MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace showered Robert De Niro with partisan praise during yet another weepy interview about Donald Trump ‘destroying’ the United States.
‘I want my country back,’ the actor said at a point during the sit-down – before eventually breaking down into tears.
Wallace had asked: ‘You’re always about lifting up everybody around you everybody. Why is that?’
‘You have to- you have to lift people up’, The actor replied, his voice rife with emotion.
The melodramatic exchange amounted to the the A-lister’s most recent criticism of Trump, whom he framed as an enemy.
‘You have to bring them together,’ the actor said, now sniveling and overcome with emotion. ‘You can’t divide people. You can’t win that way.’
The Raging Bull star went on to call the country’s current state off affairs ‘a no-win situation’.
‘And look what we have, look who we have there, it’s almost like a destiny to have this this thing there, destroying- attempting to destroy this country and maybe not even understanding why.
‘I want my country back,’ the actor said at a point during a sit-down with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace – before eventually down into tears
The conversation on Monday’s edition of Wallace’s podcast – The Best People with Nicolle Wallace – largely revolved around Donald Trump. Wallace is seen reacting to De Niro’s tears here
‘So it’s up to us to protect the country,’ he concluded, becoming increasingly choked up.
‘That we love?’ Wallace interrupted. The journalist could be seen looking on at the actor adoringly, waiting with bated breath.
‘Yes,’ De Niro answered, visibly on the verge of tears.
Wallace acknowledged, ‘You weren’t supposed to make me cry’, although her face was bone dry with no sign of any tears or even emotion.
De Niro joined Wallace for her Monday edition of The Best People podcast, during which the two took aim at the president for the better part of an hour.
‘It’s time for us who’ve taken this country for granted to stand up and get rid of this guy. When you talk about the stakes of the election, it’s clear, it’s plain, the evidence is before our eyes,’ De Niro, 82, said at a point.
‘I do see what we’re up against, and it makes me so angry. I don’t see how we can ignore it,’ he continued. ‘There’s no easy way around this. It takes a determination and knowing that you have no choice but to go forward. If you don’t go forward, it’s over.’
Wallace ended the interview by asking De Niro whether he believed this was ‘the moment’ the US moves towards something ‘better’ –
‘I don’t know. All I know is people have to have to resist, resist, resist. There’s no easy way,’ De Niro said of how to deal with Trump
De Niro responded: ‘I don’t know. All I know is people have to have to resist, resist, resist. There’s no easy way.
‘It’s not going to come to you easy,’ he added.
‘You better jump and run through the fire because if you don’t run through the fire, you’re not getting out and that’s what we have to do.’
De Niro’s comments come months after the nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests against the administration late last year.
They also come not long after De Niro likened Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller to Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels on MS NOW’s The Weekend back in October.
He had been asked if he thinks Trump will graciously leave the White House when his term expires in 2028.
‘No way,’ he said. ‘We see it all the time – he will not want to leave,’ De Niro said.