Trump pays tribute to ‘great’ Robert Redford

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid tribute on Tuesday to screen great Robert Redford — who once played a journalist investigating a scandal that brought down a president — after his death aged 89.

“Robert Redford had a series of years where there was nobody better,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House after a journalist told him that Redford had died. “There was a period of time when he was the hottest. I thought he was great.”