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Robert De Niro teared up and choked up when he passionately discussed Donald Trump on a podcast.
The progressive actor — a frequent and longtime critic of the president — appeared on Nicolle Wallaces MS NOW podcast, The Best People, on Monday, where he tore into Trump and urged people to protest his actions.
Trump is the enemy of this country, lets not kid ourselves, De Niro said. Its that simple. Everybody has to stick together to get them out and get back on track. We can all argue and fight about our little differences and all that. This is the big problem. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories TV When and Where to Watch the 2026 State of the Union Online TV Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Air, Reacts to Trump Attack in Fundraising Email
When asked if he thought Trump would step down at the end of his second term, De Niro replied, No way.
He wont leave, De Niro said firmly. Lets not kid ourselves. He. Will. Not. Leave. Its up to us to get rid of him. We have to make sure Weve got to get rid of him. Hes going to ruin the country. People have to mobilize now and be ready for the midterms.
In addition, De Niro made the case for people peacefully protesting and uniting against Trump in every legal way possible.
Everybody has to get out there every way possible, De Niro said. This is our country. You know, I want my country back. I dont want everybody going around with their MAGA flags and American flags like theyre the only ones [who are patriotic]. We are Americans, too. And there are more of us because we believe in whats right and wrong; empathy, and kindness. Bringing the country together, not dispersing it I understand tribalism — you stick with your own and all that. But this is way, way, way more serious. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid","mid-article2","mid-articleX"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });
In fact, even if Trump dies, De Niro is concerned that the movement hes created wont go away.
Even if Trump dies for some reason — by having an illness or something — parts of that movement are still there, and thats the scary part, he said. It has to be neutralized by the people who say, Wait a minute, our rights are being trampled on. We have to stand up. Period.'
During the most emotional part of the interview, Wallace played a clip of De Niros 1981 Oscars acceptance speech for best actor and asked him about why hes always been driven to lift up everybody around you.
You have to lift people up, the 82-year-old Goodfellas actor said, his voice cracking and eyes watering. You have to bring them together, period. You cant divide people. You cant win that way. Its a no-win situation. Its almost like our destiny to have this thing there attempting to destroy this country, and maybe not even understanding why. So its up to us to protect the country that we love.
Trump has slammed De Niro repeatedly in turn, including today, when he urged the actor to leave the country on Truth Social, writing, [Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashia Tlaib of Michigan] should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL.
If youre interested in De Niros comments, its worth watching the whole 40-minute video rather than just reading the cherry-picked quotes above because this is a very earnest, deep-dive conversation that gets into a lot of detail about the actors feelings on this issue.
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