Robert De Niro: Donald Trump Is ‘Totally Nuts’

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Actor and producer Robert De Niro called Donald Trump “totally nuts” on Saturday.

De Niro says U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should not be running for president.

The star of Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and a 100 other films says the whole Trump movement is “nuts,” and that “he shouldn’t even be where he is, so God help us.”

Channel News Asia reports:

Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about his main opponent Hillary Clinton, guns, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others.

De Niro made the comments to a Sarajevo audience as he presented a digital version of Martin Scorsese’s film “Taxi Driver”, in which he starred, to mark its 40th anniversary.

“I don’t know, it’s crazy that people like Donald Trump …, he shouldn’t even be where he is, so God help us,” De Niro said to wide applause in the Sarajevo National Theater.

“What he’s been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous … he is totally nuts.”

“But I think now they are really starting to push back, the media … finally they are starting to say: Come on Donald, this is ridiculous, this is nuts, this is insane,” De Niro said.

Trump has blamed US news media of taking many his comments out of context.

On Friday night, the 73-year-old actor opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which was founded as an act of defiance towards the end of the city’s 1992-1995 siege during the Bosnian war, and was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to film.

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“I will treasure this award — my Heart of Sarajevo — because I don’t think there is another city in the world that has shown such heart in the face of so much tragedy,” De Niro said at the ceremony.

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10 Comments

    • Trump’s says “crooked” Hillary but she’s not afraid to release all of her tax returns, so how crooked can she be? And if Trump continues to refuse to release his, how can people trust him? He talks a big game about being honest, so what’s he hiding? Communist money.

  1. Trump is now mouthing Russian propaganda on the campaign trail, including his outrageous smear of President Obama as the “founder” of the Islamic State, which has been a staple of Russian Active Measures for a couple years now. The KGB has insidiously burrowed its way deep into the Trump campaign.

  2. D$…rollin&AcTiON-ThRumP-walks in to the dive5&dime-coffee HOT&BLack he barks at the lackie behind the counter.the lacky counters thrumps bark with a sneering grin& the standard old SAY what?.Thrump glares@ the coffee hack…stops dead on the dime and says with a snort now YOU my friend get IT!!!.D$ don`t know action/reaction? go bacs22 actN classes

  3. no one cares what this idiot Deniro has to say- he is lucky to have a job. All these movie stars are a bunch of liberal losers

  4. Hey Robert, why the need to use inflammatory labels when referring to Mr. Trump?  To use your own vernacular, the only person in this race who’s “totally nuts” is Hillary Clinton.  Come on, get your cue cards straight and act the part of a well informed and balanced pundit.

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