Donald Trump, a message after the death of Robert Redford: “He had a period when there was no better than him”
President Donald Trump said he considered the late actor and director Robert Redford, after finding out about his death. Redford died on Tuesday, September 16, at 89.
Donald Trump/Photo: AFP
“Robert Redford had a period of years in which no one was better than him ”, Trump told journalists, while leaving the White House for his visit to the United Kingdom, according to Newsweek.
Trump did not approach Redford's previous criticisms at his address, which he described as “dictatorial” in an article written for the NBC in 2019.
“Our tolerance and respect for the truth, our state of sacred law, the essential freedom of the press and our precious freedoms of expression – all were threatened by a single man,” Redford wrote at the time, during Trump's first term as president.
The death of the Hollywood star was announced in a statement by Cindi Berger, the executive director of the advertising company Rogers & Cowan PMK.
“Robert Redford ceased life on September 16, 2025, at his residence in Sundance, in the Utah Mountains – the place he loved, surrounded by loved ones,” Berger said in a CNN statement. “The family requests respect for intimacy.”
Robert Redford/Photo: Profimedia
Known for his main roles in “Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid” and “All the president's people”, Redford also directed awarded films, such as “ordinary people” and “a river flows through it”.
His passion for film art was determined to set up the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization that supports the film and independent theater and is known for the annual Sundance Film Festival.
