Actor and humanitarian Sean Penn stopped by The Sean Hannity Show on Tuesday to talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Penn was in Ukraine filming a documentary for Vice when the invasion began, and has since traveled back to the country.
Hannity began the interview by bringing up his initial contact with Penn. “I made the first phone call to you,” Hannity said. “Do you remember what you first said to me?”
“I said ‘I don’t trust you,'” Penn replied.
Laughing, Hannity asked, “Is there a reason you don’t trust me?”
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“Yeah,” Penn said, “there’s a lot of reasons I don’t trust you. But we have to get on with life. We all talk about how divisive things are, how divided things are here. When you step into a country of incredible unity, you realize what we’ve all been missing. I don’t think I’ve got time to indulge my lack of trust, which becomes a petty thing. These people are fighting for the dreams and aspirations of all of us Americans.”
“I don’t think that I’ve got time to indulge my lack of trust, which becomes a petty thing as people, and babies, are being vaporized,” Penn added. “And that these people are fighting for the very dreams that are the aspirations of all of us Americans. We talked about that, too, and we agreed on that.”
But Hannity wasn’t quite through. Later in the interview, Penn spoke about his first conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last fall.
“It’s interesting,” Penn said. “We had met initially on a Zoom call back…” “Did you trust him?” Hannity interrupted, “A lot more than me.”
“I was interested to see who he was,” Penn responded, “I didn’t have the baggage with him I have with you.”
“What is the baggage?” Hannity asked. “We never met before.”
That baggage turned out to be a 2007 segment in which Hannity referred to Penn as an “all-around very angry man” and dubbed him an “enemy of the state” for speaking out about the Bush administration.
“As a badge of honor at my house,” Penn said, “I got the full screen that I dominate as an enemy of the state with you in the foreground.”
Hannity pressed the trust issue yet again at the end of the interview, asking, “Do you trust me? Did I keep my word? So why don’t you trust me?”
Penn wrapped it up with an analogy. “You know what happens is that there’s a lot of physical therapy necessary after a big car accident,” he said. “You don’t get it all done in a day.”
ZzBomb
Of course Penn is trying to highlight the atrocities happening in Ukraine, while Hannity tries to pivot and make it all about him and why Penn would, understandably, not trust him. What a child.
bachy
Regardless of whether they manage to vocalize a stringent adherence to the latest gay ideological talking points, I admire Americans like Penn, who exhibit a commitment to the American vision of freedom and equality, especially in comparison to slithering careerists like Hannity, whose only commitment is to ratings and professional advancement.
white-queer-african
I totally agree with both @ZzBomb and @bachy and their take on the matter.
Now we wait for @GayForTrump troll to come and spew it’s vitriol and hatred!
CatholicXXX
Fox News has more liberal viewers than conservatives nuts because they like watching a good train wreck.
johncp56
I did not see it all but the opening, Sean P was to the point (I do not trust you!,) and why, but I,m glad to see the strong liberals on those shows, making guys like Hannity and tucker squirm like the worms that they are!