Richard Gere calls Trump a rogue who has caused deaths

Actor Richard Gere renewed his attacks on President Trump this week, calling him a “rogue personality” during a round of interviews promoting the second season of Paramount+’s spy drama “The Agency,” in which Mr. Gere plays a CIA station chief.

“He’s a rogue personality who’s destroyed so much; he’s caused so many deaths,” Mr. Gere said, according to The Hill, which reported the comments Wednesday. “But it will be over. He’s an old man, he’s a damaged personality. You can see, he must have had a horrible childhood to be the man that he is now. But that will be over.”

The remarks came amid a broader press tour in which Mr. Gere, who plays London bureau chief Bosko in the series, drew comparisons between his character’s world of intelligence work and the current political moment. In an interview with Variety, Mr. Gere said the CIA and other agencies outlast the politicians who oversee them, noting that “this under-the-skin world of spooks, of agents, is international. That maintains.”

Mr. Gere has repeatedly criticized Mr. Trump since his return to office. In October, he told the Spanish outlet Europa Press that Mr. Trump “is not only crazy, he’s a dark, dark presence,” a remark reported by Fox News. In February, accepting a lifetime achievement award at Spain’s Goya Awards, he said Americans have “a bully and a thug who is the president of the United States,” according to an account carried by AOL, sourced to Variety’s original coverage of the ceremony.

In June, speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway, Mr. Gere went further still, warning that “a maniac like this would be president of the United States,” a remark detailed by The Daily Beast. He also invoked a recent visit to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany to argue that authoritarianism can take hold quickly if citizens are not vigilant.

Mr. Gere, who moved to Spain in late 2024 with his wife, Alejandra Silva, has made criticizing the president a recurring feature of his public appearances, from award shows to overseas activism events to entertainment press junkets.