Michael Douglas in Taormina, um eine Karriere -Ehre zu erhalten, entschuldigt sich für die US -Rolle bei laufenden globalen Konflikten: „Dies ist die schlimmste Zeit, an die ich mich jemals erinnern kann.“

>Said Douglas, “Since this is a film festival and since it’s very difficult to spend five minutes not mentioning ‘the big T,’ I prefer not to get into this.” However, he continued, “I was born at the end of World War II, but in my lifetime, this is the worst time that I can ever remember. There’s much too much conflict in the world. It’s all the more reason why we should be making movies, being creative … I am not happy to see the defense budgets increasing across the board. My country in particular, insisting and demanding other countries increase their military budgets. I have a hard time understanding why, with all the AI and how intelligent we are as human beings, how we can possibly be having as many wars and conflicts as we are. It’s ridiculous.”

>As the local audience responded with applause, Douglas added: “I realize that my country bears a lot of the responsibility to the chaos that exists in the world. I apologize and I’m embarrassed — to my friends, be it my neighbors in Canada or Mexico, or all the countries in the EU and NATO — I’m embarrassed and I apologize. But beyond that, I really do not want to give the benefit of having more discussion about our president.”

Worth 300 million dollars. Tax the rich. People starve as he flies out to Italy for an award. He doesn’t care. He just can’t say that. He has all the power to change things with that wealth. Doesn’t.