Hollywood legend Richard Gere criticized Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling the U.S. president a “maniac” who has “dismantled almost everything that was good” in regards to the United States.
“We’re living in the darkest moment that I’ve experienced on this planet,” the 76-year-old star advised an awards ceremony in Oslo for the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.
“Who ever thought America could turn like this? Who ever thought that a maniac like this would be president of the United States?” Gere advised the viewers of a whole bunch. “First day, this guy dismantled almost everything that was good about the U.S. government and the U.S. people.”
As he introduced prizes on Tuesday on the Oslo Freedom Forum for imprisoned Chinese artist Gao Zhen and Myanmar anti-junta dissident Sai, Gere admitted that he had completed too little to marketing campaign towards Trump’s return to the White House.
“How is this even possible? Because we went to sleep. We didn’t care. We didn’t vote. We didn’t really listen,” the veteran actor stated.
Gere advised the viewers that he had just lately visited the Nazi focus camp in Dachau.
“We have to see the cues, this dictatorship of the monsters, how quickly it happens. We have to be vigilant.”
A longtime supporter of Tibet and a convert to Buddhism, Gere has incessantly met the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan religious chief accused by China of stoking separatism within the Himalayan area.
Since 2024, he has lived in Spain along with his Spanish third spouse, Alejandra Silva.
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