Hollywood actor Sharon Stone has suggested that "uneducated" men helped propel Donald Trump to his decisive victory during the recent presidential election.
Hours after polls closed across the U.S. on November 5, Republican nominee Trump was declared the winner following a hotly contested race that saw Kamala Harris step in a few months ahead of election day after President Joe Biden dropped out.
In the weeks since the result, a number of celebrities have publicly shared their views on the matter, with some celebrating and others commiserating.
Stone most recently shared her cutting take on the election outcome when she attended a press conference at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy. The screen star is one of the honorees given this year's Stella della Mole prize.
Sharon Stone says Trump won because Americans 'don't travel & are uneducated.'
"Keep them away from your daughters, your wives, & your girlfriends." pic.twitter.com/GyTvoiisi8
When asked about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which fell on November 25, she responded: "We have to stop and think about who we choose for government. And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself."
"Italy has seen fascism," Stone further told the audience. "Italy has seen these things—you guys, you understand what happens. You have seen this before."
"My country is in its adolescence," the Pennsylvania native continued. "Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant, and we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence."
Without directly naming Trump, Stone added: "We haven't seen this before in our country. So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete."
A video clip of Stone's comments has been shared on X, formerly Twitter, where as of press time it had garnered more than 900,000 views. Newsweek contacted representatives of Trump and Stone via email for comment.
Elsewhere in her speech, Stone opined that "good men must help good men," while being aware that they could well be friends with "dangerous, violent men."
"What I can say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other," she said. "Now, we can't just say that women should help women, because that's the only way we have survived so far.
"We must say that good men must help good men, and those good men must be very aware that a lot of your friends are not good men. And you can't continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they are not good men.
"And you must be very clear-minded and understand that your friends who are not good men are dangerous, violent men, and you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends. Because this is a time when we know can no longer look away when bad men are bad."
Ahead of the election, Stone said in late July that she was considering a move to Europe if Trump were to be successful in his election efforts.
"I am certainly considering a house in Italy," she told the Daily Mail. "I think that's an intelligent construct at this time."
Speaking of Trump, she added: "This is one of the first times in my life that I've actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate and oppression."
Stone has yet to publicly comment on whether she will move forward with plans to leave the U.S.
An exit poll showed a larger percentage of unmarried women voted for Trump in this year's election than in 2020, despite the prediction of a major voting gender gap.
Historically, more women have voted for Democrats, while more men have voted for Republicans. The gender gap was a major theme in the run-up in this year's election, with the divide predicted at one point to be the largest in history.
However, a CNN exit poll showed that fewer unmarried women voted for Kamala Harris than in 2020, when Biden was its candidate, while more voted for Trump.
Some 59 percent of unmarried women cast a ballot for Harris, while 38 percent backed Trump, according to the poll, which questioned 22,914 people. In 2020, 63 percent of unmarried women backed Biden while 36 percent voted for Trump, according to the poll, which questioned 15,590 people.
The exit poll followed an election in which women's issues such as abortion were a significant topic for voters and both campaigns.
Abortion has been a key issue since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, as many Republican-controlled states have put abortion restrictions into effect, with 21 states banning or restricting the medical practice at every stage of pregnancy.
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