Ian McKellen, the actor who played Gandalf in the ever-popular “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” series, has decided to make his voice heard about the possible election of Donald Trump to the highest office in the land in an interview with the Huffington Post.
He referenced the fact that he voted for the new Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who was elected by a rather large margin recently, as a pretty much tell-all about how he feels about racism and Trump. He said:
“This time last week, I voted for the new mayor of London, who’s a Muslim. And that’s all I need to say about Donald Trump. The most important man in London, the London mayor [Sadiq Khan], is a Muslim, and he got voted in with a huge majority. I think that’s the future … enjoy the fact that we live in a multicultural world and rejoice in it. That’s my feeling.”
The new London mayor even commented on this himself, bringing up the fact that if Trump were to become president and somehow enact his insane anti-Muslim policies, he would very likely be unable to enter the US even on official business. That’s something that would likely strain the relationship between the US and one of its most valuable allies, the UK.
It is indeed a multi-cultural world that we live in Sir McKellen. If only everyone could get on board and focus on the real threat, radical Islam, instead of trying to radicalize all Muslims in our minds. People like Mr. Khan show just how much they can do for our world if we don’t just dismiss all of them as terrorists.
Let’s all just hope that American liberals can keep Donald Trump from being the one ferret-haired idiot to rule them all.
To see the interview in which Ian McKellen discusses coming out about his identity as a gay man, see the video below:
Featured image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr, available under a Creative Commons 2.0 license.
