Tom Hanks tells liberal crowd he hopes to vote for Trump in 2020; here’s how they responded

This is so cool!  Tom Hanks recently told his lefty friend to chill out and start working to unify this nation.  He was being honored by the Museum of Modern Art for all of his great work in film.  However, he decided to turn his speech into a plea for unity:

“We are going to be all right. America has been in worse places than we are at right now. In my own lifetime our streets were in chaos, our generations were fighting each other tooth and nail, and every dinner table ended up being as close to a fist fight as human families will allow.

We have been in a place where we have looked at our leaders and wondered what the hell they were thinking of. We’ve had moments with the administrations and politicians and senators and governors in which we have we’ve asked ourselves ‘Are they lying to us or do they really believe in this?’ That’s all right.”

He went on to praise the Constitution’s preamble:

“That document is going to protect us over and over again whether or not our neighbors preserve, protect, and defend it themselves.

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 Americans. 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?”

This is the part that jumped out at me:

“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. I hope the president-elect does such a great job that I vote for his re-election in four years.”

Guess what?  The crowd responded with a standing ovation!

h/t IJR