Dick Van Dyke rips Donald Trump after election win, says he 'won’t be around' to endure his leadership
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Dick Van Dyke thinks it's better not to be around than to experience Donald Trump’s second term as president after he was asked about his views on the 2024 election result.
The Republican leader won against Kamala Harris in the recent election, four years after losing the White House to President Joe Biden.
Dyke was out with his wife Arlene Silver, 52, on Tuesday, November 12, when he was asked by a paparazzo, “Does the future look bright for America?” the Daily Mail reported.
The 98-year-old actor said, “I hope you're right!”
Dick Van Dyke casts doubt on Trump’s leadership capability
However, when the ‘Mary Poppins’ star was directly questioned about Trump and his second inning in the Oval Office, he did not hesitate to give his honest view.
“Do you think Donald Trump is capable of making America great again?” the paparazzo asked.
To which, the nonagenarian replied, “Fortunately I won't be around to experience the four years.”
Dick Van Dyke supported Kamala Harris before the election
This came after Dick Van Dyke had endorsed Kamala Harris one day before the election on November 5.
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In an Instagram video, the ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ star reportedly said, “Fifty years ago — May 31st, 1964 — I was on the podium with Dr Martin Luther King, who was addressing some 60,000 people in the Colosseum in LA, and I was there to read a message written by Rod Serling,” the actor said while referring to the ‘Twilight Zone’ creator.
“I got it out the other day and I think it means as much today — if not more — than it did then, so if you don’t mind, I’d like to read it,” he stated.
Dyke then began reading the speech, “Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy [and] scapegoating…. none of those are the transcendent facets of the human personality.”
“They are diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have been breeding humanity for years. And because they have been and because they are, is it necessary that they shall be? I think not,” he asserted.
The six Emmy Awards winner, who will turn 99 next month, added, “There will be moments of violence and expressions of hatred and an ugly echo of intolerance, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, cleaner future.”
“To those who tell us that the inequality of the human animal is a necessary evil, we must respond by simply saying that first, it is evil but it is not necessary,” Dyke mentioned.
