--- description: British actor Patrick Stewart is joining the fray opposing President Donald Trump by applying to become an American citizen. title: Patrick Stewart Is Becoming American to Fight Trump image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f535af59e9a7ba3/6988bcd34dd215966befdfe7/patrick-stewart-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Patrick Stewart Wants to Become an American Citizen to Fight Donald Trump by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 3, 2017 12:29 PM CUT  Patrick Stewart attends the Build Series Presents Hugh Jackman And Patrick Stewart Discussing "Logan" at Build Studio on March 2, 2017 in New York City. Patrick Stewart attends the Build Series Presents Hugh Jackman And Patrick Stewart Discussing "Logan" at Build Studio on March 2, 2017 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 3, 2017 12:29 PM CUT British actor [Patrick Stewart](http://time.com/4354959/patrick-stewart-brexit/ "undefined") is joining the fray opposing President [Donald Trump](http://motto.time.com/4687495/oprah-winfrey-2020-presidential-run/ "undefined") by applying to become an American citizen. On Thursday’s episode of _The View_, the _X-Men_ star defended a tweet he wrote last month where he joked that Trump might be the reason why he “had the worst sleep of my life.” > [](https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/830073431634935808) Stewart, who is promoting his new film _Logan_, then told Joy Behar that “the only good thing” to result from the election is that he was going to apply as an American citizen. “I am now applying for citizenship. Because I want to be an American too,” Stewart told _The View_. “All of my friends in Washington said, ‘There is one thing you can do. Fight, fight, oppose, oppose.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4689875/patrick-stewart-is-applying-for-u-s-citizenship-to-fight-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4689875/patrick-stewart-is-applying-for-u-s-citizenship-to-fight-trump/"},"headline":"Patrick Stewart Wants to Become an American Citizen to Fight Donald Trump","datePublished":"2017-03-03T12:29:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:38:45.574Z","description":"British actor Patrick Stewart is joining the fray opposing President Donald Trump by applying to become an American citizen.","url":"https://time.com/4689875/patrick-stewart-is-applying-for-u-s-citizenship-to-fight-trump/","keywords":["celebrities","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f535af59e9a7ba3/6988bcd34dd215966befdfe7/patrick-stewart-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f535af59e9a7ba3/6988bcd34dd215966befdfe7/patrick-stewart-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Patrick Stewart attends the Build Series Presents Hugh Jackman And Patrick Stewart Discussing \"Logan\" at Build Studio on March 2, 2017 in New York City.","caption":"Patrick Stewart attends the Build Series Presents Hugh Jackman And Patrick Stewart Discussing \"Logan\" at Build Studio on March 2, 2017 in New York City.","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4689875/patrick-stewart-is-applying-for-u-s-citizenship-to-fight-trump/","name":"Patrick Stewart Wants to Become an American Citizen to Fight Donald Trump"}}]}] ```