Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro blasted former President Donald Trump as a “complete monster” throughout an look on Actual Time With Invoice Maher on Friday.
“He’s such a imply, nasty, hateful individual. I’d by no means play him as an actor, as a result of I can’t see any good in him. Nothing. Nothing in any respect. Nothing redeemable in him,” De Niro mentioned.
The actor, noting that the November election will seemingly be a rematch of Trump versus Biden, argued {that a} repeat Trump presidency can be a “nightmare,” whereas a vote for Biden would return America “to normalcy.”
“I simply don’t wish to really feel the way in which I did. And many people don’t,” he mentioned, referring to Trump’s shock victory in 2016.
“It might’t be. It can’t be,” De Niro continued. “If he wins the election, you gained’t be on this present anymore. He’ll come in search of me. [There will] be issues that occur that none of us can think about. That’s what occurs in that type of a dictatorship, which is what he says [he wants]. Let’s imagine him. Take him at his phrase.”
De Niro mentioned he had hassle empathizing with Trump’s supporters, although he speculated that they’ve backed the candidate due to his message of shock. “They wish to fuck with folks, screw them, as a result of they’re sad about one thing,” he mentioned.
Trump, he declared to an prolonged spherical of applause, is “a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” including, “He’s a harmful individual… [People] one way or the other suppose he’s going to be the reply to their prayers, no matter these are, God is aware of.”
De Niro mentioned he didn’t know Trump throughout his years as an actual property tycoon in New York, and that he by no means desired to. “He was an fool,” he mentioned. “He was a clown.”
Concluding his diatribe, the actor blasted Trump as a traditional schoolyard bully supported by a posse of servile yes-men.
“Individuals determine whether or not they wish to oppose him, or they wish to let him simply inform them what to do and personal the schoolyard or the basketball courtroom or no matter it’s,” he mentioned. “He’s acquired to be stopped.”
