He never did like Trump—and Robert De Niro has a long public history to prove it. But on Sunday night at the 2018 Tony Awards, the legendary actor took his disdain for Trump to another level using a massive international platform to drop an F-bomb on the often-called “illegitimate president.” The crowd roared with a sort of wild abandon and many rose to their feet to give De Niro, and his sentiments, a standing ovation. Here is a clip from Australia where De Niro’s words were not censored.
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“I’m goanna say one thing—Fuck Trump!” It’s no longer ‘own with Trump. It’s fuck Trump!’”
In response to De Niro, one of the most clever, crude and popular tweets of the night was by Billy Eichner who played upon the recent entanglement involving Roseanne Barr, Samantha Bee and Ivanka Trump (Eichner took Bee’s side while showing no love for VP Mike Pence).
Some will call De Niro’s comment stupid and crass, some will call it risky and bold, Fox will have a heyday and Trump will have a tweet. But those words reflect the anger, disgust and apprehension so many Americans feel right now. And this night will go down in American history as yet another form of the people’s resistance—the same resistance that will lawfully take down Trump and his self-serving administration and sack of treasonous GOP accomplices.