"It's appalling, it's appalling. He wants to be re-elected, he doesn't even care how many people die." Robert DeNiro has doubled down on his long-standing feud with Donald Trump by claiming the US President “doesn’t care” how many people die from coronavirus.
The screen icon, who is one of Trump’s most consistent critics, attacked his handling of the crisis in a new interview with BBC Newsnight.
It came as the US death toll reached a staggering 82,653 – higher than any other country in the world. He described Trump’s administration as “Shakespearean” and said “you’ve got a lunatic saying things that people are trying to dance around”.