year-old actress didn’t mention Trump by name, but she touched on politics during a scathing panel discussion at Italy’s Torino Film Festival that was shared to YouTube.

“We have to stop and think about who we choose for government and if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself,” she said. “You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before.”

Stone, who supported Trump’s Democratic rival Kamala Harris, said America “is in the midst of adolescence.”

“Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence,” the Basic Instinct star said.

She also accused her fellow citizens of being ignorant of what’s going on in the world.

“Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete,” Stone said. “What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.”

Back in July, Stone told the Daily Mail she would consider leaving America if Trump was re-elected.

“I am certainly considering a house in Italy,” Stone said. “I think that’s an intelligent construct at this time. This is one of the first times in my life that I’ve actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate and oppression.” 

And in August, she urged Americans to vote for Harris, calling Trump “a game show host who looks like a 1975 Vegas act.”

“I’m all in for Kamala Harris,” said Stone. “It’s not only because she’s a woman and because we see clearly in businesses that women leaders are better leaders, and that men who hire women within their companies do better … This is a qualified person,” she said at a gala event at the Paris Olympics.

Although she has been a frequent critic of Trump, back in 2020, Stone said she had “empathy” for the then-president, telling The Telegraph: “I think he’s had some childhood trauma. I look at this man and it feels to me like whatever his traumas are, he is torturing and hurting himself.”

Stone went on to say the same might be true of Trump’s supporters as well. “It’s affecting so many people that are coming out in support (of) him, with Nazi masks and all that stuff. Those are also people who have a heartbreaking level of internal rage, and that rage comes from feeling so insecure and so hurt.”

But Stone has been clearly out of sync with her fellow Americans. During this month’s hotly contested election, Trump marched to a resounding victory as he won all the battleground states that were up for grabs and captured the popular vote along the way.

mdaniell@postmedia.com