Speaking to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle in a lengthy interview, far-left actor Robert De Niro insisted that Trump, whom called everything from a “stupid bully” to a “monster” in the past, is similar to Hitler, demanding that Americans shouldn’t be voting for him for that reason, even if they’re not big fans of President Biden.
The name-calling aspect of the interview, in which De Niro called Trump a “monster,” “big bully,” and “sick person,” was particularly wild because, as Mediaite noted in its report on the “The 11th Hour” interview, De Niro began the interview by saying that he is “tired of calling him names.” However, it was far from the most outrageous, as De Niro compared Trump to Hitler.
That wild comparison came when Ruhle asked De Niro how he responds to people who indicate that they are willing to vote for Trump even though they aren’t big fans of the former president’s style or him personally. She asked, “What do you say to those who say, “I don’t like the guy, but I’m going to vote for him”? What’s your message to that?”
Responding, De Niro told Ruhle that he couldn’t understand such a perspective and that he thinks such people are ignorant of how “dangerous” another Trump presidency would be. He said, “I don’t understand it. I don’t I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president. I don’t think they really understand.”
Continuing, he got to the Hitler comparison, saying, “And historically, from what I see, even in Nazi Germany, they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. ‘He looks like a clown. Acts like a clown.’ Mussolini. Same thing. These guys, I don’t know why they look like clowns. They somehow people… That element of society identifies in some ways with them.”
De Niro then alleged that a Trump presidency would be “chaos beyond our imagination,” telling Ruhle, “But it would be chaos beyond our imagination. There’s no mystery about him. He’s right out front. And what he says is what it’ll be if he becomes president.”
That wasn’t all. Later in the interview, De Niro again spoke about Hitler in the context of Trump, saying, “We always hear about people from Eastern Europe, the Jews from other parts of Eastern Europe, from Western Europe coming over. Look what happened with France, and with the Nazis and so on. And they come over and you hear these, and they go, and when I was a kid, they’d say, ‘You don’t really appreciate this country, you know, what we know from experience.’”
Continuing, he said, “Imagine what those people went through. I’m just starting to see it. You know, as a kid, I said “Hitler, it’s a nightmare that never would happen.” But now I see that it’s possible. But those people, sometimes I run into some people who are close to my age, who are from Eastern Europe, European countries or even Nazi Germany and, you know, they… you understand it.”
Watch De Niro here:
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