Supercalifragilistic – our future looks horrible – and Dick Van Dijk doesn’t help!
But maybe he’ll make you laugh.
The Daily Mail recently saw the “Mary Poppins” star, 98, in a parking garage and asked him if he thinks he has been elected Donald Trump is actually “capable of making America great again?”
In response, “The Dick Van Dyke Show” alum dryly replied: “Luckily I won’t be there for four years.”
The “Bye Bye Birdie” star’s blunt response shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
The day before the elections, Van Dyke endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris by referring to a speech he gave with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Van Dyke said in one video published on his YouTube account that the speech was written by “The Twilight Zone” creator and host Rod Serling.
“I think it means as much, if not more, today than it did then, so if you don’t mind, I’d like to read it,” Van Dyke said.
“Hate is not the norm,” he read. “Prejudices are not the norm. Suspicion, aversion, jealousy, scapegoating – none of these are the transcendent facets of the human personality. They are diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. It is the contagious and contagious viruses that have been bleeding humanity for years. And because they have been there and because they are there, is it necessary that they will still be there? I don’t think so.”