Robert de Niro asks Americans to “save the country” by “resisting” Donald Trump

Robert De Niro bragged about being a “threat to autocrats and fascists” during the opening of the Cannes Film Festival in 2025. Monday February 23, at the microphone of the podcast The Best People, the American actor once again demonstrated his disenchantment with the American government against whom, according to him, the population should “resist, resist, resist, resist, resist, resist”. “Let’s not kid ourselves, everyone must pull together to chase him out and get the country back on track”then clarified the one who received an Oscar in 1975 for having immortalized the youth of Godfather.

Like Kristen Stewart, Joe Rogan, Rosie O’Donnell and Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro is one of the big voices in Hollywood who have been campaigning against the political decisions of the White House for the past year. Today, he does not hesitate to describe Donald Trump as“enemy of the country”. “We have to save the United States, because it’s unhealthy, it’s fucked uphe warns. And even if the president were to die for whatever reason, from illness or otherwise, he would be replaced. Some of that movement is still there, and that’s what’s scary. It must be neutralized by the people. »

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Militant anti-Trump

This is not the first time that Robert De Niro has publicly attacked Donald Trump. In Cannes, in May 2025, the actor denounced on stage the customs duties on foreign films that the American president wanted to impose, a measure which he said went against “freedom and democracy”.

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In October, he called on his fellow citizens to participate in the No Kings protests. “The first movements of this kind took place 250 years agohe recalled. Americans decided they no longer wanted to live under the rule of King George III. They declared their independence and waged a bloody war for democracy. Since then, we have experienced two and a half centuries of democracy. » And to add: “Today we have a pretender to the throne who wants to take it away from us: King Donald I^is. Fuck him. »