” And everybody’s, “Haha, how I mean, how intellectually deprived he is. He’s not He’s a coke adult simpleton, you know, without a script. It is hysterical. Does he have to think coke problem? No, I just read that article that you sent me about the last nights of John Belushi and how De Niro was there and and just basically partied with him and then split.
And it’s just like that’s now Now I just think of him as a really stupid guy. >> When Robert De Niro gets fired up, he carries himself like he’s been personally appointed as humanity’s moral compass and political prophet. But lately, the only thing he’s truly mastered is screaming into a microphone like it’s an Olympic sport. This is the same man who once owned an entire room with nothing but silence and a single cold stare.
No volume, no notes, just sheer what? Terrifying presence. Now, to get through a single public statement, it seems like he needs three espresso shots, a full teleprompter, and a warm-up act. >> Well, Robert De Niro. Yeah. No, Kurt Kurt’s convinced that Robert De Niro’s on some kind of Epstein list or some kind of thing like that and then he’s afraid that when if Trump does get power, he’s going to expose him and he is actually going to come at him.
Does it Of course Kurt thinks that. >> Kurt thing, Zach. Kurt thinks that about every thing that happens in the world. I think that I think Robert De Niro’s just a got got Trump derangement syndrome. >> he’s old, too. There’s a thing about old men. And he’s comp They want to yell at everybody. And he’s completely Did you see when he went and gave that speech outside of the Trump That was bizarre.
>> that was a good idea? >> starts yelling at regular people. At this point, Robert De Niro is basically that uncle at Thanksgiving who permanently glues himself to the table and refuses to stop talking about politics except he also has unlimited access to late night television. He’s like your grandfather’s Facebook page just on with Oscars collecting dust on the shelf.
You’d think winning an Academy Award might eventually inspire a man to relax not De Niro. Instead of easing up he doubled down harder. Now it feels like he’s screaming into an empty room desperately waiting for applause just to confirm he’s still relevant. >> Robert De Niro, there’s something about being a star where you think your opinion’s more important than anybody else’s and you can go give a press conference and he obviously has been very vocal from 2016 that he hates Trump for whatever reason.
Maybe they have some personal thing. >> Yeah. You think Trump ever threw a punch himself or took one? This guy who ran and hid in the White House bunker when there were protesters outside? No way. Now he’s like holding press conferences. Now everyone’s heckling him everywhere he goes. >> bad. >> Like you instead of just being this cranky old liberal, now you’re this guy that is yelling at other people that are Trump supporters and they’re yelling at you.
Like you’ve opened yourself up to this nonsense. Why? Between wild conspiracy deep dives and elk meat recipes, Joe Rogan who was already primed to poke holes in anyone’s inflated ego simply could not let this one go and honestly, um can you blame him? When Robert De Niro practically gift wraps himself marinated in smugness slowly rotating over the open flame of his own fading relevance.
What do you expect to happen when a man once celebrated for quiet terrifying intensity suddenly becomes the loudest most unhinged voice in every room. That’s not growth. That’s a public cry for attention. Rogan didn’t even need a lengthy rant. Odd, half the punchline was simply the baffled expression on his face while listening to De Niro attempt to sound gravely serious about anything that happened after 1999.
That reaction alone could generate weeks of material. Then there’s Greg, and whose entire brand runs on razor-sharp sarcasm and perfectly timed precision. De Niro essentially served himself up like an all-you-can-eat buffet of cringeworthy moments. And Greg, he grabbed the biggest plate available. I’m It’s like watching someone proudly wear their own meme on a custom t-shirt.
After De Niro’s latest very public spiral, you could practically hear Greg thinking, “Hollywood’s grumpiest export just clocked in for another shift.” These days De Niro carries himself like he’s actively campaigning for the title of America’s most self-important man, but nobody’s hiring for that position. The only real response he’s getting, the deafening sound of collective eye rolling.
>> that’s starting to affect Hollywood a little bit to where now if you look at the most successful people, it is the realest people. You know, people might not even like say a Donald Trump, but people are gravitated cuz they think, “Hey man, this is him. This is real.” Uh I think the best thing for people in Hollywood that are entrenched in that world is to shut the up.
Because as soon as they start talking, people like this is Robert De Niro starts talking, I’m like, “Jesus, get that microphone away from him so I can enjoy Taxi Driver.” Yeah, it’s heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking. Yeah, I don’t want to hear I love De Niro. I love those mob movies. It’s like >> want to hear him that he’s a I don’t want to hear him talking about politics and about Trump supporters.
And just shut the up, man. Like you didn’t think this through. Like this is And he’s getting yelled at. He’s doing an outside press conference. Like Robert, you’re 80 years old. Don’t ruin this Which, now let’s get to the real punchline. De Niro’s dramatic plunge into politics. Because clearly, what the world was desperately missing was yet another multi-millionaire delivering passionate lectures about tyranny while standing in front of a velvet curtain.
He’ll post about climate change from a smartphone assembled overseas, then slide into a chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle headed toward his next exclusive getaway. And somehow that’s being presented to us as courage. Bravo. I nothing screams revolutionary quite like sipping a $500 bottle of wine while scolding the middle class for not being enlightened enough.
And if you think that’s peak irony, uh brace yourself. This is the same actor who once dissolved so completely into his roles that audiences forgot he was even acting. Now he just plays himself, louder, angrier, desperately fighting to hold a coherent thought together on live television. At this point, he he’s clinging to relevance like it’s the last cannoli at a mob wedding.
If there were an Oscar for least self-aware use of a public platform, he’d win it 10 times consecutively and still find a way to thank Martin Scorsese in the acceptance speech. This is what moms call bad language or what producers call great TV. The plan getting an irrational figure at peak derangement and goad him into snapping.
It’s like cabaret for the chronically obsessed. It’s like when you were a kid and would pull wheelies on old man Johnson’s front yard. Finally he just cracks, he’s holding a spatula, chasing you around in his open robe. That’s the De Niro >> >> CNN business model in a nutshell. Money for nothing and clicks for free. Of course, the real story is how accusations of Trump’s nutty behavior always ends up with the accusers acting nuttier.
De Niro calls Trump crazy as he goes crazier. >> The real tragedy. He’s beginning to look like a full parody of his own iconic characters. Every time he opens his mouth now, it feels like a method actor doing improv with no script, no director, ah and absolutely no idea where any of it is heading. You half expect him to suddenly start shouting about something completely unrelated and switch accents mid-rant.
In record time, he went from projecting feared mob boss energy to being that loud, overbearing guy at a wine tasting who corners you and won’t stop arguing about nothing. And here’s the brutal truth. Greg and Rogan didn’t even need to twist the knife. De Niro was already doing the damage himself. And they simply pointed at the cracks and let the audience connect every single dot.
