--- title: Harrison Ford on Donald Trump's 'Air Force One' Comment description: "It's a movie, Donald" canonical: https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-09T21:36:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:34.546Z og:title: Harrison Ford Strikes Back at Donald Trump's 'Air Force One' Comment og:description: "It's a movie, Donald" og:url: https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5767f14ade99237b/698874ba3c16399cef45b20c/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Harrison Ford poses for a portrait in Sydney on Dec. 9, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harrison Ford Strikes Back at Donald Trump's 'Air Force One' Comment twitter:description: "It's a movie, Donald" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5767f14ade99237b/698874ba3c16399cef45b20c/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harrison Ford Strikes Back at Donald Trump's _Air Force One_ Comment by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 9, 2015 9:36 PM CUT  Harrison Ford poses for a portrait in Sydney on Dec. 9, 2015. Harrison Ford poses for a portrait in Sydney on Dec. 9, 2015.Mark Sullivan—WireImage/Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 9, 2015 9:36 PM CUT Harrison Ford is striking back at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who the _Star Wars_ actor accused of not being able to tell fact from fiction. Trump recently [told the New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/politics/voters-worried-about-terrorism-look-for-leaders-at-home-on-silver-screen.html? "undefined") last week that he enjoyed movies with heroic presidents — specifically 1997’s _Air Force One_, in which Ford plays a commander in chief who fights off a group of Russian terrorists who hijack the presidential plane. “My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “He stood up for America.” Ford addressed Trump’s comment Wednesday during an Australia press tour for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” “It’s… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/harrison-ford-strikes-back-donald-trump-n477171?cid=par-time%5F20151209 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/"},"headline":"Harrison Ford Strikes Back at Donald Trump's Air Force One Comment","datePublished":"2015-12-09T21:36:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:34.546Z","description":"\"It's a movie, Donald\"","url":"https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity","Donald Trump","harrison ford"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5767f14ade99237b/698874ba3c16399cef45b20c/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5767f14ade99237b/698874ba3c16399cef45b20c/harrison-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Harrison Ford poses for a portrait in Sydney on Dec. 9, 2015.","caption":"Harrison Ford poses for a portrait in Sydney on Dec. 9, 2015.","creditText":"Mark Sullivan—WireImage/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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4143645/donald-trump-harrison-ford/","name":"Harrison Ford Strikes Back at Donald Trump's Air Force One Comment"}}]}] ```