Robert De Niro tried to bash former President Donald Trump during the Cannes Film Festival news conference but ended up humiliating himself instead.
De Niro’s latest movie is the Martin Scorsese-directed “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” Other actors in the movie include Leonardo DiCaprio, Ernest Burkhart, William Hale, Lily Gladstone, Mollie Burkhart, and Jesse Plemons. The movie is about a series of murders in Oklahoma.
De Niro got clever with his first attempt to bash Trump. The smug star took his swipe and was so proud of himself that he bragged about refusing to say Trump’s name. But within minutes he embarrassed himself and reversed course and got called out by Scorcese.
“I don’t understand a lot about my character,” said De Niro.
“Part of him is sincere.
“The other part, where he’s betraying, there’s a feeling of entitlement.
“It’s the banality of evil.
“It’s the thing we have to watch out for.
“And we see it today,