JERUSALEM (AP) – Violinist Itzhak Perlman, a longtime advocate for the disabled, is still upset over Donald Trump’s derisive behavior toward a disabled reporter last fall and says he’ll support Hillary Clinton in November’s election.
The mild-mannered musician, who contracted polio as a child and uses an electric scooter to move around, said Tuesday that he tries to avoid politics but the current campaign is different.
Last November, Trump flailed his arms in what critics said was an attempt to mock a New York Times reporter who suffers from a congenital condition that restricts joint movement. Trump denied he was mocking the reporter’s condition.
Perlman called Trump’s gesture “horrible” and “outrageous.”
The American-Israeli musician is in Israel to collect the Genesis Prize, a $1 million award known unofficially as the “Jewish Nobel Prize.”