Actor Richard Gere, another of Hollywood’s brainwashed liberals, flew to Germany where he took an opportunity to rip his home country for the Trump administration’s current crackdown on illegal immigration. The actor, speaking to an audience of foreigners, asked attendees of an event he was featured at, “Did you ever imagine that someone as crazy as this would be President of the United States?”
“I think the term I was actually given today — apparently the U.S. government is calling aliens,” Gere went on to say at the launch of a joint migration initiative by the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and The Gere Foundation in Berlin, Germany. “Aliens, that’s the latest. It had been vermin, now it’s aliens,” the Officer and a Gentleman star told the crowd.
According to a report from Breitbart News, Gere is actually spreading false information about the United States while on foreign soil. The report revealed that the government has been using the term “alien” as a legal designation for non-citizens for most of its existence. The first time the word appeared is in the Naturalization Act of 1790, going on to become the official established term in 1798.
The report said that Gere later admitted to the audience that he is “deeply ashamed” of the “alien” language being employed by the Trump administration and other GOP lawmakers, seemingly implying this is the first time such terms have been used. “Somehow, in today’s debates, we often speak about migrants, about refugees, as if they were different from us,” the actor said.
“I’m deeply ashamed of this, I want you to know,” Gere continued. “They belong to another category of human beings, as if their hopes and fears and aspirations were somehow less legitimate than our own.” Gere, who left the U.S. and moved to Madrid, Spain in the latter part of 2024, then went on to compare the issue of illegal immigration to his own family’s migration story, which took place before the U.S. existed.
Gere explained that his family history involves “four of five people on the Mayflower,” which is the ship that carried Pilgrims from Britain to the area known today as Massachusetts in the 1600s, more than a hundred years before the U.S. was established. “So, we all left and our parents left, our grandparents, to make a journey in search of safety, of opportunity, dignity, or simply to look for a better future,” he said.
“Human history is in many ways the history of migration, of movement,” he continued. “Did you ever imagine that someone as crazy as this would become President of the United States and work to destroy it?” Gere asked the audience. The Pretty Woman star has been on the attack against President Donald Trump for years now. He recently referred to the president as a “maniac” while giving a speech in Norway.
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During an address at a human rights forum in Oslo, the 76-year-old actor discussed a recent trip to the Nazi concentration camp located at Dachau, Germany, and attempted to make a parallel between it and the detention facilities currently holding illegal aliens in the United States. “We have to see the cues — this dictatorship of the monsters — how quickly it happens,” Gere said.
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