George Takei appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell and recalled a conversation he had with Donald Trump about two years ago about marriage equality.
He remembers asking the presidential hopeful to lunch after a Celebrity Apprentice press conference and Trump agreed to it. But it didn't take long for Takei to realize Trump’s warped idea of what marriage stands for.
Trump told him he had attended a “beautiful” wedding between Broadway bigwig Jordan Roth and Richie Jackson, calling them “wonderful friends” of his.
When Takei then challenged him as to why he doesn’t support same-sex marriage, he replied, “Well, I'm for traditional marriage.” After a “long discussion,” he said “we finally agreed to disagree — he was for traditional marriage, despite the fact that he'd been married three times. That is not traditional.”
"I approve of his three-time marriage because you want to find the person that you love, but the important thing here is to understand that our democracy is a dynamic democracy, and our Constitution is a living document, it's not carved in stone," Takei went on to say.
"I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is."
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