In a shocking move by actor Anthony Mackie, he in a way endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before taking it back after fans voiced their outrage.

In an interview with BET to promote his upcoming film "Our Brand Is Crisis," the actor dished on why he would be backing the candidate and what role he hoped to play in the campaign.

"I would 100 percent want to run Trump's campaign. 100 percent," Mackie told BET.

"I mean, first that'll be the best party ever when he won, and second, Trump's an easy sell... When you look at Trump, he's an easy sell because you can sell him as the guy who worked his way up from nothing. And I think if you're a 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' candidate, people would identify with that."

Although it was clear at that point that he had joined the Trump bandwagon, his comments about Trump being a "guy who worked his way up from nothing" seem to indicate that Mackie did not know a lot about the Trump, considering he inherited most of his wealth, although he did expand it.

"I'm on the bandwagon," Mackie said. "I'm drinking the Kool-Aid!"

But apparently, the interview was a bad attempt at a joke, which the actor did not clarify in the interview itself.

After a lot of outrage on social media about his comments and endorsement, the actor took to his own Twitter account and made a contradictory assertion.

"Sorry Donald, that wasn't an endorsement. Just a bad attempt at a joke, I guess?" Mackie wrote on the post.

So does that mean he got an education on the candidate after he made the comments? Or did he make the comments to knowingly play a bad joke on his fans? If so, it is unclear why he did not state that at least at the end of the interview. Fans and celebrities mocked him mercilessly for his assertion and "faux" endorsement before he "clarified" his comments on Twitter.