Robert De Niro will no longer be honored at the National Association of Broadcasters awards ceremony following his anti-Trump rant outside the former president’s criminal trial.
The Oscar-winning actor, 80, was to receive the Leadership Foundation’s Service to America award next week.
But the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) rescinded the award after De Niro attacked Donald Trump at a press conference in support of Joe Biden outside Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.
‘I owe a lot to this city. And that’s why it’s so strange that Donald Trump is across the street, because he doesn’t belong in my city,” he told reporters.
NAB, which describes itself as “proudly bipartisan,” said De Niro would no longer attend its event.
Robert De Niro will no longer be honored at the National Association of Broadcasters awards ceremony following his anti-Trump rant outside the former president’s criminal trial.
The Oscar-winning actor, 80, was to receive the Leadership Foundation’s Service to America award next week.
“This event is proudly bipartisan and unites people from across the political spectrum to celebrate the impactful work of local broadcasters and our partners,” a NAB spokesperson said. The hill.
‘While we strongly support the right of all Americans to exercise free speech and engage in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr. De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work we hoped to recognize.
“To maintain the focus on serving the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer attend the event.”
It comes days after De Niro said he joined Biden’s campaign because it was the only way to “preserve our freedoms.”
‘I don’t mean to scare you. “No, wait, maybe I want to scare you,” she told reporters.
“If Trump returns to the White House, he can say goodbye to these freedoms that we all take for granted.”
The actor portrayed himself as the real New Yorker and mocked Trump’s history of sometimes failed business ventures and self-promotion, saying Trump sought to “destroy” the city.
“We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another shitty real estate hustler dressed as a big shot,” De Niro said.
‘I love this city. I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country and eventually he could destroy the world.”
He said that if Trump is re-elected he will never relinquish power.
‘I can tell you right now. He will never leave. He will never leave. You know it. He will never leave,” De Niro said.
But the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has rescinded the award.
It comes after De Niro attacked Donald Trump at a press conference in support of Joe Biden outside Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump reviewed Robert De Niro’s performance outside of his hush money case overnight Wednesday on his Truth Social website.
Last week, the Biden campaign released a new ad narrated by De Niro harshly criticizing Trump’s presidency and his plans if he is re-elected.
Trump called De Niro “crazy” after his rant outside Manhattan Criminal Court and posted a fake video manipulating the actor’s own voice to call himself “broken.”
The former president published the video from his Truth Social account where the actor calls himself a ‘scared little man’ and a ‘sick man’ with ‘many skeletons in my closet’.
It also insults his height, calls Trump a “real man” and includes crude references to gay sex.
‘I don’t know why they put this podium so high. “I told them I came straight from the bathhouse and that I wasn’t wearing my platform shoes,” says the actor with a manipulated voice that resembles his own in the video released by Trump to his followers.
‘I speak to you today because I am a scared little man, a washed-up actor with many skeletons in my closet. People like me need Joe Biden and power not because he’s good, but because he enjoys the same sick perversions,” he says.
The manipulated ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Godfather Part II’ actor then says he can only ‘pretend to be tough and powerful on a movie set.’
‘If Donald Trump were in front of me right now, he would punch me in the face, I would duck…’ says the deepfake version of De Niro, with a crude reference in the video published by the former president.
DailyMail.com has contacted NAB for comment.