The previous president criticized open border insurance policies on Saturday and claimed folks had been coming to America from “insane asylums” earlier than citing “The Silence of the Lambs.”
“Hannibal Lecter, how nice an actor was he?” stated Trump in a mix-up between the fictional character’s title and Anthony Hopkins, the actor who performed the cannibal within the 1991 movie.
“You already know why I like him? As a result of he stated on tv on one of many – ‘I like Donald Trump.’ So I like him. I like him. I like him. He stated that a very long time in the past and as soon as he stated that, he was in my camp, I used to be in his camp. I don’t care if he was the worst actor, I’d say he was nice to me.”
Hopkins, who was born in Wales and later turned a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, told The Guardian that he doesn’t look after Trump and defined that he doesn’t vote as a result of he doesn’t “belief anybody.”
“We’ve by no means received it proper, human beings. We’re all a multitude, and we’re very early in our evolution,” the actor stated in 2018.