Sharon Stone trashes ‘uneducated’ Americans over Trump’s victory

Sharon Stone had harsh words for her fellow Americans over the weekend as she reflected on Donald Trump’s election victory.

Stone, a 66-year-old Pennsylvania native, ripped “80 percent” of Americans as being “uneducated” because they don’t have a passport — a number that is down by around 40 percent– and declared that the country is in its “ignorant, arrogant teenage years”.

“We haven’t seen this before in our country,” Stone said of fascism. “So Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivety. What I will say is that the only way we can help these problems is to help each other.”

The comments from Basic instinct star came after she was asked about violence against women during a press conference at the Turin Film Festival in Italy, where she received the Stella della Mole Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stone referred to Trump in her response and some conservative influencers has accused her of comparing the US president-elect to Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist former dictator

“You know, Italy has seen fascism,” Stone said. “Italy has seen these things. You guys – you understand what’s going on. You’ve seen this before (and we haven’t).”

Stone, who was nominated for an Oscar for her Casino performance in 1995, went on to talk about the importance of good men helping to protect women from those who abuse them.

“Now we can’t just say women help women because that’s the only way we’ve survived until now,” Stone said. “We must say that good men must help good men, and the good men must be very aware that many of their friends are not good men.”

“And we can’t keep pretending your friends are good men when they’re not good men,” she continued. “And you must be very clear and understand that your friends, who are not good men, are dangerous violent men. And you must keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, how bad men are bad.”

Trump’s cabinet picks have an eye-popping number of sexual assault allegations against them. Perhaps the appointee with the longest list of allegations was Matt Gaetz, who last week dropped his bid to become Trump’s attorney general because of the “distraction” his sex scandals caused Trump’s transition team.

MAGA influencers had seized on Stone’s veiled comments about Trump on Tuesday.

Riley Gaines, who used her defiance to compete against a transgender swimmer to vault her into a right-wing influencer, was among those who lashed out at Stone.

“These out of touch Hollywood elitists calling the American electorate uneducated is hypocrisy at its height,” said the 24-year-old Gaines. “They lecture from their ivory towers while being completely detached from the everyday reality most Americans face.”

Stone has been outspoken against Trump in the past. This summer she has said she considered moving to Europe because of Trump’s growing popularity in the state and his platform of “hate.”

“I’ve always been a very proud American and I love my country very much,” she said in July, Deadline reported. “Obviously, I’m deeply concerned about what’s happening in my country now. This is one of the first times in my life that I’ve actually seen someone run for office on a platform of hatred and oppression.”

“I would like to believe that my country has all the qualities that we have always stood for – independence, courage, dignity – and that all the other countries that we have stood for will stand by us as we go through this troubling time,” Stone added. But it seems she now believes the re-election of Donald Trump has proven her wrong.