John Leguizamo Says Trump is the Best Thing to Happen to Latin People
John Leguizamo, the man who can pronounce his own last name in 100 different ways, told America last night that Donald Trump is the best thing that’s ever happened to Latinos. Leguizamo was appearing on the Late Show last night with Stephen Colbert, and explained. “Activists have been trying to unify us for years to get us out to register, to vote, to speak up, to get a Latin Spring going, and Trump’s done that for us. We’re registering in ridiculous numbers all around the country. Republican Cubans in Florida are not going to vote for Trump, and now Florida is not so run by the Latin Republican Cubans.”
John will be down in Florida on October 11 registering Latinos to vote. The election, he said, is too close for comfort. “All my family’s nervous, everyone’s got a knot in their stomach, we’re all eating too much comfort food, too many Dunkin’ Donuts and burgers, cause we’re just nervous.”
Fun fact, John was once a question on the SATs. Someone on team Colbert discovered an SAT practice test (taken from former actual exams) with this question:
By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one man show, John Leguizamo provides a _____ to the theater’s tendency to offer a limited range of roles for Latino actors. The response choices were a) corrective, b) tribute, c) corollary, d) stimulus, or e) precursor.
Don’t feel bad if you get it wrong- Leguizamo did too. (the answer by the way is – a) corrective).
Johnny Legs was on the Late Show promoting his series Bloodline, currently streaming on Netflix, and you’ll also want to keep an eye out for his new show, Latin History for Morons. He conceived the show when he realized that there is a rich Latino history in America that most people don’t know about. “Everybody’s really a moron when it comes to Latin History; even I was a moron. That’s why I wrote the show because I didn’t know anything about Latin history. We Latin people discovered this country, we fought every single war this country’s ever had, the largest minority to serve in every war, the most decorated minority in every war, Revolutionary War, Civil War, War of 1812. 10,000 Latinos fought in the Revolutionary War. We had generals!”
He also refers to Columbus as the Donald Trump of the New World because of the business tactics. “Columbus comes to the New World, says he give me your cotton, your silver, and I’m going to give you all these great mirrors here. So he gets a country and they get mirrors.”
Watch the clip below.
