Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson told conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos he wants to be a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump.
Promoting his new film Torchbearer, a faith-based historical look at the perils of losing religious belief, Robertson told The Milo Yiannopoulos podcast that if the presumptive Republican presidential nominee reached out to him for spiritual guidance, he would guide Trump for America’s sake.
Robertson told Milo: “As a loyal Republican I’m going with the man the people want. It wouldn’t hurt anything if Trump gets in and you see a picture when he wins the election and the camera pans by and his spiritual advisor is me. If you want to shake America, that will shake America. ”
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The Duck Dynasty patriarch, speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, said of becoming Trump’s faith-based adviser: “If he asked me, I would say ‘yes.'” He added: “He came forth because of the frustration, the anger…America is not going to collapse. It is in the process of collapsing now. You can get away with a lot when people are frustrated and angry at the status quo.”
But Robertson added: “I’m not into politics per se.…politicians, prime ministers, presidents, kings, they come and go. But God is always there.”
Milo, who has announced his desire to be Trump’s press secretary, is keen for Robertson to join Team Trump. He told him: “He doesn’t seem to be the Godliest of men, but Donald Trump, I think a little bit like you, maybe sticks up a middle finger to the progressive establishment, speaks a common language and plain sense and is annoying all the right people.”
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The pair’s get-together at the Cannes Film Festival is one of the unlikeliest happenings on the Croisette since Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed his muscles as a 29-year-old bodybuilder to promote weightlifting documentary Pumping Iron in 1977.
Torchbearer, produced by conservative research organization Citizens United, is narrated by Robertson, who said the film aligns with his view that America is undergoing a spiritual crisis. He said: “I’m basically narrating an historical account of what happens when empires or individuals, for that matter, remove God as their anchor. Men determine right and wrong instead of God and determine good and evil instead of God.”
But Robertson, 70, added: “I’m not a bona fide, certified, seminary-trained anything. I’m just a guy who lives on the river.” He attributed the success of Duck Dynasty to its depicting a “functional family…gathering around a table and thanking God for our meal.”
Milo came out as a fan of Torchbearer, telling his guest: “This is a slightly more erudite vehicle for you than you’ve been in up till now…this shows the Phil Robertson the theologian, even a scholar slightly. You have a deep historical perspective on this stuff and you have a thesis that you follow through history. This is the stuff that academics do, not typically that people we come to know through reality shows.”
Things got confessional when Robertson admitted, “I used to get high and drunk and laid myself but I didn’t know what I just told you of.” Milo replied: “These are things that I, too, have been guilty of. I’ve had some disreputable tendencies in my life.”
Robertson responded: “I guessed that you probably were a sinner like me.” Milo mused: “I think I probably still am.”