Actress Angelina Jolie had choice words on Monday for Donald Trump and the idea he floated earlier in the election cycle to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.
“To me, America is built on people from around the world coming together for freedoms, especially freedom of religion,” she said, according to CNN. “So it’s hard to hear this is coming from someone who is pressing to be an American president.”
Jolie was in London talking at a BBC event not as an actress, but as the special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” star compared the current Syrian refugee crisis to World War II, and called on countries to get over their “fear of migration” and unite in this “once-in-a-generation moment when nations have to pull together.”
She said that the current system for taking in refugees is “breaking down” and the plan to help them once they cross borders is “severely underfunded.”
According to Jolie, these problems arose “not because the model is flawed or because refugees are behaving differently, but because the number of conflicts and scale of displacements have grown so large.”
Trump was also attacked recently because of his Muslim comments by newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, who offered to “educate” the presumptive GOP nominee and “show him that you can be Muslim and Western.”
