Sharon Stone Says America Is ‘Naive and Ignorant and Arrogant’ After Donald Trump Win: ‘My Country Is in the Midst of Adolescence’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sharon Stone made headlines in July when she said that she’d likely buy a house in Italy and move out of the United States if Donald Trump was reelected president.

While the jury is still out on whether the Oscar nominee will leave the U.S. now that Trump has been voted back into office, Stone did recently appear at Italy’s Torino Film Festival (via USA Today) and blasted “ignorant” and “arrogant” Americans for the election outcome. “We have to stop and think about who we choose for government and if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself,” Stone said in an apparent reference to Trump. “You know, Italy has seen fascism.

Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before.” Stone told the festival audience that “my country is in the midst of adolescence.

Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.” “Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté,” Stone added. “What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.” Stone attended this year’s Torino Film Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award.