Actor Chris Pratt tells “Club Random” host Bill Maher that he’d hate to be one of the people “mired in hatred” for President Donald Trump.

BILL MAHER: Right now, [Secretary of Health and Human Services] Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] way more on the left vaccines than I am. I’m skeptical of all medical interventions, including vaccines. He’s, he said things I don’t agree with, but if he would just take those two issues, I think he’d get more toward the middle of where people are, which is like, they kind of get it that what makes them sick is all the shit in the water and the air and the food and giving kids pharmaceuticals when they’re young and like lots of things where we’re self polluting. CHRIS PRATT: Yes. Including stress and social media and being on screens all day and what that does to your pituitary gland and all this stuff. He’s not, so his big picture, I feel like, yes, I’m glad he’s there doing that, but then he gets specific about things and I know why people say he’s nutty. PRATT: Right. MAHER: Do they, do people ask you about him? PRATT: Yeah, sometimes. I mean, I don’t know. I kind of feel the same way that you do. Like I’ve spent a, you know, number of occasions hanging with him just in a strictly, you know, family dinner kind of vibe and I really got along with him well. He’s great. I think he’s great. I think he’s funny. MAHER: He’s wonderful. PRATT: I like him. Yes. I love him. MAHER: I think he’s, uh. And he’s not crazy. I mean, the people trying to, he’s, he’s also got, like I said to him when he was here, I said, I don’t agree with everything you said and I don’t think your father would either, but your father would be so proud that you stuck to your guns like more than anybody. I mean, this guy, you can, when this guy believes something, you cannot move him off of it with your bribes. Yeah, you’re right. For better and worse. PRATT: That’s, that’s a virtue. MAHER: And it’s rare. PRATT: And I think that, uh, you know, politics, it’s a nasty business. So when you jump in and I’ve seen, and I’m not in politics, obviously, but there’s a certain level, uh, to this in, in Hollywood, because Hollywood itself is political, political, you know, institution. And, and I’ve seen, I’ve seen how the person you are can be so, so such a contrast to the people, to, to the person that people are being told that you are. And you can go, wow, that is, that is pure fiction and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people are being fed that. And I’m not there to defend myself, nor am I going to jump in and be mired in this story because there’s this proverb, Proverb 26:20, for lack of wood, the fire will go out. And you’re like, okay, so someone tweeted something. It’s not real. 300,000 people liked it. Am I going to shine this light of 50, 70 million people onto this — MAHER: No. I don’t even read them. PRATT: And so, so, so my little bit of experience, I’ve been able to see how the person that you are can be sometimes in stark contrast to the person that, that your enemy is saying that you are. And in politics, you, you inherit enemies. And when you jump on, in, in, on, you know, the, the bandwagon with who is, you know, the most divisive president ever, it makes sense that you’re going to be made to look terrible. And so I don’t know what to believe because it’s not like I sit with Bobby and I go, so, Hey, let’s talk about this. Let’s talk about, it’s like, we’re just playing cards or playing mafia or having fun or having dinner. I’m not going to pick his brain to find out exactly which of those things are true. I just kind of assume that none of them are. And for the most part, I wish him well, man, I hope there’s certain things that he oversees that seem to be supported in a bipartisan way, like getting terrible, toxic stuff out of our kids’ food. I think that’s a great thing. MAHER: Of course. PRATT: And so like, just, if you just do that, that’s amazing. I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I’d be having an allergic reaction to, to be like, “Oh, well, if they do it, I don’t want it to happen.” I’ll feed my, I’ll put Clorox in my children’s cereal myself. You know, say, come on, have some, be reasonable here. There’s certain things that would be a good thing to have. I want them all to be successful. MAHER: You know, when it comes to like the media, like you were saying, and like what they say about you, people have to understand our cynicism or I won’t include you. I’ll just say mine about the media comes from something that most people do not have access to that we have access to, which is we read things about ourselves. Right. Most people don’t. Right. Okay. So, and you go, if you got this much wrong about something where I know what the truth is, what are you getting wrong about the other thing that’s so in my mind, you know, like you can’t really expect me to trust you after you said this and this and this, and maybe you really thought it, if that’s the case, then you’re just kind of dumb and lazy. Lazy, didn’t do your homework, would have been so easy to look it up. Right. Or you’re just slanted. You’re just like, oh, he’s on the bad team because he had dinner with Trump or whatever your reason this week is. And so I’m just going to shit on that and like, okay, but then don’t expect me to believe you about anything.

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