Liberal Robert De Niro continued his never-ending quest to hammer President Trump on Thursday evening, when the actor was a guest on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Of course, the 76-year-old activist couldn’t even discuss the protests and coronavirus pandemic taking place across the country without slamming the Republican occupant of the White House.
He claimed the pandemic "could have been avoided if Trump had listened to his people in the intelligence community,” adding, “They kept telling him something was coming.”
The actor stated:
What scares me is that people just were afraid to tell him the truth. And if you tell him the truth, then he’s going to be mad at you and he’s going to let you go and then what? It’s crazy. It’s like telling a crazy relative -- you avoid arguing with them because they’re going to go crazy, but they run the country, you have to!
Fallon didn’t challenge his guest’s premise, agreeing with “Yeah, he’s the crazy relative.”
De Niro then plunged even further into his hostile attitude by noting: “You know, there’s no choice” because “your allegiance is to the country, not to him.”
“So there’s the insanity of it all,” he continued, “and we’re all paying the price” for the resulting chaos.
Without providing any specific examples of his assertion, the liberal guest went on: “Granted, it might have been worse than we would have hoped but never what it is now. Never, never, never.”
Fallon then tossed a softball question De Niro's way by asking: “Could you have ever seen what’s happening in our country or in our lifetime?”
“No,” the liberal activist replied. “No, it’s unimaginable. It’s like a surreal science fiction movie.”
Again, the NBC late-night host helpfully agreed with the actor’s bizarre premise.
“It really is, yeah,” Fallon stated before noting: ”I know you’re a pretty hopeful guy. Are you hoping for change? Do you think it’ll come around?”
That “pretty hopeful guy” grumbled:
I’m hoping that the course has changed, and that not many people will suffer because we also had- -- all the protests and everything going on, rightfully so. People were so angry that they didn’t care, it seems. They said: “I’m going out anyway. I’ll wear a mask."
“So again,” he added, “that’s saying another thing again exacerbated by the situation with this administration.”
De Niro also referred to the President “going out in Lafayette Park in front of a church with a Bible,” an act he called “beyond absurd, beyond the theater of the absurd.”
“It’s crazy,” he continued before demanding of Trump and his administration: “Stop it!”
Read the transcript below:
DE NIRO: This whole thing could have been avoided if Trump had listened to his people in the intelligence community. They kept telling him something was coming.
What scares me is that people just were afraid to tell him the truth. And if you tell him the truth, then he’s going to be mad at you and he’s going to let you go and then what? It’s crazy. It’s like telling a crazy relative… you avoid arguing with them because they’re going to go crazy, but they run the country, you have to!
FALLON: Yeah, he’s the crazy relative.
DE NIRO: You know, there’s no choice. Your allegiance is to the country, not to him.so there’s the insanity of it all, and we’re all paying the price, and the chaos is just from when he started … when he was a businessman on his own.
Granted, it might have been worse than we would have hoped but never what it is now. Never, never, never.
FALLON: Could you have ever seen what’s happening in our country or in our lifetime?
DE NIRO: No. No, it’s unimaginable. It’s like a surreal science fiction movie.
FALLON: It really is, yeah. I know you’re a pretty hopeful guy. Are you hoping for change? Do you think it’ll come around?
DE NIRO: I’m hoping that the course has changed, and that not many people will suffer because we also had a -- all the protests and everything going on, rightfully so, people were so angry that they didn’t care, it seems.
They said “I’m going out anyway. I’ll wear a mask.” I think a lot of people did wear masks. It seems that way, but that’s how angry everybody was. So again, that’s saying another thing again exacerbated by the situation with this administration.
Then of course, what they did for him going out in Lafayette Park in front of a church with a Bible.
It’s beyond absurd, beyond the theater of the absurd. It’s crazy. Stop it.
