Donald Trump seems to love
humiliating people, Martin Scorsese said at the 71st annual
Taormina Film Festival where the 82-year-old Taxi Driver, Raging
Bull, Goodfellas and The Departed director is the guest of
honour this year.
"I am disappointed by Donald Trump. I am not a political
philosopher, but I believe that an attitude like his, based on
anger and hatred, ends up being counterproductive even for
itself," said the Italian-American auteur in a meeting with the
press before receiving a lifetime achievement award this evening
at the Teatro Antico.
"I do not see compassion in this administration. "Indeed, it
seems that it takes pleasure in the opposite: hurting,
humiliating", he said.
Instead the famously Catholic director says of the new Pope Leo
XIV: "When I think of the new Pope, I don't think of the fact
that he is American. For me, every good Pope is the Pope of all.
"It's the same thing that was true for Pope Francis. I didn't
think of him as the Argentine Pope, but as a man capable of
embracing all humanity.
"This is the task of the Pontiff: to guard the soul of the
Church, but also to include the world."
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