Legendary actor (and acute Trump syndrome sufferer) Robert De Niro appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night and unleashed his paranoid delusions about what he thinks will happen if President Trump wins the presidential election of November, fantasizing that Trump will disappear. him and Maher. Maher agreed with De Niro’s belief that Trump is power-mad.
De Niro: The point is, it’s Biden versus Trump. We want to live in a world we want to live in and like to live in or live in a nightmare. Vote for Trump and you will have the nightmare vote, for Biden and you will return to normal.
Maher: Yes. So why is Trump winning? I mean, the poll, the New York Times poll came out this week and maybe that will change things with the State of the Union address, but Trump was beating it pretty soundly. It was a nice bright sign, 48 to 43, also winning much more among the women, women, than he had done before, winning the Latins outright. What do you attribute it to?
De Niro: I don’t know. I just don’t want to feel the way I felt, and many, many of us don’t, after the ’19 election, in 2016, where we couldn’t believe it happened. The guy is a total monster. And uh, whoever, I don’t understand, I guess they’re behind that kind of logic. They want to fuck with people, not to care, because they are unhappy about something. He is such a mean, evil, hateful person. I, I would never pay, I play him as an actor because I can’t see anything good in him, nothing, absolutely nothing, nothing redeemable in him. Um, and we have to do this, and whoever the people are that want to vote for him, and they seem like smart people over there, someone, for some reason it can’t be, it can’t be. If he is, he wins the election, he won’t be on the show anymore, he’ll come looking for me (Laughter). He, they, there will be, there will be things that will happen that none of us can imagine. Um, that’s what happens in that kind of dictatorship, as he says. Let’s believe him, let’s take him at his word.
Maher: I’ve been doing it since the beginning.
De Niro: Yes.
Maher: I mean, I’ve said from the beginning that this guy will never relinquish power. And he hasn’t done it yet. He hasn’t done it yet. He did not admit that he lost the last elections. And he says that he will continue, he thinks, he says that a mandate has been taken away from him. So maybe we should get rid of the one thing, a president only gets two terms. AS…
De Niro: He is a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. (Loud applause) He is a dangerous person and we have to be real, real people, I have a lot of people, this audience, but people who somehow think that he will be the answer to their prayers, whatever they may be.
Maher: Did you know…
De Niro: No.
Maher: …when he was a fellow New Yorker?
De Niro: I never wanted to meet him.
Maher: I never wanted…
De Niro: No.
Maher: You must have gone through…
De Niro: He’s an idiot! (Loud applause and laughter.) He was a clown! He was a clown in New York! And uh, New Yorkers said, you know some would go with him obviously, people who work at what he does, some of them, but it’s just he’s a classic bully. If you had a schoolyard and he came in and had his bully friends around, other people decided whether they want to stand up to him or they want to just let him tell them what to do and and own the schoolyard or the basketball court or whatever it is. He must be stopped!
Transcribed by TGP.
Last November, De Niro made headlines with a bidene-style appearance at an awards ceremony:
De Niro was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for last year’s Killers of the Flower Moon. De Niro won the Oscar for best actor in 1981 for Raging Bull and the Oscar for best supporting actor in 1975 for The Godfather II. De Niro appeared in classic dramas and comedies over the decades, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Meet the Parents, The Deer Hunter, Analyze This, The King of Comedy, Once Upon a Time in America and Midnight Express, among many other films. .