Rob Reiner on Trump: We have Archie Bunker in the White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Actor Rob Reiner compared President Trump to sitcom character Archie Bunker on Friday, telling CBS's Stephen Colbert that the country is "living" the sitcom "All in the Family" in real life.

Reiner said on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Friday night that the bigoted Bunker character bears comparisons to Trump.

"People always say, 'you could redo "All in the Family" today,' [but] I said 'What do you mean? We're living it,' " Reiner, who also starred on the show, told Colbert.

"We've got Archie in the White House," Reiner said to applause.

Reiner's comments echo those of Norman Lear, the creator of "All in the Family," who said in 2016 that Trump and Bunker were essentially the same.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/400387-rob-reiner-on-trump-we-have-archie-bunker-in-the-white-house

Well they're both from Queens.

[htuttle]

1. Archie would never have cheated on Edith

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Good point! nt

[oberliner]

5. "You got to believe me Edith, nothing was ever constipated"

[ooky]

16. Or cower to a Russian dictator.

[hunter]

17. And Archie wasn't stupid or demented.

U.S.A.

[mainstreetonce]

2. Archie didn't abuse women.

Or play footsie with Russians.

I'd take Archie over trump.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. Funny, I was just thinking an All in the Family reboot would be great.

...where the new Archie is again, the butt of all the jokes and comes off as profoundly absurd and stupid to the point of hilarity.

Laughter and smart comedy is good medicine in this day.

[oberliner]

8. I'm sure Sally Struthers would be up for it!

[murielm99]

6. Archie was uneducated

and bigoted. But Archie had a heart. He loved his family. He was continually shocked when he learned that all different types of people were not unlike him in what they wanted and needed. I don't think Archie would have had it in him to be a cruel despot.

[oberliner]

9. Also, he's a fictional character created by Norman Lear

[murielm99]

25. I hope you read all the other posts in this thread.

Your sour attitude does not seem to be contagious in this thread, at least.

[oberliner]

27. Wasn't meant to be sour

Just saying Archie is a creation of the great Norman Lear as part of a television show.

[JHB]

7. No. Archie wasn't actively mean...

He was lazy in his assumptions, overly confident in how he pigeon-holed his views of the world, and real slow to pick up on when he was just being a jackass, but he wasn't impenetrable.

He was a sucker for praise, up until he figured out he was being scammed.

He was a bigot, but paused when he realized his new pals were Klansmen.

Archie had a conscience and moral center. Faulty, but working.

Trump has none.

[smirkymonkey]

11. This! Archie was a flawed and ignorant man, but he was not mean, petty, stupid

and hateful like Trump. Nor did he share the hundreds of other detestable qualities that Trump possesses. No comparison.

[msongs]

13. and he was willing to change his views, perhaps only slightly, but willing nt

[BlueStater]

10. Except that Bunker was actually a good man underneath all his flaws.

While I can't think of one single redeeming quality Trump possesses as a human being.

[ooky]

18. Yep.

Archie was a saint compared to Trump.

[pecosbob]

12. Archie always reminded me of the expression

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Archie on his worst day was never like Trump.

n/t

[Blue_true]

15. Archie Bunker actually lampooned the sad state of race relations the existed then.

People are upset with cops killing unarmed Black people today, it was much worse when the Archie Bunker character was developed, but it was not caught on camera like today.

Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) and Norman Lear (show's creator and producer), were pretty much well ahead of their time as progressive voices against injustices that existed in society during their time.

[yonder]

19. That was a great interview with Rob Reiner last night.

Hell, it was a good show all around. Towards the end of his interview he pretty much summed up the state of mainstream media by commenting "the truth doesn't pay". His talk about very good reporters and reporting getting bottled up when it "hits that wall" was interesting too.

[Hoyt]

20. Reiner is as very good last night.

[Autumn]

21. Lear may have created Archie Bunker but he didn't know Arche Bunker.

He was a good man, uneducated but decent and willing to learn. He wasn't mean and his family was important to him, he would never have considered his daughter to be a sex object worthy of himself.

[skylucy]

22. Archie wasn't a draft dodger.

[tblue37]

23. Archie was a bigot, but he did have a basic core of decency that occasionally came to the surface. n

[madinmaryland]

24. Archie Bunker was not a narcissist. nt

[True Dough]

26. "Aaaachie, you're a disgrace to the country!"

[Bluepinky]

28. Archie didn't watch Fox News or listen to right wing talk radio, so he wasn't brainwashed.

He had his biases, but he was open to reality and willing to change his beliefs when it was shown they were wrong. Eliminating “ The Fairness Doctrine” during Reagan’s tenure went a long way to getting the terrible right wing media we have now.

[SummerSnow]

29. Archie wasn't attracted to his daughter Gloria. Trump is attracted to his daughter