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Oct 12, 2023 · Robert De Niro (left) on May 21, 2023, in Cannes, France. Donald Trump (right) on October 7, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. De Niro has taken aim at Trump in a blistering speech.
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- ‘He’s Totally Nuts’
- ‘Blatantly Stupid’
- ‘Horrified’
- ‘Enemy of The Arts’
- ‘Tragic, Dumbass Comedy’
- ‘Fuck Trump’
- Trump Interlude: Deniro Is ‘Brain-Damaged’
- ‘A Real Racist’
- Wannabe
- ‘He Should Not Be President’
A few months before the election in 2016, De Niro joined a chorus of celebrities pointing to the absurdity of Trump’s campaign. “What he’s been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous … he is totally nuts,” he told an audiencein Sarajevo marking the 40th anniversary of his film Taxi Driver. “I don’t know, it’s crazy that people like Donald Trump...
As part of a campaign urging people to vote in the 2016 election, De Niro made what would prove to be some of his most withering comments about Trump in September of that year. “He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things,...
After Trump’s victory, De Niro adopted a more sober tone. “He’s president now … half the country is horrified, many parts of the world are, and we’re gonna see how he does. That’s it. I give the benefit of the doubt that’s he going to try his best to do the right thing,” he said in an interview. His openness to the administration would not last lon...
In May of 2017, De Niro took aim at Trump’s immigration policies, telling a crowd at a benefit in New York that they would prevent future artists and immigrants such as Charlie Chaplin, being honored that night, from entering the country. “The administration’s mean-spiritedness towards our art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirit...
In a speech at the Brown University commencement, also in May of that year, De Niro contrasted the America of the past with the Trump era. “When you started school, the country was an inspiring, uplifting drama,” he said. “You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy. My advice is to lock the [university’s] Van Wickle gates and stay here.”
In June of 2018, De Niro earned a standing ovation at the Tony awards for cursing out the president. “I’m gonna say one thing. Fuck Trump,” he said. “It’s no longer down with Trump. It’s fuck Trump,” he said as the crowd rose to their feet.
The president respondednot long after on Twitter, suggesting De Niro was brain-damaged. “Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies,” Trump tweeted. “I watched him last night and truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk’.”
Speaking to the Guardian in January of this year, De Niro said he was wrong to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, and that it was clear that he was a “real racist” and a “white supremacist”. He also compared him to some of history’s worst fascists. “If he had his way, we’d wind up in a very bad state in this country. I mean, the way I understand ...
A few months later De Niro touched on the mafia comparisons again, calling Trumpa “wannabe gangster” and “total loser” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. He reiterated that Trump had less honor than a common criminal. “Even gangsters have morals and they have ethics. They have a code, and you know when you give somebody your word, it’s your wor...
In September of this year, De Niro was characteristically blunt in speaking about Trump, saying that he “should not be president, period”. “We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster,” he said. “We say over and over again: ‘This is terrible, we’re in a terrible situation, we’re in a terrible situation,’ and ...
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Dec 20, 2023 · Robert De Niro has had a hell of a year. In April, the screen icon welcomed a daughter, Gia, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen. Three months later, he lost his grandson, Leandro, to a drug overdose ...
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Mar 9, 2024 · Actor Robert De Niro is seen on February 24 in Los Angeles. Republican 2024 presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is seen at Mar-a-Lago on March 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Mar 11, 2024 · Robert De Niro talks about attending the Oscars, his win for The Godfather Part II, being called out by Donald Trump on social media through the years, he gives his unfiltered thoughts about our former President, and he shares a first look at the trailer for his new movie Ezra. Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live! WEEKNIGHTS 11:35/10:35c on ABC. Stream on ...
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Mar 9, 2024 · “Robert DeNiro has a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” he wrote. “Such a stupid sounding guy, a low IQ individual!” De Niro made a similar argument against the GOP presidential ...
Mar 8, 2024 · De Niro went on to call Trump “a mean, nasty, hateful person – I’d never play him as an actor.” De Niro avoided Trump in New York, calling him a “clown,” but adding, “He’s a ...
