Actor Robert De Niro lashed out at President Trump and his supporters Monday night, saying the president used the “same playbook” as Adolf Hitler and is “confounded” by Americans who voted for the president’s reelection.
“It’s the same playbook as Mussolini, as Hitler, as wannabe dictators,” De Niro told MSNBC’s Ari Melber Monday night. “It’s what they’re going to do for the people, make Germany great again, make Italy great again, make America great again. It’s all appealing to the worst prejudices, the worst weaknesses of the public, and instead of leading them and guiding them and being someone that they can look up to. And when the public is not right, you have to be there to do the right thing, to set an example for them. And if you don’t, then we’re going to be where we are today.”
De Niro added: “I’m not like political, but I was so angry and so enraged and confounded that he would actually behave the way he did and that people bought it. Now I see many, many, many people in the country feel this way. I’m sad about other people who don’t. They’ve accepted him and would have voted for him and have voted for him. I don’t know why. That’s all that it was from the very beginning. Just how could this guy behave this way? That’s all.”
De Niro also thanked God over the presumed election of Joe Biden as president, saying, “he’s going to bring us into calm waters.”
The 77-year-old Goodfellas actor has been a consistent critic of President Trump, saying last year that a “bag of shit” should be rubbed in the president’s face and threatening to punch him in the face in 2016.
