Tom Hanks will not screen his film The Post for President Donald Trump at the White House if he was ever invited. The superstar told The Hollywood Reporter “I don’t think I would” on asked whether he would screen the film for the
President.

The White House often screens films in its private theatre in the East Wing, although there are no indications that Trump had asked The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg, to be shown.

“…Because I think that at some point — look, I didn’t think things were going to be this way last November. I would not have been able to imagine that we would be living in a country where neo-Nazis are doing torchlight parades in Charlottesville and jokes about Pocahontas are being made in front of the Navajo code talkers. And individually we have to decide when we take to the ramparts. You don’t take to the ramparts necessarily right away, but you do have to start weighing things. You may think: ‘You know what? I think now is the time.’ This is the moment where, in some ways, our personal choices are going to have to reflect our opinions,” Hanks, who plays late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee to Meryl Streep’s late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, said.

Graham ran The Washington Post for over 20 years and made the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, which held inflammatory details about the US’s involvement in Vietnam. Bradlee was the one who pushed Graham to release the documents when The New York Times, which first started publishing the documents, was hit with an injunction.