Robert De Niro celebrated his archenemy Donald Trump being convicted of 34 felonies after exchanging insults throughout the trial.
The Hollywood actor has a long-running feud with the former president and convicted criminal and was more than happy to put the boot to him.
But he admitted he was worried about his safety as one of Trump’s most visible and strident critics, given the passion of his millions of followers.
De Niro weighed in on the jury’s verdict in the “hush money” trial on a day when Trump ridiculed him with a deeply false online video.
Robert De Niro celebrated his archenemy Donald Trump being convicted of 34 felonies after exchanging insults throughout the trial.
“I think justice was done,” he said. Variety at an event for his new movie Ezra.
“This should never have come to this point,” added the actor, who provided voice-over for a Biden campaign ad, agreeing that the verdict could affect the election.
‘I don’t want to talk, but I’m very upset about this. I have to say something. This is my country. This guy wants to destroy it. Period. ‘He’s crazy.’
When De Niro was asked if he ever feared for his safety, he said yes, but he refused to be intimidated by Trump or threats from his fans.
‘Think about it. It makes me angrier, but I have to be afraid of being bullied. And that’s why I said, ‘They’re not going to intimidate us,’ she stated.
‘People are fed up and are going to fight back. That’s not what we do in this country.
After calling De Niro “crazy” following his rant outside Manhattan criminal court, Trump posted a deepfake video that manipulated the actor’s voice to call himself “finished.”
Trump gestures to the media and crowd outside Trump Tower after a jury found him guilty of all 34 counts in his criminal trial.
“I think justice was done,” he said of Trump’s verdict at an event for his new film Ezra.
Trump posted the video from his Truth Social account. He introduces De Niro at a press conference hosted by the Biden campaign outside the Stormy Daniels trial, with the same alarm bell that accompanied the original.
Only this time, the Academy Award winner calls himself a “scared little man” and a “sick man” with “a lot of 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 I wasn’t wearing my platform shoes,” the actor says in a manipulated voice that resembles his own.
‘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.”
Former President Donald Trump published a ‘deep fake’ video that manipulated actor Robert De Niro’s voice to ridicule himself.
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 kneel…” says the deepfake version of De Niro, with a crude reference in the video published by the former president.
The deepfake also includes a nod to DeNiro’s performance in ‘Meet the Parents’, saying that if Trump is re-elected ‘sick people like me will be permanently excluded from the circle of trust.’
The crude video comes after DeNiro criticized Trump at the New York press conference, after providing the voiceover for a video that attacked the former president as a “clown” and a wannabe “dictator.”
‘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.
Trump posted the video to his Truth Social account while awaiting jury deliberations in his criminal trial in Manhattan.
Former President Donald Trump reviewed Robert De Niro’s performance outside of his hush money case overnight Wednesday on his Truth Social website.
He said that if Trump is re-elected he would 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.
Trump supporters booed him during the appearance.
“We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another dirty real estate hustler dressed as a big shot,” De Niro said of Trump.
A small-time playboy who makes his way into the tabloids. A clown.’
But this city is quite welcoming. “We make room for clowns,” the actor continued.
“But not a person like Trump, who will eventually rule the country, that doesn’t work and we all know it.”
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller followed up with his own press conference by criticizing De Niro as a “washed-up actor.”