Irving, who won a best adapted screenplay Oscar in 2000 for the adaptation of his own novel The Cider House Rules, has contributed an essay to the Hollywood Reporter in which he considered the “protocol” over whether or not award winners should make explicitly political speeches.
Oscar-winning novelist John Irving has taken aim at Donald Trump over the latter’s threat to LGBT and abortion rights as well as religious-based bigotry.
What I’m saying is that anyone with something political to say should feel free to say it.”
Describing Trump as a figure of “outright bias”, and vice-president Pence as a “sexual dinosaur”, Irving writes: “In Trump’s administration, LGBT and abortion rights are in danger.”