--- title: George Takei Blasts Donald Trump at Intrepid Museum description: A man who spent part of his childhood in a Japanese Internment camp has a few words for the candidate who wants to build a wall canonical: https://time.com/4389864/george-takei-blasts-donald-trump/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-30T22:22:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:59:14.329Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Watch George Takei Blast Donald Trump og:description: George Takei has a few words for the candidate who wants to build a wall og:url: https://time.com/4389864/george-takei-blasts-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52f27a5f4f7dedb9/69889a4b0a4a2249bf9ca514/george_takei.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: George Takei og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch George Takei Blast Donald Trump twitter:description: George Takei has a few words for the candidate who wants to build a wall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52f27a5f4f7dedb9/69889a4b0a4a2249bf9ca514/george_takei.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch George Takei Blast Donald Trump  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Jun 30, 2016 10:22 PM UTC  Actor George Takei attends the Star Trek: The Star Fleet Academy Experience at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on June 30, 2016 in New York. Actor George Takei attends the Star Trek: The Star Fleet Academy Experience at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on June 30, 2016 in New York.Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Jun 30, 2016 10:22 PM UTC If you didn’t spend your morning standing on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise and then talking to George Takei, the actor, author, activist and playwright who created the role of Lt. Sulu in the original Star Trek series, well, that’s just because you weren’t at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York this morning. TIME was lucky enough to be there for a preview of the museum’s interactive Star Trek exhibit, which opens on July 9, and [streamed our conversations with Takei and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino live on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/time/videos/10153802642206491/). The talk was mostly space and science, but Takei had other things on his mind too. As part of the conspicuously multi-cultural cast of the original Star Trek, Takei has always felt deeply about the importance of a color-blind and race-blind society. And as a person who spent part of his childhood in an American internment camp — just one of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up in the hysteria that followed Pearl Harbor — he knows a thing or two about what happens when xenophobia and racism overtake reason. 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