'Family Ties' star Justine Bateman says Trump's election has lifted a 'heavy cloud' over free speech

PERFECT – Writer and film producer Justine Bateman has expressed hope for the country following President-elect Donald Trump's historic victory, saying it feels like a cloud has been lifted.

“I feel great. I feel great, actually,” Bateman told Fox News Digital in an interview. “I feel like there was this kind of suffocating cloud that was over us… it kind of broke.”

Bateman, best known for playing Mallory Keaton on the hit 1980s sitcom “Family Ties,” has recently gone viral for referring to the past four years as a “very un-American era” for free speech and that only “permissive positions” were accepted. with the available power.

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“My belief is that everyone should be free to live their life the way they want to live it. But not to interfere with someone else's ability to live as freely as they want to live,” Bateman told Fox News Digital.

“So, what was un-American four or so years ago was that one couldn't even ask a question about something. One couldn't even engage in a debate about things like women in sports, about trans women … women's locker rooms or bathrooms or prisons and not allowing the public to freely engage about the benefits and risks of these types of decisions, I think that's un-American and shut up or we're going to destroy your career or we're going to destroy you in society,' ” he added.

Bateman does not subscribe to any political party, but he found the team around Trump “very interesting,” namely Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and what he will do about health and environmental issues in the next administration, and Elon Musk's effort. to make the government work well.

He said their “strong position” on free speech won him over.

“I'm just one person. This is my experience. And if someone has a different experience, that's also valid. There's a place for every experience. There's a place for every opinion. There's a place for every thought. That's my point,” Bateman said. “And that's the American way. And we Americans are going to keep that. It's the American way of letting everyone express themselves. But like I said, you can't hurt someone else's ability to express themselves freely.”

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Bateman said he felt “great” after President-elect Donald Trump's historic victory. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The economy has also been a motivating issue for Bateman at the ballot box.

“The economy is out of control,” he said. “I mean, the amount of money we've printed … anyone who's ever sat through the first week of an Econ 101 class studying Venezuela … and I'm confused how a bunch of adults are going to start printing a volume of money that was printed and think there's not going to be a problem with that.”

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Bateman said he looks forward to seeing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. what are you going to do about dealing with life in the Trump administration. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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In addition to making films, Bateman leads the CREDO23 Council, a group of industry experts fighting Hollywood's growing reliance on artificial intelligence.

The CREDO23 Council will be hosting its first film festival this spring featuring films using zero generation AI.