Tom Hanks Says He Would Not Attend a Film Screening at Trump White House

Actor Tom Hanks is not a fan of President Donald Trump or his administration, and he reiterated his sentiments toward the president in a recent interview.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about his starring role in the soon-to-be-released movie “The Post,” the 61-year-old said he would not want to screen the film at the Trump White House.

“If Donald Trump wanted you to screen this movie at the White House, would you go?” THR asked.

“I don’t think I would,” Hanks responded, before noting that in November 2016, he never would have been able to imagine what has occurred during Trump’s presidency.

“I would not have been able to imagine that we would be living in a country where neo-Nazis are doing torchlight parades in Charlottesville (Virginia) and jokes about Pocahontas are being made in front of the Navajo code talkers,” he said.

Hanks was referring to controversies the White House has become embroiled in regarding Trump’s response to a white nationalist rally and his favorite nickname for Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

Hanks went on to indicate that these controversies have made him realize that it’s time to take action.

“And individually we have to decide when we take to the ramparts,” the actor said. “You don’t take to the ramparts necessarily right away, but you do have to start weighing things.”

“You may think: ‘You know what? I think now is the time.’ This is the moment where, in some ways, our personal choices are going to have to reflect our opinions. We have to start voting, actually, before the election.”

Returning to the original question about a potential film screening at the White House, Hanks said, “I would probably vote not to go.”

That wasn’t the only shot Hanks took at Trump during the interview

The actor — whose latest movie tells the story of The Washington Post’s work reporting on the top-secret Pentagon Papers — compared the Nixon administration’s flouting of the First Amendment to the Trump administration’s current treatment of the news media.