Robert DeNiro, who is currently trying to raise money for Hurricane Irma relief in Barbuda -- where he owns a large resort slated to opened soon -- attacked the Trump Administration for not blaming the catastrophe on global warming.

The actor also likened Trump to "the great con artists of the world."

DeNiro was asked about Barbuda's prime minister, who recently stated, "We have no doubt that this is a result of global warming and sea level rise and climate change" and the Trump Administration commenting that it would be important to conduct a "trend analysis" before determining any connections.

"Well, I think we all know the feeling from the White House, that they’re not too in favor of the idea of global warming, so we have to deal with that," the actor said in an interview on CNN. "But people will deal with it because no matter what the White House wants to do, the world sees it."

"There are changes, and we’re not certainly helping it by ignoring it," he added. "We, at the least, are exacerbating the situation. And for the administration to turn their back on that is disgusting.”

DeNiro also weighed in on the current debate over the DREAM Act and Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (or DACA), saying Trump does not actually care about so-called DREAMers.

“I understand that people feel — even I am hesitant sometimes to endorse somebody because I don’t want to be just an elite Hollywood person doing that, but many of us feel that the right thing has to be done for people," DeNiro said. "And we really believe that. Someone like Trump doesn’t really believe that. He can give lip service to it, but he doesn’t really believe it.”



CNN's Poppy Harlow followed up, asking about Trump supporters who believe Trump is putting the American people first.

“You know what the best con artists in the world say? 'I’m putting you first.' And what happens?” he shot back.

DeNiro suggested it would be better to put any money allocated to border security toward hurricane relief instead.

"And wasting everybody's time about being a wall between Mexico and the states is, you know, come on, we need a lot of money for this," he said. "And we're not -- we're paying for that wall somehow later on they'll find a way to say we have to pay for it but the Mexicans aren't going to pay for it, just on principle. And so we really -- we need to really focus on other things, Harvey, Irma, I mean total devastation. Come on.”