Michael Douglas: “I am ashamed of my country and I apologize” | Culture | EUROtoday

During the inauguration of its grasp class on the Taormina Film Festival (Italy), Michael Douglas stated Tuesday that he “ashamed” within the United States and apologized for the “world chaos” generated underneath the presidency of Donald Trump. “I understand that much of the responsibility of world chaos comes from my country. I am ashamed of my country and I apologize. I apologize to my neighbors in Canada and Mexico, and also with the countries of the European Union and NATO,” stated the 80 -year -old actor towards college students and movie professionals.

Douglas, awarded two Oscar prremios and 4 golden balloons, obtained the trajectory award on the outdated Roman theater within the metropolis in Taormina. Throughout his profession, he has mixed his creative aspect with a public dedication: since 1998 he acts because the Messenger of the United Nations Peace and collaborates with the nuclear Threat Initiative, selling worldwide campaigns for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

In his grasp class, the actor criticized the fixed improve in army budgets, particularly within the United States, and expressed his astonishment on the persistence of armed conflicts in the course of synthetic intelligence: “It is ridiculous that, with all the technology we have, let’s continue to witness so many wars.”

With 80 years – he was born on the finish of World War II – Douglas stated he had by no means witnessed a interval as convulsive as the present one. He urged to exchange army investments on initiatives for dialogue and worldwide cooperation, and appealed to diplomacy as the one option to stop the errors of the previous.