Oscar winner Robert De Niro wasted no time criticizing former President Donald Trump and his supporters in his Friday appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Before the evening's panel discussion, Maher interviewed De Niro, who is a nominee for this year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The host began by asking the actor about his thoughts on Trump's lead in the polls. De Niro didn't hold back and lambasted Trump's supporters as people who “like to f**k with people.” De Niro also warned Maher that if Trump were to be reelected, he would come after both of them. (RELATED: Hollywood Liberal Hit With Surprise Indictment)
“So why is Trump winning?,” Maher mused, according to the transcript obtained by Mediaite. “I mean, the poll, The New York Times poll this week came out, and maybe this will change it with the State of the Union address. But but Trump was beating him rather soundly. It was quite a warning light, 48 to 43, also winning way more among women. Women! Than he had before winning outright Latinos. What do you attribute that to?”
De Niro was flummoxed: “I don't know, I just don't want to feel the way I did. And many, many of us don't. After the election in 2016, where we couldn't believe that it happened.”
The “Raging Bull” and “Goodfellas” star proceeded to let loose:
The guy is a total monster. And, anybody. I don't understand it. Yeah, I guess they get behind that kind of logic. They want to f**k with people, screw them because they're unhappy about some. 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.
And we have to. And whoever the people are who want to vote for him and – . Look like intelligent people around this, I mean, for some reason, it can't be. It can not be! If he is, he wins the election. He. You won't be on this show anymore. He'll come looking for me. You know, there'll be. There'll be things that happen that none of us can imagine. That's what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says. Let's believe and take him at his word.
Maher interrupted, claiming that he had taken Trump seriously from the start:
I mean, I said from the very beginning this guy is never going to concede power. And he still hasn't. He still hasn't – just admitted he lost the last election and he advertises that he will go on. He he says he's been cheated out of one term. So maybe we should get rid of the only a president only gets two terms thing.
“So he's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” De Niro continued, but the audience interrupted him with applause. “He's. He is a dangerous person. We have two people. We have a lot of people, this audience. But the people who somehow think he's going to be the answer to their prayers, whatever those are.”
(H/T Mediaite)
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