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Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’
Accepting honorary Palme d’Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US’s ‘philistine president’
The actor Robert De Niro has – after a brief period of abstention – returned to his robust public critique of Donald Trump, using his Palme d’Or acceptance speech at the Cannes film festival to newly attack the US president. Along with Trump’s tariffs and the new ban on nude or excessively voluminous red carpet dresses, it proved an unavoidable talking point at the jury press conference in the afternoon, with this year’s president, Juliette Binoche, saying she felt her sometime co-star was “not a monster”. With the backing of union collective Sous les écrans la dèche, the workers – who include drivers and projectionists – said they sought to restart negotiations over unemployment insurance regulations which would better protect their livelihoods.
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