Award-winning actor Tom Hanks set a couple of liberal reporters straight after they tried to get him to say something negative about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Hanks appeared on “CBS News This Morning,” promoting his latest move, “A Hologram for the King.” The interview took a turn toward politics when Charlie Rose and Gayle King tried ever-so-subtly to push Hanks into saying something negative about a President Trump.
It didn’t work out so well.
In fact, Hanks turned the conversation into a pitch about American greatness and the country’s ability to endure just about anything.
“Look, America’s going to be fine,” the actor said. “We’re the greatest, most resilient nation in the history of, of civilized, in all of civilization. We’ve worked ourselves out of holes many, many times over and over again.”
Hanks, who is well known for his roles in “Forest Gump,” “Saving Private Ryan,” and many other award-winning films, also said he wasn’t predicting who would win the general election. He jokingly claimed he had no “powers of clairvoyants” like “geniuses in the news media.”
“What I’m saying is we are going to have the most hilarious September, October and first week of November in a very long time,” the “Philadelphia” star said. “And you people are going to be exhausted.”
It’s hard to argue with him about that. With the way this political season has been shaping up, there’s no telling what will happen in the coming months. And sometimes, laughter is the best way to deal with some of it.
Watch the exchange below at the 2:04 mark:
Hanks has supported liberal ideas in the past, but it was good to see him stand up to these reporters and not let them manipulate the conversation.
H/T BizPac Review
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