Richard Gere believes Trump is making things worse. He thinks President Trump is causing refugees and terrorists to mean the same thing.
“The number of hate crimes went up enormously as soon as Donald Trump started running for president, in the United States and in Europe,” Gere told an audience at the festival, according to Deadline.
Unfortunately, a lot of the crimes committed have been from people who are mad that Trump was elected President. You also have a LOT of people that George Soros has funded to cause problems. So if someone is doing the right thing, and that causes people to be upset about that, do you blame the person doing the right thing?
Gere goes on to say:
“Unfortunately, we have leaders that stimulate fear, and that fear causes us to do really terrible things. I think that’s part of what we’re talking about in the film. We have to be really careful how we talk to each other and characterize each other. The most horrible thing Trump has done is conflate the terms refugee and terrorist. It means the same thing in the U.S. now. A refugee used to be someone who you had empathy for, who you wanted to help and give refuge to. Now we’re afraid of them. We have to really understand what he and this conservative movement has done and not forget we’re all in this together. We can’t escape each other’s realities. We have to embrace each other and love each other.” Read More: Richard Gere Rips Trump Immigration Policy: We Must ‘Embrace and Love’ Each Other
Of course embracing and loving people is a good thing, but does it really make sense to embrace someone who is trying to kill you?