Legendary actor Robert De Niro recently launched a scathing rant about former President Donald Trump and his supporters. He coined a new Trump term and called him a string of derogatory names via Mediaite.
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic’s panel guests were Max Brooks and Tara Palmeri, and his interview guest was De Niro.
In his interview with De Niro, Maher asked what the actor attributes Trump’s lead in the polls to, and De Niro didn’t hold back. He ripped Trump fans as those who “like to f**k with people” and warned Trump would come after him in a second term:
BILL MAHER: So why is Trump winning? 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?
ROBERT DENIRO: 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 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 fuck 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.
BILL MAHER: I did, from the beginning.
ROBERT DENIRO: Yeah.
BILL MAHER: 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.
ROBERT DENIRO: So he’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. (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.
