“You talkin'” to the Taxi Driver? Prepare for the potty mouth. At age 82, and with an estimated half-billion in the bank, Robert De Niro clearly feels no need to clean up his act for national television.
On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, Trump Hater De Niro, in a discussion of the No Kings protests, unleashed a string of vulgarities that included:
Two f-bombs: one bleeped, the other live over the air.
Telling people to “strap on their balls.”
Saying Rubio would walk out of the room with Trump “if he had balls.”
Claiming that Trump supporters “kiss his a–.”
De Niro’s recurring theme was that at the end of his current term, President Trump will refuse to leave office. Co-host Jonathan Capehart, whom no one would confuse for a Raging Bull, nevertheless demonstrated his solidarity with De Niro, telling him “You and I are on the same wavelength” about that.
You might have thought that co-host Jackie Alemany would have been offended by De Niro telling people to “strap on their balls” to fight Trump. Surely she would have condemned a conservative for saying that, as it suggests male superiority/misogyny.
But left-wing politics apparently trump politeness, especially on MSNBC. Alemany actually said, “speaking of strapping on balls,” and proceeded to indicate that Mamdani is the only NYC mayoral candidate who has the courage to criticize Trump.
De Niro said he didn’t know enough about the candidates in that race to formally endorse one, and demonstrated his lack of familiarity by speaking of “Hamdani.” Nevertheless, De Niro made clear his preference for the socialist who has repeatedly accused Israel of genocide.
And since no unhinged leftist tirade against Trump would be complete without a Nazi reference, De Niro unleashed this ugly slur on Stephen Miller, calling him “the Goebbels of the cabinet. He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish, and he should be ashamed of himself.”
Note: De Niro uttered his unfiltered f-bomb in praising Letitia James, claiming she’s saying that to Trump. Nothing indicates she actually every uttered those words regarding the president. But there is evidence that she figuratively said f-you to the law by claiming, for purposes of getting better loan terms, that a Virginia house 300 miles away from her NYC office was her “principal residence.”
Here’s the transcript.
MSNBCThe Weekend10/19/258:02 am EDT
ROBERT DE NIRO: The original No Kings protest was 250 years ago. Americans decided they didn’t want to live under the rule of King George III. They declared their independence and fought a bloody war for democracy. We’ve had two-and-a-half centuries of democracy since then, often challenging, sometimes messy, always essential. And we fought in two world wars to preserve it.
Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away, King Donald I. [F-bomb bleeped] that. We’re rising up again this time, non-violently raising our voices to declare no kings.
EUGENE DANIELS: Joining us now, actor and activist and curser, Robert De Niro. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
You know, when you look at and hear from all the folks that were out on the streets yesterday, young and old, white and black, from across the political spectrum, small towns and big cities, what do you think that tells you about the difference that we have now, and kind of the resistance that’s growing and where we started in January?
DE NIRO: It tells me that I’m very happy to see that because that’s, we need much more of it going forward, because that’s the only thing that people are going to, the politicians are going to recognize that either face the wrath of Trump or the wrath of the people.
And they have to be more afraid of the wrath of the people and realize this is not good. I better strap on my b—s and do something about it.
DANIELS: Do you think they got that message that that’s going to resonate with them as the week comes into?
DE NIRO: I, I, I, I, it has to, we can’t let up, cannot let up on them because he is not going to leave the White House. He does not want to leave the White House. He will not leave the White House. Anybody thinks he, Oh, he’ll do this. He’ll do that. It’s just deluding themselves.
JACKIE ALEMANY: You know, Speaking of strapping on b—s [Capehart and Daniels laugh]there seems to be only one candidate in the New York City mayoral race who is willing to do that, who has been critical of President Trump right now. Have you decided who you’re voting for yet next month?
DE NIRO: I don’t know, but I have thought of, the thing that I like about Hamdani [sic] is that he’s young, he’s smart, and he means well.
. . .
JONATHAN CAPEHART: You said earlier, Mr. De Niro, about the president, he will not leave the White House. This is where you and I are on the same wavelength, because I’ve long thought —
DE NIRO: No way. He will not. We see it, we see it, we see it every, we see it all the time. He will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess he’s the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish, and he should be ashamed of himself.
ALEMANY: Have you communicated your displeasure with anyone in the Democratic party about the way they’ve handled Trump?
DE NIRO: No, I like what Newsome has done, because he’s trolled him, and he’s fought fire with fire, and that’s what you have to do, and he called him an invasive species, which is what he is. So he’s not, he’s a thing that doesn’t understand, Trump does not understand anything about humanity. People. He has no empathy.
I don’t know where, what he is, but he’s an alien. And what’s what saddens me the most, upsets me the most, is that people follow him. And they think, and they kiss his ass, and they look up to him. And he’s, I mean, I don’t understand it.
I don’t understand the people in his cabinet, some of, Rubio, or anyone, how they can live with themselves after what they’ve allowed him to do and not stood up. Even walk out of the room when what they did with Zelensky the first time.
Rubio, looking at his face, they got the camera on him. If he had balls, he would have walked out.
. . .
I like what Letitia James is doing. She’s fighting back. She’s saying, f— you [unbleeped]! I’m sorry. This is where we are. She’s saying, this is it. I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him. And God bless her for that.
