Michael Douglas revealed he celebrated a hole-in-one on the golf course after being so distraught over Donald Trump’s victory he had to play a round to “clear his mind.”
The 80-year-old actor shared the anecdote during an appearance on Bill Maher’s show following the blowout election and admitted he was left stunned by the results.
“The other thing I just have to share, after Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, [I’m] just so p****d at this razor-thin race,” he said. “It was gonna be so close, with all these polls… and it’s a wipeout. I had no idea how that could happen.”
“So, I go down Wednesday morning to play golf just to clear my mind. I go play nine holes, and I get a hole-in-one,” he added.
It is not the first time Douglas has waded into politics, and the Oscar winner is a vocal Democrat known to host fundraisers for the party at his home.
In July, he joined a wave of celebrities and politicos calling for Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance with Donald Trump.
He said he was “disappointed” at Biden’s doomed candidacy, a message he echoed this week opposite Maher as they discussed the presidential election.
“The very fact now that we can talk about Republicans as being the party for the people, and we are this elitist party on the left, Democrats, is wild,” he said.
Asked how Benjamin Franklin – who Douglas portrays on Apple TV’s Franklin series – would have reacted to the results, he replied, “Oh, I think he’d have had another drink.”
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