“Well, they don’t have a choice now,” McConaughey said. “He’s our president. It’s very dynamic and divisive of an inauguration in time that we’ve ever had. At the same time, it’s time for us to embrace.”
McConaughey went on, urging Americans to be “constructive” in a Trump administration in his signature style.
“Shake hands with this fact, and be constructive with him over the next four years,” McConaughey said. “So even those that most strongly disagree with his principals or things he’s said or done, which is another thing, we’ll see what he does compared to what he had said. No matter how much you even disagreed along the way, it’s time to think about how constructive can you be. Because he’s our president for the next four years, at least. President of the United States.”
As Vulture points out, it's unclear whether this interview was filmed before Trump's executive order on immigration, which in part temporarily banned refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. McConaughey's wife, Camila Alves, emigrated from Brazil to the United States.
The video containing the remarks was removed Thursday morning from YouTube.
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