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| Robert De Niro at the 2018 Tony Awards |
In a new interview with The Guardian’s David Smith, two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro opens up about how the Trump administration’s divisive policies are worrisome for both him and his gay son.
“Yeah, I worry, and one of my kids is gay, and he worries about being treated a certain way,” says the 75-year-old actor. “We talk about it.”
De Niro, who has six mixed-race children, didn’t identify which of his four sons is gay.
In 2014, the actor debuted a new documentary, Remembering The Artist, on his father who was also gay.
De Niro says initially he took a ‘wait and see’ position on a Trump presidency.
“When you see someone like [Trump] becoming president, I thought, well, OK, let’s see what he does – maybe he’ll change,” admits De Niro. “But he just got worse. 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,” he added. “It’s a shame. It’s a bad thing in this country.”
Asked by Smith if he believes Trump is a white supremacist, De Niro reportedly didn’t pause to answer, “Yes.”
Is Trump a fascist? De Niro says, “I guess that’s what it leads to.”
“If he had his way, we’d wind up in a very bad state in this country,” he continued. “I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny, other dictators and despots look funny.”
Since the 2016 presidential election, De Niro has become an outspoken critic of Trump.
The Raging Bull star has called Trump a ‘scumbag’ and a ‘pig’ in the past.
And in June of 2018, during an appearance at the Tony Awards, De Niro received a standing ovation when he declared, “It’s no longer ‘Down with Trump,’ it’s ‘F*ck Trump.”
For an ever-growing list of anti-LGBTQ actions taken by the Trump administration, click here.
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