8 times Robert De Niro dissed Donald Trump in public
Robert DeNiro has often used public platforms to ridicule Trump
Robert De Niro has always been a vocal critic of the former president Donald Trump and has never shied away from voicing his contempt for the 2024 presidential candidate. For instance, at the recent Cannes Film Festival press conference for 'Killers of the Flower Moon' in May, the octogenarian actor called Donald Trump "stupid" while discussing the "banality of evil," though he refused to utter Trump's name. He stated, “It’s the banality of evil. It’s the thing we have to watch out for. We see it today, of course. We all know who I’m going to talk about. But I’m not going to say the name,” said De Niro before adding, “That guy is stupid,” per Variety.
Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump 'evil'
In October 2023, De Niro could not attend the Stop Trump Summit in New York due to Covid, but his statement was read where he called the GOP presidential candidate "evil." He wrote in the statement, “I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men. I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly. I see an evil one," per The Guardian.
Robert De Niro likens Donald Trump to 'crazy relative'
In an interview on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon', De Niro once slammed the Trump administration's response to Covid pandemic, saying, "What scares me is that people were afraid to tell him the truth. If you tell him the truth then he's gonna get mad at you and he's gonna let you go, and then what?" He continued, "It's crazy. It's like telling a crazy relative... You avoid arguing with them because they're gonna go crazy – but they run the country!"
Robert De Niro equates Trump era with 'living in an abusive household’
In 2019, 'The Irishman' star lamented that living in America under Trump's rule was like living in an "abusive household." He told 'The Late Show' host Stephen Colbert that “It’s like living in an abusive household,” before adding, “You don’t know what’s going to happen next, what crazy thing is going to happen next, what’s going to make you say what the hell’s going on?” per Huffington Post.
Robert De Niro said Donald Trump has 'nothing redeemable about him'
In an interview with The New York Times, De Niro slammed Trump saying, "[He] is a person who, to me, has no morals, no ethics, no sense of right and wrong, is a dirty player.
I wouldn’t want to play him. He’s such an awful person," before adding, "There’s nothing redeemable about him, and I never say that about any character."
Robert De Niro says 'Trump cares only about one thing'
In 2019, before the presidential election, De Niro told The Independent in an interview, "Trump cares only about one thing: he wants to be the boss. He will be the boss no matter what it takes." He further warned the problems if Trump won the second term saying, "If he did win the next election, there's definitely more chance of him allowing us to get into a war, and if you're a president in a war, it's more likely you would stay for a third term. Imagine him in a third term."
Robert De Niro said Donald Trump 'thinks he's a gangster'
'The Godfather II' actor equated the Republican politician with a gangster during an appearance at 'The Graham Norton Show'. He said, "Today, we kind of have a weird twisted president who thinks he’s a gangster, who's not even a good gangster."
Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump 'is a real racist'
In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, De Niro said, "When you see someone like him becoming president, I thought, well, okay, let's see what he does – maybe he'll change. But he just got worse," before adding, "It showed me that he is a real racist. I thought maybe as a New Yorker he understands the diversity in the city, but he's as bad as a I thought he was before, and much worse. It's a shame. It's a bad thing in this country."
'F*ck Trump!'
During the Tony Awards 2018, De Niro said "F*ck Trump!" per The Guardian, using the public platform to air his ire. The 2024 elections are still a few months off. So, it is a wait and watch game as De Niro probably has a veritable collection of insults meant for Trump as the Democrat vs Republican battle heats up.
