Robert DeNiro is a Hollywood icon and a silver-screen legend who has delivered some of the most unforgettable moments in film history. His impact on the industry is undeniable, and despite being 80 years old, he is up for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Unfortunately, he is also an unhinged leftist who has been Hollywood elite for so long that he has no idea what issues are important to everyday Americans.
Naturally, that doesn’t keep someone in his position from espousing hard opinions and trying to tell people what is best for them despite likely having no idea what the inside of a grocery store or a gas pump looks like in 2024. DeNiro was at it once again on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday night, unleashing an unhinged rant against Donald Trump and anyone who supports him and claiming that Biden will return “normalcy” to the country with a second term.
DeNiro, who has played notorious killers and mobsters, claimed he would never play Trump as an actor because “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. Nothing redeemable in him.” Never mind that DeNiro is almost six inches shorter and older than the former president. The actor made some clearly partisan observations about Biden.
The “Meet the Fockers” actor continued: “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 be back to normalcy.” Perhaps discounting the fact that being super rich and famous makes daily living easier, even under Biden, most Americans will never get to enjoy DeNiro’s version of normalcy.
As Bill Maher pressed the actor on why people are flocking to Trump, the actor went on a berserk tirade. “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 can not be. If he wins the election, you won’t be on this show anymore. He’ll come looking for me. They’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.”
Maher asked DeNiro if he knew President Trump from New York City’s social circles, and the actor replied he “didn’t want to know him,” saying he is “an idiot” and “a clown. He’s a classic bully…. He’s got to be stopped.” His rant continued, “He’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. He is a dangerous person, and we have to really help people… the people who somehow think he’s gonna be the answer to their prayers, whatever those are.”
Maher, who has a reputation for taking both sides to task, asked, “Well, I think people feel there’s a lack of common sense on the left and the right. Would you at least agree with that?” DeNiro agreed before making his most asinine statement of the interview. He said: “I would agree with that. The bottom line is… Biden’s our guy. He represents what this country is supposed to be about.”
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