14 DAY TRIAL // Charlie Sheen, aka the MaSheen, may have a huge surprise for the Presidential elections in 2016: “Sheen and Sheen ’16.” In a chat for The Flipside with Michael Loftus, the actor says he’s actually considered running for US President at next year’s elections.
And he already knows who his Vice President will be and the first 3 things he’d do as “King of America.” Video of the entire interview is available below.
Charlie Sheen for President
At the beginning of the interview, Sheen talks about how he got into acting and whether he’d ever want to go behind the camera for a change, revealing that he has a script written that he thinks is “actually amazing.”
Then things get serious, or at the very least, as serious as you’d expect them on a comedy show.
He says he’s been conducting his own polls and knows for a fact that people would vote for him if he announced tomorrow he was running for President of the United States, like “100 percent.” Politics have become entertainment and he would bring to the table a policy of truth and transparency, and thus help make everything better.
He would appoint his father, Martin Sheen as VP, and he would pass 3 very important laws after he’d win: he would put an armed war vet outside every school for protection, he would set a flat 10 percent income tax, and he would mandate by law that everyone relax.
He would deliver interesting debates
Sheen might be talking to the host of a comedy show (and a longtime collaborator, because Loftus has been on the staff of his “Anger Management” since day 1), but he’s probably not entirely joking about this.
He even seems to have given some thought to how a debate with another candidate would play out on TV and he’s not worried in the least, because he would stay, as promised, truthful about everything. That includes his many drunken and drugged binges, his love for adult stars, and his more recent troubled years, including the infamous meltdown he had when he was fired from “Two and a Half Men” for refusing to get clean and sober up.
“Imagine being in a debate,” he says. “The guy's like ‘Well, you did this!’ and I'm like ‘Aaaand?’ What are they going to tell me about during the debate? ‘How about the time…?’ and I'd say ‘So?’”
However, he’s convinced his opponent wouldn’t be as open and honest about the skeletons in his or her closet, but he’d be willing to find that out by confronting them on live TV.