Sean Penn Recalls Dinner With Putin. Turns Out He Learned Same Thing As Trump.
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The actor took a walk down memory lane for his chat with the Russian president in Moscow.
Sean Penn now has something in common with President Donald Trump: They’ve both been manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Watch the video below.)
On Thursday, the “One Battle After Another” actor told Jimmy Kimmel about his dinner with the leader in 2001 when he and Jack Nicholson accompanied their movie “The Pledge” to the Moscow Film Festival. Kimmel had produced a photo of the two stars at a table with the Russian leader.
Penn said the encounter was “two to three weeks after then-President [George W.] Bush said, ‘I looked into his eyes and I felt I could trust him.’ And I have to say, when I say that, I was conned also. I felt that there was something genuine there.”
Pivoting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Oscar winner added: “Now we know that he’s very willing to kidnap 30,000 kids, murder a lot of people ... and teach those kids to hate their parents and their country.”
“And yet our country isn’t together enough to realize we should give [Ukraine] the resources to defeat [Putin],” Penn told Kimmel.
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