Brian Cox dubs Donald Trump a 'monster' before arguing with ex-PM

Legendary actor Brian Cox has branded Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a 'monster' in an excoriating interview. 

Cox, who famously played Logan Roy in the hit HBO show Succession, told Channel 4's US election coverage when asked how he felt about the upcoming results of the race that he was a 'crazy... insane [and] wants to be a dictator.'

He also got into a verbal spat with former British prime minister Boris Johnson over Trump's rhetoric, and whether he would act on the promises he has made.  

'It's the most crucial election... in my lifetime, and we have to make sure that that [Donald Trump] doesn't get in because he is a monster. He really is', Cox said. 

'He's crazy, he's insane, he wants to be a dictator. It's all been so clear, I don't know why the American people aren't listening. Some of the American people are, but a lot of the American people aren't. 

'The kind of nonsense he's been talking... I think he's lost it. He's deeply mentally unstable, and I think he has been for quite some time. This is not a man who should be president of the United States.

'He's unreliable, he's a convicted felon, I'm horrified. I'm a lapsed Catholic, and I read today that he's got huge support among Catholic voters. I find that extraordinary, Catholic voters voting for such a man who is... a big sinner.'

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'I find it all depressing and curiously ridiculous.'

When asked about how much of Trump's fiery rhetoric would become reality, he chuckled as he said: 'He'll do what suits Donald Trump. He's not interested in... making American great again. 

'The man is completely self-serving, he is only interested in one thing, and that's Donald Trump. 

'He doesn't give a damn about America. He really doesn't.'

Cox then got into a scrap with former British prime minister Boris Johnson, who claimed that Trump's views on Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky would be changed by him entering the Oval Office. 

Johnson said he disagreed with Cox regarding Mr Trump's response to the Ukraine Russia war if he was elected president.

'I think he will come to it and he will see that if he surrenders, if he allows (Vladimir) Putin to win - for his pride, for his ego, it's a disaster - it's a disaster for America, it's a disaster for the world,' Mr Johnson said.

'You can say that I'm wrong and I'm starry-eyed, and it's not going to work out like that, and he'll find a way of surrendering to Putin that somehow protects his reputation, his legacy.

'I don't see how you do that - it's a pretty unpolishable turd to be frank.'

The Succession star said: 'I don't buy it. I don't buy any of it, and... it's a very hard thing for Boris to talk about. 

'We witnessed, during the whole of his last term, how much he was in Putin's pocket.'

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Johnson later said that as a British Conservative politician he did not agree with Mr Trump's position on female reproductive health, gun control and tariffs.

'I'm not here to stick up for any particular presidential candidate, the 60-year-old said.

He continued: 'I think when you look at what Donald Trump actually did in office on the foreign policy front, which is what obviously I care about primarily as the former UK prime minister - from the Abraham accords to Ukraine to Iran - you can make a very strong case that he brought peace and relative stability and I think that's a very, very important consideration.'

Cox concluded saying he would never play Mr Trump in a film or TV series because 'it's a terribly bad part, nobody would want to play Donald Trump because it's such a terrible role... how do you find any redeeming feature in the human being'.

Their comments came after Stormy Daniels, the woman at the centre of Mr Trump's hush money trial following an affair, asked Mr Johnson: 'Would you leave your daughter alone with Donald Trump?' after Mr Johnson described their friendship.

'I don't see why not...yes,' Mr Johnson said, before describing his experience of Mr Trump as 'courteous' and 'polite'.

During Channel 4's coverage, Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who accused Donald Trump of paying her to stop her revealing their dalliance, has admitted she has been living in an RV since July over fears for her safety. 

Daniels, the 45-year-old adult film star, told Channel 4's special US election programme of her anxieties about how Trump's supporters behaved since she became publicly linked with the former president. 

She also publicly clashed with former British prime minister Boris Johnson, needling him over his relationship with the Republican presidential candidate.  

'It was scary in the beginning, then it got quiet for a while. During this election, it kind of picked up again. 

'The biggest difference between this time and the first time around is that people aren't hiding. Part of that has to do with January 6 at the Capitol. 

'[Trump supporters] aren't hiding anymore. They're using their real screen names, they're using their real phone numbers. 

'The threats are more graphic, more targeted, and as we all know when I testified back in May, Trump's attorneys 'accidentally' put a document on the screen of the courtroom that had nothing to do with the case that we were trying that day with my unredacted home address. 

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'So I haven't been home since July, I have been living in an RV and travelling.'

Daniels was referring to the leak of her home address earlier this year. 

She said at the time that 'it's become unsafe for her family and her pets,' including her horses that have been shot twice. 

When asked whether she feared a Trump win or loss, she said: 'To be completely honest with you, I don't know.

'He's made it very clear he plans to go after after anyone who was against him and those who helped him.'

Daniels also claimed that Trump supporters had been calling in bomb threats to live comedy shows she was hosting.

'Trump supporters were calling in droves and threatening club owners [with] burning down the clubs.'

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She later squabbled with former British prime minister Boris Johnson over Trump's character, pointedly asking him: 'If you were prime minister and you and Donald Trump got into a disagreement, as people do with Donald Trump, would you have any fear for the ladies in his life?'

Johnson said: 'Nothing like that came up. When you're talking to the US president, the relationship you have as UK prime minister is one of great formality and importance. 

'Of course you develop a friendship, but actually, and I can say this in all sincerity, I never in my time with him was treated with anything other than courtesy and friendliness.' 

Speaking to Daniels, he said: 'Now you had a very different experience, but I can only talk about mine.'