Legendary actor Robert De Niro feels that the United States, “once an inspiring uplifting drama,” is now just a “tragic dumbass comedy.”
The Oscar-winning actor told the Brown University students during a commencement speech on Sunday, that they should strive to make the world a better place. He urged the students to “work to stop the insanity.”
“When you started school, the country was an inspiring, uplifting drama. You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy,” he said in an apparent reference to Trump. “My advice is to lock the Van Wickle Gates and stay here,” he added in a reference to the university’s entrance.
“But if you do leave, work for the change,” De Niro said. “Work to stop the insanity. Start now so the Class of 2018 will graduate into a better world.”
Likening the political climate to a “tragic, dumbass comedy” honorary degree recipient Robert De Niro exhorts grads to “work for the change” pic.twitter.com/MSCjwG4v4U
— Brown University (@BrownUniversity) May 29, 2017
De Niro has been a vocal critic of President Trump and his administration’s “mean-spirited” attitude toward art, humanities and immigration policies. “For their own divisive political purposes, the administration suggests that the money for these all-inclusive programs goes to rich liberal elites,'” De Niro said in a May 8 acceptance speech when he received the Chaplin Award from The Film Society of Lincoln Center. “This is what they now call an ‘alternative fact,’ but I call it bullshit.”
The actor told the “Today” show in January, “I think that whatever people do they should do it fully because there’s a lot of crazy stuff happening now — it’s just crazy.” He continued, “And maybe it’s an act and we’ll see once [Trump’s] in, but you know, everybody has to be on guard.”
In the past, De Niro has also called Trump a “punk,” “pig,” “con,” “bozo” and an “embarrassment to this country.”
