Robert De Niro Gets Emotional Urging Americans To Resist Trump | EUROtoday

Robert De Niro has made no secret about what he thinks of President Donald Trumphowever he obtained very emotional concerning the state of the U.S. below Trump throughout an interview with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday.

“The story is our country, and Trump is destroying it, and who knows what his reasons are, but it’s sick, it’s fucked up,” De Niro mentioned. “We have to save this country.”

Toward the tip of the interview, De Niro appeared on the verge of tears when Wallace requested him why he makes some extent of thanking the individuals who work for him at awards exhibits.

“You have to — you have to lift people up,” the actor mentioned, together with his voice beginning to crack, earlier than explaining, “You have to bring them together. You can’t divide people, you can’t win that way.”

Things obtained emotional as De Niro pivoted again to discussing Trump’s divisive presidency.

“It’s a no-win situation, and look what we have, look who we have there, it’s almost like a destiny to have this thing there, destroying… attempting to destroy this country and maybe not even understanding why. So it’s up to us to protect the country,” he mentioned.

“You weren’t supposed to make me cry,” Wallace informed De Niro earlier than she famous that the U.S. appears to be dealing with a second the place issues may go “one way or the other” — a seeming reference as to if the nation’s democratic traditions proceed. She requested point-blank: “You think it’s going the other way?”

De Niro admitted he didn’t know for certain.

“All I know is people have to have to resist, resist, resist,” he mentioned. “There’s no easy way. It’s not going to come to you easy. You know, there’s a time when you know in your own life and your own survival, you better do this. You better jump and run through the fire because if you don’t run through the fire, you’re not getting out, and that’s what we have to do.”

De Niro has been an enormous critic of Trump through the years, and defined why in an interview final May.

“The man is a bully, and you can’t let bullies win. If a bully comes for your lunch money on Monday, he’s going to ask for more on Tuesday. You have to stand up. And I wouldn’t want to look at myself if I didn’t,” he informed The Guardian.