A silver screen tough guy’s reality-distorting rhetoric against the “sociopathic” former president included a TDS-fueled vow regarding portraying the “total monster.”
With leading roles in films like “The Godfather,” “The Untouchables,” “Goodfellas” and “Taxi Driver,” Robert De Niro has a lengthy resume playing characters on the wrong side of the law. However, during his appearance on the latest installment of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the two-time Academy Award-winner drew a hard line at every taking on the role of former President Donald Trump.
“The guy is a total monster,” the New York native said after the host noted a recent poll showed the GOP leader beating incumbent President Joe Biden 48 to 43. “I guess they get behind that kind of logic, they want to f*ck with people, screw them because they’re unhappy about something.”
“He’s such a mean, nasty, hateful person. I’d never play him as an actor because he’s — I can’t see any good in him. Nothing. Nothing at all,” the actor continued. “Nothing redeemable in him…Whoever the people are who want to vote for him — and they look like intelligent people around there, for some reason, it can’t be. It cannot be.”
Robert De Niro on Trump: “I’d never play him as an actor, because I can’t see any good in him. Nothing.”
Watch the two-time Oscar winner get real about his feelings toward @realDonaldTrump on Real Time: https://t.co/DQepfpXgFh pic.twitter.com/XlyU53hqGo
— Real Time with Bill Maher (@RealTimers) March 9, 2024
No stranger to airing his Trump Derangement Syndrome, De Niro advanced his tear devoid of any semblance of how the president’s administration had operated from Jan. 2017 through Jan. 2021 and claimed, “If he wins the election, you won’t be on this show anymore. He’ll come looking for me. There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine. That’s what happens in that kind of dictatorship, which is what he says. Let’s believe him, take him at his word.”
“He’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” contended the actor after he and Maher agreed that, despite having left office, “…this guy is never going to concede power, and he still hasn’t.”
Meanwhile, when confronted with an actual display of authoritarian power, De Niro played dumb over New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) deployment of the National Guard and State Police into the New York City subway system to resume a bag check policy that had been suspended more than a decade earlier.
“Well if he did, it’s for another reason,” the actor suggested if Trump had instituted the policy. “Her doing it — I haven’t heard about it. They just told me…before. But…I don’t know. I don’t have an answer for that. I’m not happy about it.”
Democrats are open to a police state run by Democrats… pic.twitter.com/e8kI0sFFOO
— @amuse (@amuse) March 9, 2024
De Niro’s partisan bias also stood prominent as he boiled down the general election and said, “The bottom line is it’s Biden versus Trump. Do we want to live in a world that we want to live in and enjoy living in or live in a nightmare? Vote for Trump and you’ll get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and you’ll — we’ll be back to normalcy.”
The actor’s role in “Angel Heart” was one of several called out to emphasize the disconnect of Hollywood elitists and leftist ideologues pushing propaganda over policy to demonize the former president and Republicans writ large.
“Robert De Niro on Trump: ‘I’d never play him as an actor, because I can’t see any good in him. Nothing.'”
Very strong words from De Niro who has even played the Devil before. pic.twitter.com/hABTMwM20X— Mack O’Quinn (@MOQuinn62) March 9, 2024
Jesus, the amount of hate people express toward Trump amazes me. When I hear Trump speak, he doesn’t say one hateful thing. So much propaganda from Hollywood.
— TTUvapor (@redraidertech) March 9, 2024
This is SUPER MEGA TDS. Donald Trump wouldn’t make a top-20 list of most awful people De Niro has played in his career.
— Sam Rosenthal, Award Winning Online Safety EXPERT! (@SirSardonic) March 9, 2024
Have to wonder what good he saw in Max Cady and Jimmy Conway?
— Spooky Joe (@jmotivator) March 9, 2024
Chock full of TDS.
Sad.
— Prospector (@NewsProspector) March 9, 2024
“If he (Trump) did it, it’s for another reason.” pic.twitter.com/TFxFfLmM4T
— The Mad Stoic (@stoic_mad) March 9, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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