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Actor Robert De Niro kicked off the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival Wednesday with a fiery speech, in which he applauded reporters as “saviors” and called President Donald Trump a “madman.”
“Look at all the Fake News writers here today,” the two-time Oscar-winner joked in front of a crowd of reporters at the Thalassa Restaurant.
The country has had a bad year, and you — the press – have taken a lot of hits. America is being run by a madman who wouldn’t recognize the truth if it came inside a bucket of his beloved Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken,” De Niro continued. “When he doesn’t like what he hears, he dismisses it by saying it’s un-American and damning it as ‘fake news.’ But we know the truth. All thinking people do.”
“Your job is difficult enough without being attacked by our Lowlife-in-Chief. The press has done an admirable job this past year,” he said. “We’re looking at journalists as our saviors, in the same way we used to look at our political leaders.”
De Niro has long-derided Donald Trump, describing him, nearly two years ago, as “totally nuts.” The Hollywood veteran ramped up his anti-Trump talk a few months later, announcing in a celebrity voter registration PSA that he’d like to punch Trump in the face.
After Trump’s election, De Niro said he was “depressed” and said the real estate mogul winning the White House made him “feel like I did after 9/11.
DeNiro has given the world some truly great and memorable performances...unfortunately this latest rant (and the series of rants since the election) isn't one of them.
I have to admit that I haven't seen any of his work since Meet The Parents, which he was great in of course.
In any case, I was just looking at his IMDB and I think its interesting that he is quoted to have once said: "The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying -- even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear."
He has said some pretty crazy things about President Trump, and if he ever needed to hear what he doesn't want to, its now.
But unfortunately he's now apparently reversed course on his earlier wisdom and has since also said:
"We're at a point with all of us this where it's beyond trying to see another person's point of view. There are ways you can talk about that, but we're at a point where the things that are happening in our country are so bad and it comes from Trump."
So he's just given up on the idea of intelligent discourse, of even having a national conversation. He's just become this sad and angry old man.
It's kind of heartbreaking. It's not classy. I like to think of these amazing thespians as national treasures - regardless of their politics, they are the "wise elders" of popular culture...like Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston. James Garner. Jimmy Stewart. They all had something in common - an inherent grace...a true gentleman's demeanor.
It's disappointing when they go off the rails and lose their dignity with all this vitriol, like DeNiro has.
Robert De Niro unload on Donald Trump during speech to high school
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“So what about the truth? What does the truth even mean today? I mean, if you’re Donald Trump it doesn’t mean anything. If you’re cowardly Republican enablers in Congress you don’t let the truth stand in the way of pathetically clinging to power,” he said. “Our country is led by a president who believes he can make up his own truth. And we have a word for that — bull****.”
“For example, you might say, as have many professionals, that Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of discharging duties of the President of the United States. That he’s afflicted with a narcissistic personality disorder.”
“That he’s a congenital liar. A mean-spirited, soulless, amoral, abusive con-artist son of a *****. **** Donald Trump,” he continued. “And I say this, cause I am not political, but I am now. You guys are the future.”
The 72-year-old Casino star then went on to compare Trump’s rise to that of Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power in the 1930’s led to a World War and mass genocide that killed over 60 million people.
“We’re in a dangerous situation… you know with Hitler, with other despots, people didn’t take them seriously, they laughed at them,” he remarked. “And then what happened, they turned around and it was too late. We can’t let that happen in this country and you guys are the ones to do it.”
Although most of his remarks were met with a scattering of applause, some audiences members could be heard expressing their disapproval. His reference to Hitler, meanwhile, was met with an awkward silence.
“Inappropriate,” one woman could be heard saying. “What does this have to do with the kids?”
Is De Niro doing a good job motivating future voyers? Do you want him to speak at your kids school?
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Robert De Niro unload on Donald Trump during speech to high school
