“We are in a moment in our country where this guy is like a gangster,” De Niro told Selter when asked why he responds this way. “We say over and over again this is terrible. We are in a terrible situation and this guy keeps going on and on and on without being stopped.”
Asked if he thinks, as an actor himself, Trump may be acting or performing, De Niro said yes.
“In some ways, I think he is,” he answered, “as I think some of these pundits on Fox are too, because I can’t believe that they would actually buy into this craziness. This guy should not be president, period.”
After De Niro’s first Trump hit back by disparaging De Niro as “a very LOW IQ individual.”
De Niro has previously slammed Trump as a racist and a white supremacist.
When recently asked by TMZ how he’d feel about Vice President Mike Pence taking the reins if Trump were impeached, De Niro said he’d “deal with” Pence but isn’t holding his breath about an impeachment.