Actor Robert De Niro on Tuesday called Donald Trump a “clown,” and said New Yorkers will no longer tolerate him, while he stumped for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign outside the former president's New York criminal trial.
De Niro, who attended the press conference with former police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who protected the Capitol on January 6th, noted that Trump’s trial was taking place in his hometown.
“I owe this city a lot. And that's why it's so weird that Donald Trump is just across the street. Because he doesn't belong in my city. I don't know where he belongs, but he certainly doesn't belong here,” De Niro said.
Closing arguments were taking place in the former president’s hush money criminal trial, and the jury is expected to start deliberating this week.
“We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot; a two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids, pretending to be a spokesman — a spokesperson — for himself. He was calling it as himself, for himself, to fool the press into inflating his net worth,” De Niro said. “A clown. But this city is pretty accommodating. We make room for clowns. We have them all over the city, people who do crazy things in the street. We tolerate it, it's part of the city, it's part of the culture. But not a person like Trump, who will eventually run the country. That does not work and we all know that.”
