Former Rare Staff
According to Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, President Donald Trump’s public war of words with a Gold Star mother is one of the bigger “cock-ups” he’s seen.
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Hanks commented on the president while in Washington, D.C., to accept an award.
“I’m only knowing what I read in the newspapers and what have you, and it just seems like it’s one of the biggest cock-ups on the planet Earth, if you ask me,” Hanks said.
“This is a tragedy of the utmost consequence, and it goes much longer beyond who’s going to come out on top of the news story. I think it’s very sad.”
Though he has never seemed much of a fan of Trump, Hanks’ latest comments are his strongest public indictments of the president to date.
When asked about other topics in the news, such as the destruction of Confederate statues, Hanks said that citizens needed to have a dialogue about things that make them uncomfortable.
“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 The Hollywood Reporter.
“I hope the president-elect does such a great job that I vote for his reelection in four years.”
