Richard Gere calls Trump a burger without the beef

Richard Gere says US President Donald Trump lacks substance, likening him to a burger without the filling.

The actor, who’s in Berlin promoting his new film The Dinner, about a politician facing tough personal and moral choices, says Trump “has pushed it to the limit.”

In an interview on Friday, Gere quoted the 1980s television commercial in which a fast-food chain customer asks “where’s the beef?” when handed a giant hamburger bun.

Speaking of Trump, Gere said: “with him, there’s no beef there, there’s no protein, there’s no centre, there’s no resonance.”

The star of films such as Pretty Woman and An Officer and a Gentleman later told an audience at the Berlin Film Festival that Trump had made people fear refugees by equating them to attackers.