Tom Hanks mentioned that if former President Trump wins the elections, it might indicate that America’s “journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it.”
“I think there’s always reason to be worried about the short term,” the “Saving Private Ryan” star told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday when asked if he worries about the country’s “commitment to democracy and freedom” if Trump wins in November.
“But if we look at the longer term, I think there’s been ongoing progress — our Constitution says, ‘We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,’ — that journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it,” said Hanks.
The Academy Award winner spoke with Amanpour in Normandy, France, as President Biden met with military veterans to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
“Over the long term, however, we inevitably make progress towards that more perfect union. And how does it happen? It doesn’t come from someone’s narrative of who was right or who was a victim. It comes from the slow melding of truth with the practical life we end up living,” Hanks said.
“It comes down to the good deed practiced with your neighbor,” the actor continued.
“I will always have faith that the United States of America, and the Western societies that have adopted more or less the same sort of democracy, can’t help but turn towards what is right,” he said.
In 2022, Hanks narrated a video highlighting the Biden administration’s accomplishments in its first year, saying at the time that the country was “stronger than we were a year ago today.” He also hosted Biden’s prime-time inaugural TV special in 2021.
