Senior man standing star Tim Allen described his silence about former President Donald Trump as not joining the “lynching crowd”.
In a long interview at Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, conservative Allen explained why he stays away from discussing politics. “I literally don’t preach anything,” Allen said to Maron. “What I did is not, as I call it, the ‘culture of we’. I’m not telling anyone how to live. “
Allen continued: “I don’t like this, ‘we should do this’ or ‘we should do that'”. Regarding Trump, Allen said, “As soon as I realized that the last president pissed people off, I kind of liked that. So it was fun to just say nothing. He did not join the lynching crowd. “
THE Home improvement star also shared his anti-tax stance: “As soon as I started making money, I had a silent partner who took almost half of my money and never gave me anything for it and it was taxes”.
He added: “I work a lot for these things, I have achieved a lot and I have been hampered by my own mistakes … but I had this silent partner. I never liked taxes. ”He said the silent partner was” the government “.
Allen also spoke to Maron about the 1978 drug arrest that put him behind bars for more than two years. “After my old man died,” he said, “I really just played with people and told adults what they wanted to hear and then stole their drinks.” He was arrested with a pound of cocaine at a Michigan airport when he was 23 – the same number of years he’s been sober.
“I literally learned how to live day to day,” said Allen of his time in prison. “And I learned to shut up. You definitely want to learn to shut up. “