You Knew Robert De Niro Would Turn Film Premiere Into Trump-Trashing Fest

Robert De Niro discovered a means Monday to zing Republican nominee Donald Trump at a screening for a film that the actor isn’t even in.

The cinema icon appeared earlier than the “Megalopolis” New York premiere in a half-hour Q&A with the sci-fi movie’s author and director, Francis Ford Coppola, and one other filmmaking nice, Spike Lee.

“Simply think about Donald Trump directing this movie,” De Niro mentioned, per Deadline. “It’ll by no means go anyplace … He can’t do something. He can’t maintain something collectively. … He wants to destroy the country. And he couldn’t do that film. He couldn’t do something that has a construction.”

In line with The Hollywood Reporter, Coppola at one level drew comparisons between historic Rome and present-day America. The nation’s prospects gave the impression to be on De Niro’s thoughts as properly.

“I’m fearful,” De Niro mentioned, per the San Francisco Chronicle. “I see the issues in Francis’ movie about that, the parallels and so forth. To me, it’s not over until it’s over and we’ve to go at this wholeheartedly to beat the Republicans —these Republicans, they’re not actual Republicans — and beat Trump. It’s that straightforward. We can’t have that kind of individual. Everyone has to get on the market and vote.”

Lee chimed in as properly. “As my sister says, ahead not backward,” he mentioned. “It’s easy: Register to vote and present up. …. This election goes to be very, very shut.”

De Niro has been a celebrity thorn in Trump’s side for years, nevertheless it just lately price him an honor.

The “Raging Bull” Oscar winner, who additionally gained a supporting actor Oscar in Coppola’s “The Godfather Half II,” was stripped of a philanthropy award in Might for campaigning for then-candidate President Joe Biden exterior of Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan.

“It’s clear that Mr. De Niro’s latest high-profile actions will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we had been hoping to acknowledge,” the Nationwide Affiliation of Broadcasters’ Management Basis mentioned in rescinding the award.