Tom Hanks Actually Has Nice Things To Say About President-Elect Donald Trump

You know, it’s nice to have a big-time Hollywood celebrity break from the liberal groupthink for once. Nothing against the Scott Baios and Stacey Dashes of the world (’cause we’re more than happy to have them), but they’re not exactly Tom Hanks. A big name like Tom Hanks talking politics like this might actually catch people’s attention. At least, make them stop and think for moment.

According to this, Tom Hanks was being honored at the New York Museum of Modern Art. At the event, he spoke to the Hollywoord Reporter and he took the time to address the aftermath of the election. He included an utterly groundbreaking suggestion (well, it’s groundbreaking given the currently super-charged atmosphere) of maybe giving the president-elect a chance to govern before you start protesting him –

“This is the United States of America. We’ll go on. There’s great like-minded people out there who are Americans first and Republicans or Democrats second,” Hanks told THR. “I hope the president-elect does such a great job that I vote for his re-election in four years.”

You know what’s funny? I said much the same thing about Trump during the election. You all know that I was not a big fan of Trump. I sharply criticized him several times. But when the alternative is Hillary Clinton, you kind of feel like you’re painted into a corner. Still, I never felt truly comfortable about the idea of President Trump.

That being said, I consistently said that if Trump won, I would hope that he proved me wrong and turn out to be a good enough president that I would happily vote for him for re-election in four years. And now that the election is over and he’s going to be the president in January, I’m sticking to that pledge. After all, if he screws up, we all pay the price for his mistakes. I don’t want that. I don’t know a single sane American who does.

Tom Hanks also talked about the divisions amongst Americans, and even said that these divisions we’ve created for ourselves might not actually be helping matters much. But we’re going to be okay in the long run –

We are going to be all right because we constantly get to tell the world who we are. We constantly get to define ourselves as American. We do have the greatest country in the world. We move at a slow pace. We have the greatest country in the world because we are always moving towards a more perfect union. That journey never ceases, it never stops. Sometimes, to quote a Springsteen song, it’s “one step forward, two steps back,” but we still aggregately move forward. We, who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened, will continue to move forward. We have to choose to do so, but we will move forward because if we do not move forward, what is to be said of us?

It’s sad that anything this positive coming from Hollywood is newsworthy, but I will take it! That it’s Tom Hanks saying it is just icing on the cake.