President Donald Trump is reflecting on the late Robert Redford’s Hollywood profession after listening to the information of his loss of life.
“Robert Redford was nice; he had a collection of years the place there was no one higher,” Trump instructed journalists Tuesday whereas leaving the White Home for his go to to the U.Okay.
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After a reporter instructed the president that Redford had died in his sleep Tuesday, Trump replied, “That’s a great way to go, I suppose.”
Regardless of praising the two-time Oscar winner’s physique of labor, Trump prevented naming his favourite Redford movie.
“Properly, you might have quite a lot of them … I’d say he made seven or eight nice films, they had been actually nice. There was a time period when he was the most well liked,” he responded. “I believed he was nice.”
Trump didn’t handle Redford’s earlier criticism of him.
Robert Redford in 1987. Kaku KURITA by way of Getty Photos
Redford, a staunch supporter of the Democratic Social gathering who was identified for being vocal about his views on American politics, publicly denounced Trump on a number of events.
The actor slammed Trump as somebody who “degrades the whole lot he touches” in a 2019 op-ed for The Washington Put up.
“It’s painfully clear we’ve a president who degrades the whole lot he touches, an individual who doesn’t perceive (or care?) that his responsibility is to defend our democracy,” the director wrote.
In a separate 2019 NBC Information op-ed, Redford declared that America is going through a “dictator-like assault” by Trump.
Redford later argued that the nation has “misplaced its place as a world chief” throughout Trump’s presidency whereas endorsing Joe Biden for president in a 2020 column for CNN.
Redford, identified for his starring roles in movies akin to “The Candidate” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child,” died in his Utah dwelling on Tuesday. He was 89.
“Robert Redford handed away on September 16, 2025, at his dwelling at Sundance within the mountains of Utah ― the place he beloved, surrounded by these he beloved,” Cindi Berger, chief govt of the general public relations agency Rogers & Cowan PMK, instructed HuffPost. “He can be missed drastically. The household requests privateness.”
