Plenty of celebrities have talked about opposing the Trump Administration’s agenda, but few are willing to go as far as Sir Patrick Stewart, who says he’s applied to become an American just so he can oppose Trump.
That’s right, guys, Captain Picard is now in charge of this resistance.
Speaking to The View on Thursday, as part of a press tour to promote his new film, Logan, Stewart said he was so dismayed by the Republican’s election that couldn’t sleep, and felt the need to do something. So the UK native looked into changing his immigration status.
“I’m not a citizen,” Stewart told the show’s panel of women. “However, there is, maybe it’s the only good thing, as the result of this election: I am now applying for citizenship. Because I want to be an American too.”
Two DC insiders apparently suggested that if Stewart wanted to be more effective in opposing and challenging the American government he would need to be an American citizen, which gives him the right to vote and to petition his president.
“All of my friends in Washington said, ‘There is one thing you can do. Fight, fight, oppose, oppose,'” he continued.
When asked whether Stewart would trade Trump for his own government, rather than trade his own citizenship for an American passport, he said he’s not happy with the way things are going at home, either. “We have our own problems,” he told the panel, referring specifically to the Brexit vote.
