Screen icon Robert DeNiro has called US President Donald Trump a “real racist” and a “white supremacist”.It is a known fact that the two do not see eye-to-eye and the veteran actor, in a no-holds barred interview with The Guardian said there was a time he was willing to take a chance on the POTUS.
“I’m older now and I’m just upset about what’s going on. When you see someone like becoming president, I thought, well, OK, let’s see what he does maybe he’ll change. But he just got worse. If he considers the US president a “fascist”, the Hollywood veteran said he believes it follows with the white supremacy.
“If he had his way, we’d wind up in a very bad state in this country. I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and other dictators and despots look funny,” he said.
“It showed me that he is a real racist. I thought maybe as a New Yorker he understands the diversity in the city but he’s as bad as I thought he was before and much worse. It’s a shame. It’s a bad thing in this country,” DeNiro said.DeNiro added what bothers him more is that future generations would look up to Trump as an example and try to emulate him.
They’ll be affected in some way, but they’ll be a lot smarter and have many more colours to their personality and be more mercurial and become someone with the same values as he has but able to get much further and do more damage as a despot. That’s my worry.
