Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke has said he is glad he “won’t be around” to experience the full duration of Donald Trump’s second term as president.
In a video published by the Daily Mail, Van Dyke, 98, was stopped in a car park and asked: “Does the future look bright for America?” The actor replied: “I hope you’re right.”
Van Dyke was then asked: “Do you think Donald Trump is capable of making America great again?” Van Dyke said: “Fortunately I won’t be around to experience the four years.”
Before the election the actor was one of dozens of celebrities to endorse Kamala Harris and make their anti-Trump position clear. Van Dyke posted a clip on social media the day before the vote in which he read out a message written by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, which Van Dyke had originally read out at a civil rights event in 1964 in Los Angeles, alongside Martin Luther King.
The message read, in part: “Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, 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.”
Van Dyke had told the Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that he planned to support Joe Biden, before the president dropped out of the election race.
