Following this weekend’s No Kings protests, Robert De Niro is continuing to hold Donald Trump‘s feet to the fire and drive home the messages of the nationwide demonstrations.
The 2x Oscar winner, who helped mobilize ahead of Saturday’s protests, went on to warn fellow Americans that “we have to keep fighting” as the president continues to deploy the National Guard to major cities under the guise of keeping peace, ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
“I’m very happy to see that because we need much more of it going forward,” he said of the protests on MSNBC’s The Weekend. “Because that’s the only thing that the politicians are going to recognize, they either face the wrath of Trump or the wrath of the people. And they have to be more afraid of the wrath of the people and realize, ‘This is not good. I better strap on my balls and do something about it.’”
De Niro added, “We can’t let up. We cannot let up on them, because he is not gonna leave the White House. He does not wanna leave the White House, he will not leave the White House. Anybody who thinks [he will] is just deluding themselves, they Republicans most of all, because they know. But they’re going along with it. It’s a classic bully situation. We see it, and there’s no other way to face a bully. You have to face him and fight it out, and back him off, and back him down. That’s the only way this is going to work.”
After Trump deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon, in addition to boots on the ground in Chicago and other major cities, De Niro warned that the military presence is “gonna wear on people” until they don’t have “the freedom to walk into the polling station and vote without being intimidated.”
“We have to have a defense against that, an oppositional offense,” he said. “We have to be strong to counter that situation when it comes, because you know that’s what he’s trying. It’s better to neutralize it now than to worry about it later.”
De Niro added that when Trump’s term is ultimately up, the Supreme Court will “find a way to go after him for what he’s done, all the awful, monstrous things that he’s done. He’s not gonna wanna leave. Why should he?”
The Killers of the Flower Moon star previously appeared in a video for Indivisible to help mobilize for Saturday’s No Kings protest, which the grassroots organization said attracted a turnout of more than 7 million people across all 50 states.
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