Actor Robert De Niro continues to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrom and his latest meltdown hinged on a favorite talking point of the left.
The 81-year-old star and raging critic of former President Donald Trump spoke with CNN anchor Chris Wallace about the upcoming election and was given free rein to spout his criticisms.
“Do you really worry that if he were to win again, and I’m not saying this like it’s such a farfetched notion if he were to win again, that he would not give up power?” Wallace asked in a preview clip of this week’s edition of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.”
“You know he won’t! You know he won’t! He even said it! He’s never going to give it up. And anybody who deludes themselves in thinking that he is, shame on you!” De Niro replied.
“You are both New York guys. Did you run into him in the ’70s and ’80s? I mean, is there something personal here?” Wallace questioned.
“No. I never wanted anything to do with him. He’s a jerk, an idiot, who wants to meet a clown like that?” De Niro declared in his same tired attacks.
“You’ve got to help everybody. People are going to get overlooked. That happens, but at least you have somebody who’s sensitive to the condition of the country, the people. And I’m not saying this like this, because it’s Kamala Harris, but it is. We need someone like her to do it,” he continued. “She’ll make mistakes. Of course, everybody does, but we need somebody with the right intentions, this guy has does not have the right intentions, and everybody knows that. It’s insanity. Period.”
“You have compared the Trump family, to a gangster…family. Which is something coming from you,” Wallace told the actor who played a young Vito Corleone in “The Godfather Part II.”
“Well, yeah. Because he thinks he’s a gangster. He does everything like a gangster,” De Niro said.
“I don’t think that gangsters in that world would want — think much of him, because you in any… there’s honor among thieves. There’s honor in anything,” he added. “If you don’t keep your word and do the right thing with people, no matter what profession you’re in, you are going to get ostracized. And in that world, it’s a little harder.”
De Niro was among other Italian-American celebrity names who took part in a “Paisans for Kamala” livestream last week.
“I’m very optimistic about it all,” he said of the Democrat ticket and the upcoming election, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I’m very excited, but to me, it ain’t over till it’s over. So we can’t for one second think that we’re ahead of this thing. We just have to be on it all the time until the very end because they’re going to try everything when the election day comes,” he said. “When will these things be final? What will they question? What will they play games about? We know it’s coming, we see it coming. We have to just be ever vigilant, and it’s not over till it’s over.”
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