No special screening for Trump at White House, if invited: Tom Hanks

Actor Tom Hanks says that he wouldn’t screen his film, The Post, for US President Donald Trump at the White House, if he was ever invited. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film follows Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, who ran The Washington Post newspaper for over 20 years, and made the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, which held inflammatory details about America’s involvement in Vietnam.

Graham risked losing her newspaper and even prison time by defying then president Richard Nixon and publishing the papers. Hanks plays the newspaper’s then editor, Ben Bradlee, who pushed Graham to release the documents when the New York Times, which first started publishing the documents, was hit with a court injunction.

Asked whether he’d screen the film for the current president, Hanks told The Hollywood Reporter, “I don’t think I would. Because... look, I didn’t think things were going to be this way last November (before Trump was elected). I wouldn’t have been able to imagine that we’d be living in a country where neoNazis are doing torchlight parades in Charlottesville and jokes about (native American icon) Pocahontas are being made in front of the Navajo code talkers.

“We have to decide when we take to the ramparts. 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 our personal choices are going to have to reflect our opinions.

We have to start voting, actually, before the election. So, I’d probably vote not to go.”

PHOTO: RICH FURY/ INVISION/AP Tom Hanks is among Hollywood stars opposed to the Trump regime