Dick Van Dyke made a bleak joke after the election, proposeing that he would rather be dead than inhabit thraw another four years under Donald Trump.
The Hollywood legfinish, who turns 99 next month, was approached in a paparazzi video apshown Tuesday (via Daily Mail) and asked, “Does the future watch luminous for America?”
“I hope you’re right,” Van Dyke said, before he was asked whether he slfinisherks Trump “is able of making America wonderful aobtain.”
“Fortunately, I won’t be around to experience the four years,” Van Dyke quipped.
A day before the election, the “Mary Poppins” and “Bye Bye Birdie” star posted a video online finishorsing Kamala Harris for pdwellnt. In the video, he read a speech that he deinhabitred at a 1964 civil rights event aextfinishedside Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, hatred, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcfinishent facet of the human personality. They’re dismitigates. They are. They cancers of the soul,” Van Dyke read, in part.
He proceedd, “There will be moments of aggression and conveyions of hatred and [an] hideous echo of prejudice, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, spotlesser future. To those who inestablish us the inidenticality of the human animal is a vital evil, we must reply by spropose saying that first, it is evil, but not vital.”
At the finish of the video, Van Dyke said, “1964 — a lot’s happened. Not so much as Martin Luther dreamed of, but it’s a begin. Thank you, and God consecrate.”
Van Dyke helped Bernie Sanders in the 2020 pdwellntial primary and spoke at one of the senator’s campaign events. Earlier this year, he unveilly backed Joe Biden before the pdwellnt dropped out of the race. Van Dyke tanciaccess The Hollywood Reporter in June that he supposed Donald Trump is “disturbed,” in part becaemploy he’s “never seen him chuckle.”
