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.
