Robert DeNiro : Trump Is Our "Low-life In Chief"
Robert De Niro continued to slam President Donald Trump. This time, it was during a press luncheon to celebrate the start of 2018’s Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday. The actor, who helped start the festival 16 years ago, praised journalists the crowd of journalists at the event and took shots at the commander-in-chief.
“America is being run by a mad man,” he said. “When he doesn’t like what he hears, he dismisses it by saying it’s un-American and damning and it’s ‘fake news,’ but we know the truth. All thinking people do know the truth.”
“Your job is difficult enough without being attacked by our lowlife-in-chief, that’s the new name I have for him,” De Niro continued. “It was jerkoff-in-chief, now it’s lowlife-in-chief.”
De Niro, 74, then turned his attention to the media-filled crowd. “The press has done an admiral job this past year. We’re looking at journalists as our saviors in the same way we used to look at our political leaders,” he said. “It’s come to the entertainment and cultural committees to show that we’re open to ideas different than ours, that we welcome cultures foreign to us, that we embrace diversity, that we’ll continue to support telling their stories, because ultimately they’re our stories.”
Wednesday was far from the first time De Niro lashed out at Trump. While presenting Meryl Streep with the Best Actress award in January for her role in The Post, De Niro called the president the “baby-in-chief” and “jerkoff-in-chief” at the National Board of Review gala.
“It was fascinating to watch The Post,” De Niro said. “That story took place nearly 50 years ago, but there are many parallels today, obviously. This fucking idiot is the president. It’s The Emperor’s New Clothes: The guy is a fucking fool.”
Before Trump was elected president, De Niro famously said in October 2016 wanted to punch the New York business tycoon in the face.
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Give that man an Academy Award.
I like DeNiro as an actor. But as a human being, he’s nothing but a low life classless scumbag
Is that just because he believes the same about the incompetent joke in the oval office? De Niro's not alone, a majority of America feel that way about Trump and disapprove of him and the job he's doing as President. De Niro's played mobsters in the movies, he apparently has no stomach for watching a numb nuts goomba like Trump try to be a wannabe Tony Soprano and just bully his way around government, looking to enrich himself and his family while not knowing the first thing about global or domestic politics. Now some Theocrat "minarchists" chortle with glee at the thought of our government being burned to the ground by an incompetent pretend mob boss, they believe they'll be able to establish their own Christian fascist sharia law in the vacuum created by the destruction. But they shouldn't get ahead of themselves, a majority of the nation see this fool for what he is and will vote he and his enablers out on their fat tacky suit panted asses in November and the deplorables will gnash their teeth and whine and moan about deep state conspiracy theories till they're red in the face.
Yeah, Donald Trump has so much class for you to compare him to.
Yep give him the fake crisis actor award. I really didn’t want that wimpy kid from Parkland to win it.
So kind of wondering how your family will deal with you not surviving the next one.
DeNiro is not changing any minds. All his anti-Trump passion has accomplished is to damage his own image as a civilized person. He has said a lot more angry, violent, and intolerant things in the last couple of years than I have ever heard come out of Trump. He sounds like a bully.
Trump proudly that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any of his gullible supporters. He was right.
Well, I think he was exaggerating to make a point. I agree with the point, but if he committed an actual serious crime that was clearly proven, I do think that would be a problem for everyone. Up until now, we have known him to be many things, but a murderer is not one of them. The big picture with Trump is that the usual suspects who came before him have been failing the country for years. People wanted to give him a chance, and they wanted it bad enough to - at least temporarily - set aside what we know about his character. 25 years ago, Trump could not have been elected. It's the failures of the intervening period that have made this possible.
I don't think it was an exaggeration at all - Trump supporters seem willing to overlook all of his numerous faults and excuse all of the crap he says and does. The bible-babblers especially seem very pleased to have a President who's a greedy, erratic, braggadocious, denigrating , racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic sociopath and pathological liar who faces very credible accusations of sexual assault and has screwed around on all three of his wives......including the latest wife while she was nursing his infant son. Two Corinthians anyone?
It says as much about the poor character of bible-babblers and other Trump supporters as it does about him. And it says a great deal about the modern GOP that Trump is their leader, and that the only people who love a sociopathic shitstorm like Trump are white evangelicals.
Well, then you're not facing reality (not uncommon for the Left these days). He hasn't done anything close to shooting someone.
Which specific religious people (names please) are celebrating the moral shortcomings of Donald Trump? I don't think you'll find any. I can think he's the better choice for president (over Hillary Clinton - the only choice I had) and still have a negative opinion of him in other areas. It's a somewhat more nuanced and sophisticated way of approaching the world.
But again, you aren't facing reality. The choice in November 2016 was not "Trump or Any other person on planet Earth." And it certainly wasn't "Trump or Jesus." It was "Trump or Clinton." Not a fun choice, but not a hard one either.
He is a great actor. But, it is like most things if a person has a certain amount of "famous" they feel people will listen to them. WRONG!
Like some people on NT......they cite and cite shit that other people have said and truly believe if they said it, then, it must be so. I would be banned if I told them truly what I think.
Why should I or anybody else care what and aging has been actor of dubious ability has to say about anything. I give his opinion just about as much weight as I give John R .'s here. None!
Robert De Niro is an actor of dubious ability??
Hey, at least he's not talking to an empty chair...
Hey an empty chair was the perfect replica for who Eastwood was talking to and about.
Damn shame that Eastwood has been suffering from Alzheimer's for many years now.
Much like the geriatric brain-dead Trump.
So for Trump he would talk to an overstuffed Lazyboy???
To disparage or honestly access the real value of Trump is against gawd. How dare anyone challenge anybody ( Trump ) who proudly and consistently proclaims he's, "Like a really smart guy," and knows, "A lot of big words."
The only thing that seperates a celebrity with a big mouth from anybody else is that they get a platform to shove their ill informed half baked opinions down everyone's throat. Actors and entertainers are usually qualified to do NOTHING else than their chosen field. Just ask Jim Carrey about his paintings.