Robert De Niro He openly hates Donald Trump, and the actor had some choice words for the former president at a New York screening of the film. huge city During a Q&A with Spike Lee and the film's director Francis Ford Coppola, De Niro urged the audience to “imagine Donald Trump directing this movie.”
“It's never going anywhere, it's just crazy,” De Niro said (via Delivery date“He can’t do anything. He can’t hold anything together,” he said. “He wants to destroy the country. He couldn’t make this movie. He couldn’t do anything with structure.”
During a Q&A session held at AMC Lincoln Square IMAX in New York, the actor and filmmakers drew comparisons between the film's story and current politics in the United States.
“I see in Francis' movie what it's all about, the parallels and all that,” De Niro said. “For me, it's not over until it's over, and we have to keep working with all our heart to defeat the Republicans.” Those “Republicans aren’t real Republicans, they’re beating Trump. It’s that simple. We can’t have this kind of people. Everyone needs to get out and vote.”
“As my sister says, go forward, not backward,” she added. “It’s simple: register to vote and show up… This is going to be a very close election. I’m a sports fan, and the expression I use is it’s not over until it’s over. We can’t think the game is over when it’s not.”
Earlier this month, De Niro participated in “Paisans for Kamala,” a livestreamed event featuring prominent Italian-American figures supporting Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. During the event, De Niro said he was “very optimistic about everything.”
“I’m very excited, but for me, it’s not over until it’s over,” the actor said. “So we can’t think for a second that we’re ahead of this. We just have to be on our toes all the way to the end because they’re going to try everything when Election Day comes. When are these things going to be final? What are they going to ask? What are they going to play with? We know it’s coming, we see it coming. We just have to be vigilant, and it’s not over until it’s over.”
He added that he does not want a repeat of what happened on January 6, noting, “I think people will think twice before doing anything about it regardless of what Trump says, because people pay the price, and is it worth it to them? Especially following someone like him? You know, it's crazy.”
In May, De Niro clashed with pro-Trump protesters outside the former president’s New York trial over his insistence that he not pay a bribe. “Donald Trump does not belong in my city,” De Niro told the crowd at a news conference. “We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just a dirty real estate con man masquerading as a VIP. A womanizer who lied his way into the tabloids. He’s a clown.”
The actor previously narrated a Joe Biden ad before the president dropped out of the campaign. The 30-inch ad targeted Trump, with De Niro promising a “bloodbath” if Trump lost the election again. “Trump wants revenge and he will stop at nothing to get it,” De Niro said in the ad.
