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

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.”

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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. Earlier in the festival, Alec Baldwin appeared to present a screening of his 1990 movie “The Hunt for Red October” and told press that “Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on,” he said.

“With climate change, Ukraine, Israel – you name it. All the biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information,” he added.

Back in July, Stone told The Daily Mail that she “considering” buying a house in Italy if Trump won the election because “this is one of the first times in my life that I’ve actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate and oppression.’