United Kingdom, April 29 -- Pedro Almodovar has launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump.

The Spanish film director was honoured with the Chaplin award in New York on Monday (28.04.25) but revealed that he was unsure whether to travel to the US for the event because of his disgust at the White House chief, whom he branded as a "catastrophe".

Almodovar, 75, said: "I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn't respect human rights.

"Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Imm...