Hollywood famous person Richard Gere referred to as President Trump a “bully” and a “thug” in his acceptance speech on the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain’s Goya Awards on Saturday evening.
Whilst accepting his honorary lifetime fulfillment award, Gere warned of the “slippery slope” towards authoritarianism within the U.S. and in other places and recommended the general public to be vigilant.
“I’m coming from a place now that we are in a very dark place in America, where we have a bully and a thug who is the president of the United States,” Gere stated in his speech, preventing when the gang started to applaud.
“But it’s not just in the U.S.,” he endured. “It’s everywhere. Everywhere.”
Gere stated he learn a letter in The New York Instances from somebody in Hungary who described “a slippery slope of how this happens everywhere.”
“Authoritarianism takes us all over,” Gere endured. “We need to be vigilant, we need to be alert, we need to be lively. We need to be courageous. We need to be brave.”
“And everyone who’s watching this in the Spanish-speaking world and elsewhere, we have to be willing to stand up, tell the truth, be honest, and that there’s a place in all of our lives for basic kindness, for basic love and understanding and an embrace of each other,” he endured.
