This week’s Liberal Media Scream features movie crime kingpin Robert De Niro accusing President Trump of being a “wannabe gangster.”
It came on Friday’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
He’s a “D.D.,” the “Godfather” and “Goodfellas” actor snarked to Colbert. “A disappointed dunsky. That’s what he is. He’s a dumbbell, in other words.”
De Niro’s latest attack on Trump came after Colbert brought up how De Niro is making another gangster movie, “The Irishman,” with Martin Scorsese, who directed “Goodfellas.”
STEPHEN COLBERT: Why do you think people respond to the gangster genre so much? Why is it? Why is that a classic genre?
ROBERT De NIRO: I don’t know. It’s just people like the outlaw-type thing, except we have a wannabe gangster in the White House now.
COLBERT: Yeah. He does, he acts, he tries to act like a tough guy. Tries to act like a made man.
De NIRO: Like a made guy. You call it a certain, you’d say disappointed dunsky. And a dunsky is a way of calling a don, sort of a contracted way of don. A D.D. you’d call him — a disappointed dunsky. That’s what he is. He’s a dumbbell, in other words.
COLBERT: It’s no secret — it’s no secret you’re not a fan. It’s no secret you’re not a fan.
De NIRO: There are certain, there are certain — you know, even gangsters have morals and they have, they have ethics. They have a code. They have a code. And, you know, when you give somebody your word, it’s your word, because that’s all you have is your word, especially in that world. This guy, he doesn’t even know what that means.
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Just what America needs, a guy who pretends to be other people smugly denouncing a political leader he disdains for acting like a tough guy. As if De Niro brings some kind of persuasive wisdom to the topic when the best he could do a few years ago was use a national TV stage to hurl crude vulgarities at Trump.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
