Dick Van Dyke Is Glad He “Will not Be Round” For Trump Presidency

At 98, Dick Van Dyke has a minimum of one optimistic takeaway from realizing his time is restricted.

The 6x Emmy winner had a blunt response when requested how he feels about Donald Trump returning to workplace for one more four-year time period after profitable the presidential election towards Kamala Harris this month.

“Happily, I received’t be round to expertise the 4 years,” he advised The Each day Mail.

When requested if he thinks the longer term appears to be like shiny for the nation, Van Dyke mentioned, “I hope you’re proper.”

Van Dyke beforehand endorsed Harris final week in a YouTube video, emphasizing that “hatred shouldn’t 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.

“To those that inform us the inequality of the human animal is a obligatory evil, we should reply by merely saying that first, it’s evil, however not obligatory,” he remarked, earlier than noting: “1964. Rather a lot has occurred. Not a lot as Martin Luther [King] dreamed of, however it’s a begin.”

Van Dyke backed Bernie Sanders within the 2020 presidential major and spoke at certainly one of his marketing campaign occasions. Earlier this 12 months, he advised 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 publish movies in help 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.