Legendary actor (and acute sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome) Robert De Niro appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night time and let unfastened his paranoid ravings about what he thinks will occur if President Trump wins the November presidential election, fantasizing that Trump will disappear him and Maher. Maher agreed with De Niro’s perception that Trump is energy mad.
De Niro: The underside line is it’s Biden versus Trump. We need to reside in a world that we need to reside in and revel in residing in or reside in a nightmare. Vote for Trump and also you’ll get the nightmare vote, for Biden and also you’ll, we’ll be again to normalcy.
Maher: Yeah. So, so why is Trump profitable? I imply the ballot, the New York Occasions ballot this week got here out and possibly this may change it with the State of the Union deal with, however it, however Trump was beating him somewhat soundly. It was fairly a warning gentle, 48 to 43, additionally profitable far more amongst ladies, ladies, than he had earlier than, profitable outright Latinos. What do you attribute that to?
De Niro: I don’t know. I, I simply don’t need to really feel the best way I did, and plenty of, many people don’t, after the election in 19, in 2016 uh, the place we couldn’t consider that it occurred. The man is a complete monster. And uh, anyone, I don’t perceive it, the, I assume they get behind that form of logic. They need to f*** with individuals, screw them, as a result of they’re sad about one thing. He’s such a imply, nasty, hateful individual. I, I’d by no means pay, play him as an actor as a result of he’s, I can’t see any good in him, nothing, nothing in any respect, nothing redeemable in him. Um, and now we have to, and whoever the persons are who need to vote for him, and so they appear to be clever individuals round there any person, for some motive it may well’t be, it can’t be. If he’s, he wins the election, he, you gained’t be on the present anymore, he’ll come on the lookout for me (Laughter). He, they’ll, there’ll be, there’ll be issues that occur that none of us can think about. Um, that’s what occurs in that form of a dictatorship which is what he says. Let’s consider him, take him at his phrase.
Maher: I did did from the start.
De Niro: Yeah.
Maher: I imply I stated from the very starting this man is rarely going to concede energy. And he nonetheless hasn’t. He nonetheless hasn’t. He hasn’t admitted he misplaced the final election. And he advertises that he’ll go on, he suppose, he says he’s been cheated out of 1 time period. So possibly we should always eliminate the one, a president solely will get two phrases factor. So…
De Niro: He’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. (Loud applause) He’s, he’s a harmful individual and now we have to actual, individuals actual, I’ve lots of people, this viewers, however the individuals who one way or the other suppose he’s gonna be the reply to their prayers, no matter these are.
Maher: Do you know…
De Niro: No.
Maher: …him when as fellow New Yorkers?
De Niro: By no means wished to know him.
Maher: By no means wished to…
De Niro: No.
Maher: You will need to have crossed…
De Niro: He’s an an fool! (Loud applause and laughter). He, he was a clown! He was a clown in New York! And uh, New Yorkers stated, you recognize some would go along with him in fact, individuals who work in what he does, a few of them, however, it’s simply he’s a traditional bully. If you happen to had a schoolyard and he walked in and he had the his bully pals round, the opposite individuals resolve whether or not they need to oppose him or they need to let him simply inform them what to do and and and personal that the schoolyard or the basketball courtroom or no matter it’s. He’s obtained to be stopped!
Transcribed by TGP.
Final November, De Niro made headlines with a Bidenesque look at an awards present:
De Niro has been nominated for an Academy Award for Greatest Supporting Actor for final 12 months’s Killers of the Flower Moon. De Niro gained the Greatest Actor Oscar in 1981 for Raging Bull and the Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar in 1975 for Godfather II. De Niro has appeared in traditional dramas and comedies over the a long time together with Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, On line casino, Meet the Dad and mom, The Deer Hunter, Analyze This, The King of Comedy, As soon as Upon a Time in America and Midnight Run, amongst many different movies.
