Barbra Streisand says Trump is ‘dangerous to our health’

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Barbra Streisand has said that Donald Trump doesn’t have “the wisdom or the character” to be President while speaking at a Joe Biden fundraiser.

Appearing at a virtual event for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday (11 June), the Funny Girl star launched a scathing attack on Trump and his response to the coronavirus crisis.

“Think of how many lives could have been saved if he had paid attention to the warnings and acted earlier,” Streisand, 78, is reported to have said by Deadline.

“In other words, Donald Trump is dangerous to our health. We cannot afford four more years of malice, division and lies, and neither can our planet.”

The actor and singer continued: “We don’t need a bully as a president who picks fights and rules by retaliation. Let’s face it: Trump is unfit mentally and morally to hold this office.

“He calls himself the law and order president, but he doesn’t obey the law, and he can’t keep the order. This reckless man doesn’t have the wisdom or the character to lead the nation.”

With Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the United States in response to the death of George Floyd, Streisand compared the 2020 election to the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1968, saying: “Black lives mattered then, and they matter now.

“The nation has never reckoned with the racism that brought human beings here in chains. No one should die with a knee on their neck.”

In March, Streisand penned a scathing op-ed about Trump, calling the President a “one-man weapon of mass destruction” and condemning him for his “breathtaking ignorance”.