Patrick Stewart is planning to renounce his British citizenship and become and American to join the fight against President Trump.
The 76-year-old “X-Men” actor announced his plans in response to a tweet he wrote during a recent visit to Washington, D.C. The hosts of “The View” asked him about a tweet in which Stewart joked that he had “the worst sleep of my life” because of Trump.
Had the worst sleep of my life last night. But I was sleeping less than 300 yds from where Donald Trump sleeps. Could there be a connection?
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) February 10, 2017
“It was a fairly innocent tweet, I did not directly insult your president,” Stewart said to laughter.
Host Joy Behar asked if he was willing to take Trump off America’s hands, to which Stewart joked, “We have our own problems,” referring to the U.K.’s “Brexit” from the EU. However, the visit to America’s capital sparked an idea in Stewart.
“We had gone to Washington to see good friends of ours,” he recounted on “The View.” “We wanted to ask them, ‘What do we do?'”
“Maybe it’s the only good result of this election, I am now applying for [U.S.] citizenship,” Stewart announced. “Because I want to be an American too. Because all of my friends in Washington said there’s only one thing you can do: fight, fight, oppose, oppose.”
