Stone is no fan of Trump’s policies and has critiqued him on multiple occasions. He once referred to the former president as a “mad King Lear” whose ego is dangerous for the country.

Still, the veteran filmmaker believes that the frivolous criminal cases launched against Trump just before the election highlight America’s corrupt political system.

“Corruption is a way of life,” he said. It goes back to the Greeks, the Romans, and before that the Babylonians, There’s corruption all through history, so let’s not be Pollyannas about it and think we’re ‘America the clean’ and we’re better than anybody else. That’s such bullsh**.”