‘Patriotism sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abusers’: Robert De Niro leads a rally against Trump | Video

Robert De Niro has resumed his attack on Donald Trump at an event in New York on Sunday. Speaking at Rise Up, Sing Out: The First Amendment Concert, the actor led the crowd in repeated chants of “shut up!” in response to the current president’s various comments and policies.

De Niro said: “I’m about to become an outspoken person, even though I don’t like talking, and there’s a lot there.” So when I hear something I don’t like, I use my right to speak and respond.

“When I hear Trump say, as he did a few days ago‘I’m not thinking about the American economy, not one bit,’ I said, ‘Shut up,’” he said.

De Niro’s choice of voice evokes a famous scene in the 1988 comedy in which his character repeatedly comments on his secret private life with his partner Charles Grodin.

At the event on Sunday, De Niro gave another example of what he sees as good leadership, saying: “On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said, ‘I love inflation.'” Then he asked the crowd to “Be quiet! and he, what he did.

De Niro continued: “Trump said he won the 2020 election. Ready? Shut up!

The actor, who often meets with Mr Trump, also likened today’s patriotism to domestic violence.

“I hate to say it, but patriotism is starting to sound like an abused woman saying she loves her abusers,” she said.

He added: “I will not like a country that starts stupid and cruel wars, killing thousands of innocent people and causing death and suffering to millions of people.

“I would not like a country that takes away health care from millions and uses that money to enrich Trump-Epstein classmates.” I would not like a country that sends masked soldiers to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.

“I would not like a country that is led by a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic person.” Let me just say: “I cannot love a country that is led by that country.” Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress. “

He concluded by saying: “I also want to love my country.

Earlier this year, Trump hit back at the comedian’s description of the president as an “idiot”, telling Nicole Wallace on her podcast “We’ve got to get rid of him. He’s destroying the country.”

The president called the actor “disturbed”, “sick and insane” and “very low IQ”.