‘Journey to a more perfect union has missteps’

Tom Hanks says former President Trump winning a second term in the White House may signal America’s “misguided path toward a more perfect union.”

“I think there’s always reason to be concerned in the short term,” the “Saving Private Ryan” star told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. I asked if he was worried. and about the country’s “commitment to democracy and freedom” if Trump wins in November.

“But I think the long term picture of what happened is something that’s still in progress. Our Constitution says, ‘We the People of the United States, to form a more perfect Union,’ but there have been failures along the way to a more perfect Union,” said Hanks, 67.

The Oscar winner spoke with Amanpour in Normandy, France, as President Biden met with veterans to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

“But in the long run, I think we’ve inevitably progressed toward a more perfect union. So how does that happen? It doesn’t happen because of someone’s story of who was right and who was the victim. It happens by the slow blending of truth into the actual lives that we ultimately live,” Hanks said.

“It all comes down to the good deeds we do with our neighbors,” the performer continued.

“I have always believed that the United States, and other Western countries that have more or less similar democracies, are compelled to move in the right direction,” he said.

In 2022, Hanks narrated a video touting the accomplishments of the Biden administration’s first year, saying at the time that the country was “stronger than it was a year ago today.” He also hosted Biden’s primetime inaugural special in 2021.