Actor Scott Baio is the latest celebrity to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The former Happy Days star said that the businessman “speaks like I speak.”
In an interview with Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro, Baio said that he wants Trump to go into Washington and “blow it up,” adding that he’s “fed up” with the status quo.
Hollywood conservative Scott Baio tells us who he's supporting for president. #JudgeJeanine
Posted by Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday, March 19, 2016
“I’m done with the Republicans,” Baio said. “They’ve lied and conned and B.S.’ed me for a very long time.”
The actor said he doesn’t even consider himself a Republican any more, but a “conservative independent.”
“We need somebody to relentlessly attack Hillary,” he said. “That’s the only way we’re going to win, because it’s ‘getting above the fray and not getting in the dirt and we’re better than that’... doesn’t work any more.”
Baio is the latest celebrity conservative to support Trump. Singer Aaron Carter, the late John Wayne’s daughter and even Joel Osteen have all had good things to say about Trump.
Baio was last seen in the Nickelodeon series See Dad Run. In 2012, he did endorse former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.