US Actor Robert De Niro says Trump is unfit for presidency

U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday that the idea of Donald Trump running for president was “nuts.”

“What he’s (Trump) been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous stuff, that he shouldn’t be even… it’s…it’s totally nuts,” De Niro told a Sarajevo audience as he presented a digital version of Martin Scorsese’s film “Taxi Driver”, in which he starred, marking its 40th anniversary.

“I don’t know… it’s crazy to have people like Donald Trump who are totally… shouldn’t even, shouldn’t even be where he is… so… God help us,” 73-year-old actor said to roaring applause in the Sarajevo National Theatre.

Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about his main opponent Hillary Clinton, guns, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others.

Trump has blamed U.S. news media of taking many his comments out of context.

On Friday night, De Niro opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which was founded as an act of defiance towards the end of the city’s 1992-1995 siege during the Bosnian war, and was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to film.