Actor Tim Allen said he got a kick out of ex-President Donald Trump making people mad and also explained in a new interview why hes a conservative.

On the latest episode of Marc Marons WTF podcast , the Last Man Standing star said his dislike of paying taxes and not knowing what the government was spending half of his income on pushed him politically to the right.

Allen attended Trumps inauguration in January 2017 and later provoked anger when he likened his experience as a conservative in Hollywood to living in 1930s Nazi Germany. Maron asked him how he minimised backlash for his conservative views.

I literally dont preach anything, said Allen, who described himself as a fiscal conservative.

What Ive done is just not joined into, as I call it, the we culture, he continued. Im not telling anybody else how to live. I dont like that, we should do this or, we should do that.

Once I realised that the last president pissed people off, I kind of liked that, Allen added. So it was fun to just not say anything. Didnt join in the lynching crowd.

Despite his apparent delight over Trumps divisiveness, Allen said hes been friendly with Bill and Hillary Clinton. He just didnt think the former secretary of state should have been president.

In the end, you go the other direction, he added. Theres nothing personal about it. If you dont like it then wait til the next election.

Listen to the full episode here. Allens comments about Trump begin at the 62-minute mark.

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