Hollywood star Robert De Niro slammed US President Donald Trump as a “philistine” Tuesday, May 13, as he accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Hollywood star Robert De Niro slammed US President Donald Trump as a “philistine” Tuesday, May 13, as he accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival.
The 81-year-old actor said that “in my country we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted” against “America’s philistine president.”
De Niro, a fierce and longtime critic of his fellow New Yorker Trump, said the president’s swingeing cuts in funding for the arts and education were deliberate.
