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Tom Hanks Opens Up About Donald Trump And The ‘Hilarious’ Presidential Campaign [Video]

By Robert Jonathan
Published on: 03:26 PST, Apr 23, 2016

Tom Hanks apparently has no worries about the idea of Donald Trump being elected president of the U.S., unlike many of his Hollywood contemporaries, although he is unwilling to offer any predictions about the outcome on Election Day 2016.

Unlike Hanks, who seems very chill about the whole idea, celebrities who claim they would flee a Trump-governed America (if he’s the GOP nominee and goes on to win in the general election) include Jon Stewart, Al Sharpton, Neve Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Cher, Raven-Symone, and Samuel L. Jackson. That being the case, apparently LAX and/or Canadian border crossings could be busy after the ballots are counted in November, depending on which candidate prevails.

Last month, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton even declared that she doesn’t want to live in “Donald Trump’s America.”

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In the clip embedded below, despite the attempts on Thursday by the CBS This Morning hosts (whose set he visited on a promotional tour for the new movie, A Hologram for the King) to get him to bash the New York real estate mogul and White House hopeful, Hanks kept the TV conversation light in response to question about whether he was ready for a Trump presidency.

“I have no powers of clairvoyance like you geniuses in the news media. I’m not saying he’s going to be president of the United States…Look, America’s going to be fine. We’re the greatest, most resilient nation in the history of, of civilized–in all of civilization. We’ll be fine. We’ve worked ourselves out of holes many, many times over and over again.”

Reacting to the actor’s statement, one of the hosts immediately asked Tom Hanks if he thought Trump would put the country in a hole. Hanks replied with the following quip about the media.

“I’m going to say that we’re going to have the most hilarious September, October, and first week of November in a very long, long time. And you people are going to be exhausted.”

Along with many in the entertainment community, Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have contributed cash to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. “Hanks, who donated $2,700 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign last year, mused that he would not say that Trump, who he also referred to as the ‘president of the junior chamber of commerce,’ is going to be president of the United States,” Politico reported about the CBS interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7c2Rf_upk

With 79 acting credits on IMDB, Tom Hanks, 59, perhaps America’s favorite leading man, won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia (1993), as well as a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People’s Choice Award for Best Actor for his role as the title character in Forrest Gump (2004).

Hanks also joked on the CBS show that he wouldn’t want to be Trump’s teleprompter operator, in recognition that the freewheeling Manhattan-based businessman hardly ever speaks from a script in contrast to virtually all other politicians.

With reference a book called The Glory and the Dream that discusses the 1948 and 1952 presidential elections, Hanks denied that the brash billionaire and first-time candidate “somehow brought American politics down to a whole new level,” Truth Revolt noted. “It’s just the same thing over and over and over,” Hanks insisted.

After his big win in New York, Donald Trump currently leads the GOP field with 845 convention delegates to Ted Cruz’s 559, as the campaign moves into several perceived Trump-friendly states. A total of 1,237 delegates are required for the formal nomination for president on the GOP ticket, which will occur at the RNC convention in Cleveland this July.

[Photo by Matt Sayles/AP Photo]

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