Kelsey Grammer toured the White House and met with President Donald Trump on Thursday amid speculation that the Frasier star is considering a run for political office.
When asked about the meeting during an impromptu stop in the White House briefing room, Grammer responded that the “big guy” was “very positive, uplifting, and impressive.” Should the Republican actor opt to launch a campaign, Trump’s endorsement could be critical.
Grammer said that he was in Washington, D.C., for a screening of his new film, Young Washington, at the National Portrait Gallery. Grammer plays Lord Thomas Fairfax, the namesake of Virginia’s Fairfax County, in the biopic about George Washington’s youth.
When a bystander mused about whether Grammer was also working on a “Frasier runs for office spin-off,” he responded that the hypothetical project would be “colorblind.” The Cheers star is also one of deep-blue Hollywood’s most outspoken conservatives.
Grammer appeared on Fox on Tuesday, where he pushed back against allegations that the president botched a multimillion-dollar refurbishment of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The actor said that a “virus” had infected a “very small number of people,” who “just want to tear things down” and have been “consumed by hatred.”
“I pray for them,” added Grammer, who hosts an American history series on Fox. “I pray for everyone to find a decent sentiment in their hearts about this country, about the people who run it these days.”
Grammer was noncommittal about his political aspirations in an interview published on Wednesday with Us Weekly. “I would consider it,” Grammer said. “It would possibly tick that box for me, in terms of the service I feel I should have given to my fellow man — to my fellow countrymen — that I missed in the military.”
Grammer reportedly owns homes in Somerset, England, and Margaretville, New York. “I bought this land in upstate New York about 28 years ago,” Grammer told Fox Business in 2023. “I had some history with upstate New York in the Catskills, because when I was a little boy, I used to go with my grandfather to visit his best friend for Thanksgiving.”
Grammer has lived in Los Angeles since the 1980s.
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It’s not clear what office Grammer would seek, should he run. His 500-acre Catskills estate, from where he operates the Faith American Brewing Company, sits in New York’s 19th Congressional District. Republicans are eyeing that seat, currently held by Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY), as a potential pickup in the 2026 midterm elections. State Sen. Peter Oberacker won the GOP primary for the seat on Tuesday
The Washington Examiner reached out to Grammer’s publicists for comment.
