At 98, Dick Van Dyke has a minimum of one optimistic takeaway from figuring out his time is proscribed.
The 6x Emmy winner had a blunt response when requested how he feels about Donald Trump returning to workplace for an additional four-year time period after successful the presidential election in opposition to Kamala Harris this month.
“Happily, I gained’t be round to expertise the 4 years,” he informed The Each day Mail.
When requested if he thinks the longer term appears to be like shiny for the nation, Van Dyke stated, “I hope you’re proper.”
Van Dyke beforehand endorsed Harris final week in a YouTube video, emphasizing that “hatred will not be the norm” reciting a speech by Rod Serling that the Mary Poppins actor beforehand delivered at a 1964 civil rights occasion with Martin Luther King Jr.
Donald Trump was re-elected U.S. President this month.
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“To those that inform us the inequality of the human animal is a needed evil, we should reply by merely saying that first, it’s evil, however not needed,” he remarked, earlier than noting: “1964. Lots has occurred. Not a lot as Martin Luther [King] dreamed of, nevertheless it’s a begin.”
Van Dyke backed Bernie Sanders within the 2020 presidential main and spoke at one in all his marketing campaign occasions. Earlier this 12 months, he informed The Hollywood Reporter that he was supporting Joe Biden’s reelection, earlier than the president dropped out of the race.
Van Dyke is amongst a handful of Hollywood figures to put up movies in assist of Harris, main as much as the election. Richard Gere endorsed Harris in a video posted by her Pennsylvania marketing campaign, and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed her in an announcement.
