Succession star Brian Cox has spoken about his worry that “women are being marginalised in America” ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Trump will be sworn in to his second term in the White House on Monday, eight years after he first took the oath of office.
Dundee-born Cox – who is a big supporter of Scottish independence – told ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) programme: “It’s so divided now, America. It is so divided, and it’s surprising, I think of poor Bobby (Robert) De Niro, who’s been beating that tambourine really strongly and very much anti-Trump.
“And I have great support for that. But it’s just, it’s crazy, really. But the thing that worries me more than anything else is how women are being treated, how the women are being marginalised in America.
“And we’ve seen it with the defeat of Hillary (Clinton). We’ve certainly seen it with the defeat of Kamala (Harris), and that has really made a problem, you know, where do women fit in in that society?
“And women are fighting for their own rights, the whole abortion issue. So I just feel very strongly that there’s a sort of strong anti-feminist thing going on.”
Despite mixed messaging on abortion rights over the years, Trump has repeatedly taken credit for appointing the three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v Wade and for returning the abortion question to the US.
Cox, 78, campaigned for Scottish Labour in the 2007 Holyrood election, but backed the SNP four years later. He was a backer of the Yes campaign in the 2014 independence referendum, although he could not vote because he lived in the USA.
He announced he had quit Labour in 2015. He called for a second independence referendum in 2020.
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