The short answer is that De Niro has become one of the most colourful, pugnacious and unsubtle decriers of the Trump presidency. I didn’t realise how against him certain people were – racially against him, offended that he was there.”Would he call Trump a white supremacist? “The things that Trump has done; if Obama had done one fiftieth, they’d be all over him,” says De Niro. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m sorry – let’s call a spade a spade. “Rupert Murdoch became a citizen of this country; look what he’s contributed by this.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2019 14:01 UTC