During the second day of the Berlinale film festival, Richard Gere gave "an impassioned speech on the immediate impact" of President Donald Trump. The actor said he thinks Trump has "conflated the meanings of "refugee" and Terrorist"". Gere said, ""Instead of refugees being someone we want to help, now we're afraid of them, and the biggest crime is conflating these two ideas. We have to understand what he and the Conservative movement has done."