Posted on 03/04/2016 4:55:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The actor brings his campaign for social change to London and talks getting ready for a political battle
It's two days since Super Tuesday, that milestone in the US presidential primary calendar and the point at which candidates truly emerge from the party fray. And everyone -- of course -- is talking about Donald Trump.
"Here's a guy who's obviously Mussolini," says the actor and Hollywood A-lister Richard Gere, who's in London to raise awareness of homelessness with a new film called Time Out of Mind. He's been on the road for the past week -- to Dublin and Glasgow, visiting homeless shelters, meeting people on the streets -- and talks with a pained weariness, as though Trump and his supporters were personally responsible for his jet lag.
"How is it possible that people would be supporting this guy? You can try to find reasons. It's about how disillusioned they are, how afraid, how confused. [Trump] is a demagogue, a clown -- but people like clarity. Here's this guy who says, 'I'm going to fix this problem for you. It doesn't matter how, I'll just take care of it'. He's finding villains everywhere and then telling people he'll get rid of them." Gere extends the dictator analogy, alluding to Trump's pledge to close borders to Muslims and build a wall between the US and Mexico....
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Richard Gere is an actor whose opinion is not worthy of contempt.
He can KMA.
A liberal against Trump.
Color me surprised.
So I guess he has deemed himself intelligent, how grand of him, douche
What gets me about all this Trump bashing is here is a guy who never held public office, so there is no record for them to bash. So instead they nit pick about little stuff, like his personality or the way he looks or street talks, but they forget they most important thing: This is a guy who is absolutely fanatical about winning. He goes absolutely bananas if he loses or anyone calls him a loser, and here he is volunteering to run the USA for NO PAY, and people are COMPLAINING about that? Are you f**king kidding me? This guy is a GODSEND, can you imagine how obsessive he is going to be about creating jobs, restoring the economy, getting the country out of debt, getting people out of poverty? This guy would rather kill himself than allow people to point at him and say “loser”. Try to visualize that: President Trump in his 3rd year in office, unemployment is through the roof, national debt is even higher, poverty is even worse, the middle east is even worse ...NEVER NEVER would that ever fcking happen under this guy, no freakin way and all he gets is crap for it and for WHAT? So Hillary can play President? Hillary who has screwed up every single job she has ever held in her life? Who is currently under criminal investigation? SHE is a better choice than Trump or this wacko commie Sanders who wants to bankrupt the country? WAKE THE F UP PEOPLE, this is YOUR future!
Anyone missing a gerbil?
At least the trains will run on time.
He is just another Hollywood queer.
Will someone please take the gerbils away from Richard Gere?
I thought making the trains run on time was Michael Dukakis’ job?
You should write children’s books.
That’s because we’re the poorly educated, Richard. I love the poorly educated. Wish I was like you Richard. >/s
Is mention of Mussolini covered under a corollary of Godwin’s Law?
Another endorsement. He’ll have plenty of company from knuckleheads moving out of the country (I hope).
The disbelief that one can be intelligent and sane and have an opposing view.
That takes deep conviction. Like a Fascist. The Progressives/Liberals love to project.
I have voted for Trump in Texas last week and will in November. What attracts me to Trump is that he is NOT a cowardly chickenshit phoney so-called “conservative”
He will drop kick the establishment phoney intellectuals and Wall Street banksters!
Yes, I am Pro-American — national populist.
Here: “Donald Trump is America’s Mussolini – but intelligent people aren’t seeing this”
If he’s seeing it, doesn’t that mean he is not intelligent?
Who has the pic of Obama as Il Duce? It’s MUCH more apropos.
It seems that the fascist and racist commie libs aren’t happy unless they are calling somebody else a fascist or racist. KMA and take a hike Gere! Trump can’t be “Mussolini” if he’s already “Adolf Hitler”. People of very little intelligence just can’t seem to be able to see that. Dick needs to read the freakin’ DNC’s Daily Memo for Celebrity Dumbies to see what they’re supposed to call Trump this week.
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