Tom Hanks Shares Optimistic View on a Trump Presidency

Forrest Gump, or Tom Hanks, was honored yesterday by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and, taking the opportunity to supply his own words of wisdom, told the audience that "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 American. 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."

Tempered and calm in tone, his view on the election contrasts to many other celebrities reactions.

Hanks reminds people, “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.”

In essence, everyone will be alright. Time will only tell, Tom!