One of the greatest actors of our time, Robert De Niro, minced no words today when he revealed the top entry on his Christmas wish list — a large sack of poo.
De Niro’s grievances with Trump aren’t particularly unique and generally hinge on the president being a pathologically self-absorbed abusive blowhard, but the actor definitely put some thought into how to knock his fellow New Yorker down a few pegs.
“I’d like to see a bag of shit right in his face—hit him right in the face like that and let the picture go all over the world. And that would be the most humiliating thing because he needs to be humiliated,” De Niro said. “He needs to be confronted and humiliated by whoever his opponent is, his political opponent. They have to stand up to him. They don’t have to do it in an obvious physical way, but they have to have the formidability to confront him and to put him in his place, because the people have to see that, to see him be humiliated.”
You could argue that the world got to see Trump humiliated when he left the G7 summit early after hot mic video of fellow world leaders making fun of his insane press sprays went viral, but point taken. That scenario just doesn’t have the same lasting, visceral impact as a photo of the president’s face smeared with manure.
During the conversation, De Niro took great care not to slander swine while airing his grievances against the president.
“I always say ‘low life’ because he’s a low life. He’s not a pig,” De Niro insisted. “I used to call him a pig, but pigs have dignity. He has no dignity, no nothing. He’s a disgrace to the human race, if you will. I don’t want to call them names. I just want to get us out of this situation. We all know what he is. It’s just getting past that.”
Additionally, the longtime actor had words for the Republican lawmakers who have continued to support Trump during the impeachment process.
“For the Republicans who have fallen in line with him … I don’t understand that,” he told Moore. “It’s a disgrace. It’s beyond a disgrace. Shame on them. Shame on all of them.”
Continuing, De Niro said “these people like [Sen.] Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.] and this [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy [R-Calif.] and these other ones, and [acting White House cheif of staff Mick] Mulvaney who said all these things about his children and not someone like Trump … doing such a turnaround. What is that? I don’t understand that. That’s frightening.”