Robert De Niro faces off with Donald Trump supporters; calls former US president a ‘clown’

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro faced off with Donald Trump supporters on May 28 after calling the former US president a ‘clown’ who wants to ‘destroy the world’ outside Trump's hush money trial in New York.

The incident occurred while Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone accompanied De Niro as special guests of Joe Biden's campaign.

De Niro said, ‘I love this city. I don't want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country and, eventually, he could destroy the world’.

This seemed to not have gone down well with Trump's supporters present there. A group of people was heard yelling at the actor, ‘your movies suck!’

However, that did not deter De Niro from further criticising Trump.

‘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. A clown’, De Niro said about Trump.

‘But this city is pretty accommodating. We make room for clowns’, the actor's tirade continued. ‘But not a person like Trump, who will eventually run a country that does not work, and we all know that’, he said.

The 'Raging Bull' actor accused Trump of buying votes with 'outrageous lies' and 'empty promises'. De Niro stated that Trump's incitement of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack motivated him to voice a new Biden-Harris campaign ad. He also suggested that Trump might use the US military to suppress future protests against him.

De Niro expressed concern that if Trump were to serve another term, elections in the US would become a thing of the past. He insisted that Trump would refuse to leave office if re-elected. De Niro emphasized the importance of voting for Joe Biden, stating it was the only way to preserve freedoms and humanity.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's spokesperson Jason Miller criticized the actor and Biden's campaign, stating, ‘The best they can do is roll out a washed-up actor.’

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