Columnist and author Mark Steyn chided Robert De Niro for being “a potty-mouthed grandpa” after the actor let loose expletives against President Trump in a Sunday interview on CNN.
“CNN, and this is fantastic — their booker negotiated for months to get Robert De Niro on the show and give us his insights into the Trump administration, and in the end he basically just treats them the way he treats his minimum wage domestic servants and yells at Brian Stelter exactly the way he did at that poor chauffeur,” Steyn said, referencing a clip Tucker Carlson showed of De Niro berating his limo driver.
De Niro made headlines in January 2018 when he declared “F— Trump” while introducing a performance on stage at the Tony Awards. “It’s no longer ‘down with Trump,'” De Niro said at the time. “It’s ‘f— Trump.”
Continuing his De Niro critique, Steyn said, “He’s actually become the kind of potty-mouthed grandpa he plays in those witless comedies he’s been doing in recent years,” presumably a reference to Dirty Grandpa, a 2016 film in which the storied actor starred alongside Zac Efron as a foul-mouthed old-timer.
Steyn also critiqued CNN for lobbying to have De Niro on as a guest in an effort to push for the end of the Trump presidency. “If your object is to remove Trump from office, then actually having De Niro on television just loosing a blizzard of F-words at half the population isn’t going to do it.”
