Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke is dismissing concerns about President Biden’s age, saying even though he’s more than a decade older than the commander in chief, he’s still “got all [his] marbles.”
“I’m old enough to be his father,” the “Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Mary Poppins” star said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, released Thursday, when asked if criticism of the 81-year-old president’s age was “legitimate.”
“I’ve got all my marbles,” the 98-year-old Van Dyke said. “So I’m not worried about it.”
A Gallup poll released Thursday found that 59 percent of respondents said they were very concerned with Biden’s age, compared to 18 percent for former President Trump, who’s 78.
Van Dyke, who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 and 2020 White House bids, said he’s backing Biden ahead of November.
“I met Joe Biden. And I said, ‘You know, I used to be as tall as you are.’ And he said, ‘I used to have hair like you.’ I liked him right away,” Van Dyke said with a laugh.
Van Dyke recalled once meeting Trump at a party in Malibu, Calif., before the New York real estate developer entered politics.
“He was in a Hawaiian shirt, open, big belly all nice and tan, a couple of gold chains hanging around his neck and a blonde on his arm — I’ll be charitable and say she was 20.”
“And he looked down at me like, ‘Who are you?’” the performer told podcast host Scott Feinberg.
“He’s just disturbed,” Van Dyke said of Trump.
Asked what he makes of today’s world, Van Dyke said, “I’m very, very worried. No kidding, in every respect.”
“What’s happening with our weather? No one knows — one hurricane, tornado after another. There seems to be something wrong with people. People, instead of going to the ballot box, are rioting for no reason, and it doesn’t make any difference,” the Tony and Emmy Award winner said.
“Russia is poised along the Ukraine border with nuclear weapons. China has already announced it’s going to take Taiwan back,” he continued.
“I think we are on the verge of maybe the end,” Van Dyke said. “I’m that worried about it.”
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Dick Van Dyke knows more than I do because he is 91 and I am only 85.
I thought high school science for 30 years and what did he do?
You should have thought to think taught. LOL,
Van Dyke may have some marbles and his money saves him from what the People of the US are suffering from, but his marbles do nothing for his understanding and compassion. STUPIDITY in Hollywood is really at its maximum height and those “””stars””” want us to believe what they say about politics.
It is time for the stars to SHUT UP!
Right on , and DeNiro’s tantrum about Mt Trump should have been on the GONG SHOW. Hollywood is another world along with Disneyland,, all make pretend and be happy for a little time…
He lived until 90 plus. And what does high school science have to do with anything you are not a psychologist or a doctor.
My High school Science teacher was a bigoted idiot other than he knew science.
The problem is NOT Biden’s age. Senility is the problem! Plenty of people aged 81 are NOT senile, but Joe Biden IS SENILE! I’m not concerned about the number 81…I’m concerned that our president is senile and incompetent to serve! Thank you, Mr. 98 for showing us your marbles – so glad yours are doing well! However, our president’s set of marbles are certainly not as round and clear as yours! You see, the amount of marbles is not the key here….it’s the condition they are in. We all lose that luster as we age, but some wear out a whole lot sooner than others.
Exactly, Nancy, it’s not ‘age’, it’s that stoner Jokementia Bribery was always a horrible, no morals person, politician, and father! i.e. Beau and Hunter…
Who, with an I.Q. # higher than room temperature, cares what this over-the-hill Hollywood actor thinks, says or does? He’s trying to be relevant and he isn’t.
We slightly care… respect he lived so long… but don’t agree with his politics… he’s prolly lacking in history education…
Preaching morals by lying, l had been watching Trump since he was a very young man, the beginnings of the seventies, and if there is anything you can say about him is that he was always very well dressed, never saw him wearing any jewelry like this despicable person said, and by the way he was very slender, ah and he seems not to have seen all the videos of senile Biden sniffing women and little girls hair, and touching them inappropriately, or hasn’t read Biden’s daughter diary, where she says that she took inappropriate showers with her father. I don’t believe him, he’s missing few marbles too. Shut up Hollywood!!!!!!!! Bye, bye Mary Poppins.