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Carl Reiner wants to live until 2020 for one specific reason: to vote out PresidentDonald Trump.
The 96-year-old television legend, who created The Dick Van Dyke Show, filmed a video to urge people to vote in the upcoming midterm elections and to share his own personal motivation for making it to age 98.
“On Nov. 6, we can vote for elected officials who will hold this president accountable,” he says in the video. “And after we’ve done that, my personal goal will be to stick around until 2020 and vote to make sure we have a decent, moral, law-abiding citizen in Washington who will make us all proud again to live in America.”
In the video, Reiner reviews the historic moments he has witnessed throughout his more than nine decades. “I’ve seen a lot of things in my lifetime. I lived through the Great Depression. Iserved in World War IIin our fight to defeat fascism. I’ve seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one,” he says.
“But what I’ve never seen is the American people being lied to every single day about everything,” Reiner continues. “Lies about climate change. Lies about protecting Medicare and Social Security. Lies aboutRussia attacking our elections. Lies about protecting people with preexisting conditions.”
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“My father is 96 and a half years old. In his long life he has never seen anything like what’s happening to our country. I love him. And I want the country he fought his whole life for,” Reiner’s son, directorRob Reiner,tweetedon Tuesday, alongside the video.
Bothfatherandsonare vocal about their disapproval of the Trump administration on Twitter. The elder Reiner has blasted Trump for hisappointment of Brett Kavanaughto the Supreme Court, for hisapproach to foreign policy, hisresponse to Sen. John McCain’s deathand more.
“At 96 and 6 months I have an incentive to hang around [until] I’m 98 so I can vote for whoever runs against our fake President Trump,” Reiner tweeted on Oct. 17.
“Your reaction to my desire to live [at] least [until] I can vote for someone who will put the Trumpser in the dumpster, has caused me to smile the widest smile my lips are capable of,” he wrote later that day. “the one that broke out when I first looked into [the] faces of my 3 infant children.”
source: people.com
