Dick Van Dyke happy he won’t be around for Trump’s second term

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Dick Van Dyke says that the good thing about getting older is he won’t have to endure Donald Trump’s second presidency.

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The legend of the stage and screen was a vocal supporter of Trump’s Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in the leadup to last month’s U.S. election.

In a video captioned “VOTE!! @KamalaHarris” that was shared to YouTube in early November, Van Dyke, 98, read a speech he delivered at a 1964 civil rights event alongside Martin Luther King.

“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’re diseases. They are. They cancers of the soul,” Van Dyke said, in part.

But Van Dyke’s words made little impact on his fellow Americans. Following the hotly contested election, Trump marched to a resounding victory as he won all the battleground states that were up for grabs and captured the popular vote along the way.

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Now, with Trump set to resume power next month, Van Dyke is implying that he is looking forward to death more than living through his second term.

When a paparazzo asked Van Dyke whether the president-elect “is capable of making America great again” in a video shared by the Daily Mail, he replied: “Fortunately, I won’t be around to experience the four years.”

When he was probed further about whether America’s future was brighter with Trump at the helm, Van Dyke said: “I hope you’re right.”

In June, Van Dyke, who turns 99 later this month, expanded on his dislike of Trump telling The Hollywood Reporter that he thought the president was “disturbed” because he had “never seen him laugh.”

The Mary Poppins star also recounted his first meeting with Trump “before he was in politics.”

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“He was in a Hawaiian shirt, open, big belly, all nice and tan. Couple of gold chains hanging around his neck, and a blonde on his arm. I’ll be charitable and say she was 20,” he continued. “And he looked down on me like, ‘Who are you?’”

Van Dyke isn’t the only famous name who’s not thrilled by Trump’s re-election. Last month, Sharon Stone called her fellow Americans “ignorant” and “arrogant” after Trump’s victory.

The 66-year-old actress didn’t mention Trump by name, but she touched on politics during a scathing panel discussion at Italy’s Torino Film Festival that was shared on YouTube.

“We have to stop and think about who we choose for government and if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself,” she said. “You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before.”

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Stone, who was also a vocal supporter of Harris, said America “is in the midst of adolescence.”

“Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence,” the Basic Instinct star said.

She also accused her fellow citizens of being ignorant of what was going on in the world.

“Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete,” Stone said. 

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