Last year, the Media Research Center had a series of meltdowns over acting legend Robert De Niro having some less-than-kind words about Donald Trump. Well, De Niro’s words have continued — and so have the MRC’s meltdowns:
- Alex Christy got mad in a September 2024 post that CNN’s Chris Wallace “marveled at De Niro labeling Trump a ‘gangster’ and claimed that the accusation means more coming from him because he has played gangsters in movies.”
- Later that month, Christian Toto grumbled about De Niro using a press conference for the film “Megalopolis” to lash out at Trump, huffing that “This isn’t the first time De Niro used an entertainment podium to attack Trump.”
Mark Finkelstein spent an Oct. 20 post raging about another De Niro TV appearance:
“You talkin'” to the Taxi Driver? Prepare for the potty mouth. At age 82, and with an estimated half-billion in the bank, Robert De Niro clearly feels no need to clean up his act for national television.
On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, Trump Hater De Niro, in a discussion of the No Kings protests, unleashed a string of vulgarities that included:
- Two f-bombs: one bleeped, the other live over the air.
- Telling people to “strap on their balls.”
- Saying Rubio would walk out of the room with Trump “if he had balls.”
- Claiming that Trump supporters “kiss his a–.”
De Niro’s recurring theme was that at the end of his current term, President Trump will refuse to leave office. Co-host Jonathan Capehart, whom no one would confuse for a Raging Bull, nevertheless demonstrated his solidarity with De Niro, telling him “You and I are on the same wavelength” about that.
You might have thought that co-host Jackie Alemany would have been offended by De Niro telling people to “strap on their balls” to fight Trump. Surely she would have condemned a conservative for saying that, as it suggests male superiority/misogyny.
Funny, we don’t recall Finkelstein getting all outraged over conservative misogyny — to the point where it has embraced hip-hop lyrics.