Woody Allen: Trump Was Pleasant, Professional and Polite on Set

Woody Allen says he disagrees with President Donald Trump 95 percent of the time on political issues.

Maybe 99 percent.

Still, the legendary writer/director had nothing but kind things to say about the 47th president during a candid conversation with Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast.

Professionally speaking.

Allen, who admitted to pulling the lever for Kamala Harris last year, praised the future president on an artistic level.

“I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump,” Allen said, referring to a small role the mogul had in his 1998 film “Celebrity.”

The comedy starred Kenneth Branagh as an Allen-like writer who takes a career detour into the world of celebrity journalism. The starry cast included Winona Ryder, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judy Davis and Charlize Theron.

“He was very easy to work with,” Allen said of Trump. “As an actor, he was very good, very convincing. He had a charismatic quality as an actor. I’m surprised he wanted to get into politics.”

Maher broke bread with President Trump earlier this year and got compared to a Nazi for doing so. The podcast host noted that Trump can be very different off-camera than on, both in a political and professional sense.

“They all have to put on a certain patina for the public,” Allen said of the political class. “I can only judge what I know from directing him in film, and he was pleasant to work with, very professional and very polite to everyone.

“I would like to direct him now as president and let me make the decisions,” he deadpanned.

The comments recall similar statements made by “Saturday Night Live’s” Darrell Hammond. The versatile mimic also praised Trump, not as a political figure but as a performer.

Maher quipped that Allen would suffer a fresh wave of Cancel Culture attacks for his Trump praise.

Earlier in the conversation, Maher and Allen lightly addressed the director’s Hollywood banishment for allegations that he sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992.

He has denied the charges and has never been prosecuted for the alleged crime. A 2021 docuseries, “Allen v. Farrow,” helped keep the allegations alive and fueled distrust against the filmmaker.

That, plus the MeToo movement, pushed Allen to the industry’s sidelines after years of professional adoration.

Allen did his best to downplay his now-reviled status among his Hollywood peers.

“If you’re gonna be canceled by a culture, this is the culture to be canceled by,” Allen said, referring to the fading woke revolution that punished artists for past statements or deeds. “This is not a culture to be proud of.”

“Cancellation is not a way to deal with issues. It doesn’t serve any purpose.”