Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman has claimed that Donald Trump is leading the country down a 'sh*thole' comparable to Nazi Germany.
Freeman, 88, made the claim during an appearance on left-leaning MS NOW when asked about the current state of the US.
Following a lengthy lull, the actor asked Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell whether he was able 'to use profanity' in his response - a hint of what was to come.
Freeman - an acting legend - let loose shortly afterwards.
'Well, we have somebody sitting in the White House is leading us down a sh*thole,' he fumed.
'I can't personally understand how a convicted felon convicted, 34, felon, felonious is that a word, counts of wrongdoing gets to be president. How do you do that?'
O'Donnell, 74, went on to ask: 'With your life experience, did it feel like we were going backwards?' while quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freeman looked to the past for his answer, before forecasting the future.
Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman has claimed that Donald Trump is leading the country down a 'sh*thole' in an interview with MS NOW on Thursday
'I'm constantly reminded of Germany in 1935,'
the actor said, before drawing parallels between the president's immigration crackdown and concentration camps where millions were killed
'I'm constantly reminded of Germany in 1935,'
he outright said.
'What was happening there, the Brownshirts, those people that are marching through, particularly Berlin and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars, sending them off.'
His subsequent response appeared to draw parallels between Nazi concentration camps where millions were killed and immigration detention centers being used for Trump's immigration crackdown.
'I don't know what I would say to young people, other than, if you are at all aware of where we're headed, where we are right now and where we're headed,'
Freeman said.
'And if you don't agree with it, there was one sure way to change the direction of our country: vote.'
Freeman went on to discuss his new Civil War-set miniseries for Amazon , The Gray House, which he helped produce. The series released in full the same day as the interview.
'You teamed up with Kevin Costner producing this, and you got an incredible cast,' O'Donnell said. 'Have you seen any part of it yet?'
'Yes, yes. It's a spellbinding, I think,'
the longtime A-lister said.
'What was happening there, the Brownshirts, those people that are marching through, particularly Berlin and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars, sending them off,'
Freeman said
Freeman went on to plug his new Civil War-set miniseries for Amazon during the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell appearance. The eight-part series, which Freeman produced, released in full the same day
Freeman starred in his first theatrical release in years just a few months ago, in November, with Now You See Me: Now You Don't. At the time, he put to bed any rumors of his approaching retirement.
Freeman told The Guardian: 'Sometimes the idea of retirement would float past me but, as soon as my agent says there's a job or somebody wants you or they've made an offer, the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday.
'"How much you're going to pay, where we're gonna be?"' he said. 'The appetite is still there. I will concede that it's dimmed a little. But not enough to make a serious difference.'