“It was jerkoff-in-chief, now it’s…”
Robert De Niro is a man who does not give a fuck, if his speech to the press to launch the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival is anything to go by, as he tears into US President Donald Trump.
The legendary actor has a new name for the former host of The Apprentice who now resides in The White House (between weekend golf trips to Florida, of course).
“America is being run by a mad man,” he said.
“When he doesn’t like what he hears, he dismisses it by saying it’s un-American and damning and it’s ‘fake news,’ but we know the truth. All thinking people do know the truth.
“Your job is difficult enough without being attacked by our lowlife-in-chief, that’s the new name I have for him,” De Niro told the assembled press.
“It was jerkoff-in-chief, now it’s lowlife-in-chief.”
De Niro believes that the media will play a leading role in taking Trump down.
“The press has done an admiral job this past year. We’re looking at journalists as our saviors in the same way we used to look at our political leaders,” he said.
“It’s come to the entertainment and cultural committees to show that we’re open to ideas different than ours, that we welcome cultures foreign to us, that we embrace diversity, that we’ll continue to support telling their stories, because ultimately they’re our stories.”
It’s safe to say De Niro’s stance has not softened on the Tango Tyrant.
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