It sounds too good to be true: Al Pacino has joined workforce MAGA, narrating a brief viral video concerning the political comeback of President Donald Trump.
And, identical to all issues that sound too good to be true, it’s, becoming although the voiceover could seem.
The video gained traction as a result of it was reposted by Juanita Broaddrick — the now-conservative activist who obtained embroiled within the political world after she accused former President Invoice Clinton, beneath oath, of raping her when he was governor of Arkansas.
“I woke as much as this video. Al Pacino joins MAGA. WOW!!!” she mentioned.
The video begins with Trump strolling down a hallway and Pacino narrating: “Three minutes to the most important battle of our skilled lives, all comes right down to right now. Both we heal as a workforce, or we’re going to crumble, inch by inch, play by play, ’til we’re completed.”
Then, Trump getting hit by a would-be murderer’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Pacino: “We’re in hell proper now.” A montage of clips concerning these speaking in regards to the assassination and an insinuation of who may need been behind this all (Chuck Schumer, on an unrelated topic: “You tackle the intelligence group, they’ve six methods from Sunday of getting again at you”). There’s additionally Elon Musk praising him for pumping his fist “with blood streaming down his face.”
“That is instinctual braveness,” Musk says.
Pacino once more: “We will keep right here, get the s*** kicked out of us, or we are able to battle our manner again into the sunshine. We will climb out of hell.” Footage of Trump at his trials and his mug shot.
Then, a photograph exhibiting how shut the bullet got here. Pacino: “One inch at a time.”
“Now, I can’t do it for you,” Pacino says. “I’m too outdated. The inches we’d like are in every single place round us.” Trump strolling with ear bandaged out to the Republican Nationwide Conference.
“They’re in each break of the sport, each minute, each second,” Pacino’s narration continues. “On this workforce, we battle for that inch. On this workforce, we tear ourselves and everybody else round us to items for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch as a result of we all know after we add up all these inches, that’s going to make the f***ing distinction between profitable and shedding! Between residing and dying!”
“I’ll let you know this, in any battle, it’s the man who’s prepared to die, who’s going to win that inch,” Pacino says, together with textual content on the display screen that claims “Our battle has simply begun.”
And it continues, with triumphal footage of Trump. It’s an inspiring speech, though it doesn’t fairly match the fabric. And the primary signal that one thing is off, if you happen to aren’t conversant in the supply materials or didn’t see the group notes on it, is the looks of (sigh) Alex Jones and the Infowars.com emblem on display screen — with Jones speaking about “taking our nation again,” presumably one bottle of overpriced nutritional vitamins at a time:
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I woke as much as this video. Al Pacino joins MAGA. WOW!!! pic.twitter.com/LJIRoeXPds
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 19, 2025
As for Pacino himself, it’s price noting he’s largely stayed out of politics in his public life.
Even his alternative of initiatives may provide you with one impression or one other. Take his function as a whistleblower on police misconduct (“Serpico”) or a person robbing a financial institution to pay for his male lover’s gender-reassignment surgical procedure at a time when such topics have been much more taboo (“Canine Day Afternoon”) and you could possibly get the impression he’s a progressive. Or, take a look at his function as a sympathetic blind Vietnam veteran and retired colonel (“Scent of a Lady”) or as Devil in a film that argues supernatural evil could be very actual and all-too-tempting (“The Satan’s Advocate”), and you could possibly forged him as a conservative.
The purpose is, no person is aware of, however he’s undoubtedly not on team MAGA.
And the phrases he’s talking have been at the least partially penned, and in a film directed by, a person who undoubtedly isn’t: ultra-progressive Oliver Stone, who has put out a hagiographical documentary about his friendship with brutal Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez (“Mi Amigo Hugo“), amongst different extra well-known leftist cinematic detritus.
On this case, it’s from one in all his less-political works — though nonetheless fairly meh, if you happen to’ve by no means seen it — 1999’s “Any Given Sunday,” which takes on the brutal, cutthroat world {of professional} soccer, and involves the conclusion that it’s (prepare for this scorching cinematic take), actually, brutal and/or cutthroat.
Provided that the NFL clearly wasn’t going at hand over the rights to Oliver freaking Stone, this monologue comes earlier than a championship recreation — which is certainly not modeled on the Super Bowl in any manner — by which Pacino, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks, offers a speech even Vince Lombardi would have been envious of, as a result of it was written by Hollywood folks making a big-budget film:
Regardless of the case, if the looks of Alex Jones on the finish didn’t tip you off to the veracity of this, no, this wasn’t Pacino going all-in with MAGA. It’s additionally fascinating to see Jones — a person who will not be wholly unfamiliar with the interiors of civil courtrooms — tempting the legal professionals of a man nearly too liberal for Hollywood with a video that actually, let’s consider, might increase some questions on truthful use doctrine.
So, no, Pacino isn’t going to be on stage with Trump, J.D., Melania and Elon anytime quickly. Sorry to disappoint you.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
