According to US actor Richard Gere, Italian Interior Minister and right-wing leader Matteo Salvini is a "small Trump" who exploits people's fears to win votes.
- Your Home Secretary has the same mentality as President Trump. In fact, Salvini is a little Trump. It has the same obvious ignorance and radicalism, exploiting fear and hatred in people, "Gear told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Gere, 69, clashed with Salvini two weeks ago over the humanitarian aid organization Open Arms, when Italy banned docking of hundreds of migrants. The actor visited that ship and brought food to the migrants, and Salvini called on him to "take people to Hollywood and take them to his villas".
"If your interior minister spends some time with these people, hearing their stories and family traumas, he will change his attitude," Gear said, adding that he would like to meet with Salvini because he is convinced he is not. as it is presented to the public.
- He has family, children, parents. But politics uses it as a means of boosting support. Life can be simple if you are sincere and speak from the heart - the actor emphasized.
