Hollywood Legend Robert De Niro Delivers His Most Savage Anti-Trump Speech in New York City

[0:00] when i hear trump say as he did a few days ago i don't think about americans financial situation [0:06] not even a little bit i say shut the up good evening everyone and welcome to to all of you [0:23] who couldn't get tickets to the white house cage fights i'm devoted to our constitution's first [0:37] amendment all parts of it not just the free speech part that said i'm pretty close to being a free [0:46] speech absolutist even speech i don't like and there's plenty of that around so when i hear [0:55] something i don't like i use my own free speech to respond let me give you an example when i hear [1:05] trump say as he did a few days ago i don't think about americans financial situation not even a [1:12] little bit i say shut the up on wednesday trump said i love the inflation now say it with me shut the [1:42] fuck up trump said he won the 2020 election ready shut the fuck up try this at home [1:57] your young kids will especially enjoy it last september along with many of us on stage [2:04] tonight and many of you in the audience i signed an aclu letter protesting jimmy kimmel being taken [2:09] off the air the letter began we the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of [2:19] speech well of course you're with me right later the latest later the letter stated regardless of our [2:34] political affiliation or whether we engage in politics or not we all love our country still with [2:42] me not so fast the phrase we all love our country stuck in my throat because our country [2:52] isn't so lovable right now i hate to say it but loving our country is starting to sound like an [2:58] abused spouse saying they love their abuser i can't love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars [3:15] killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more [3:23] i can't love a country that takes health care away from millions of people and uses [3:30] that money to enrich their pals in the trump epstein class i can't love a country that sends out [3:39] mass militias to shoot citizens in the streets torture our neighbors and separate families [3:47] i can't love a country that's led by a racist misogynist xenophobic tyrant and let me let me just [4:00] say it i can't love the country that's led by donald trump and a sycophant congress for most for most of my [4:17] life of course i did love this country the united states of america welcomed my immigrant ancestors it gave me [4:24] my family and my fellow citizens such rich opportunities and extraordinary freedoms [4:31] i want to love my country again i want my country back that's why i stand with the committee for the [4:53] first amendment and and you all of you together we rise up we sing out we keep organizing and we fall in [5:02] love again thank you hi everybody wowie zowie what a night um what a weekend right last night now this [5:19] i mean come on um i don't i don't know about anybody else but i um last night much as my spirit wanted [5:27] to be celebrating in the streets my body wanted to be celebrating on its couch and that's what i did [5:33] uh which is my american right but while i was doing that i was looking at all of these photographs [5:40] and videos of people celebrating in the street and i came across a turn of phrase that i had never heard [5:45] before which is collective effervescence and right and that is what we are engaging in tonight so i want [5:53] to thank all of you for being here angela davis said that it is in collectivities that we find reservoirs [6:07] of hope and optimism when george floyd was murdered in minnesota for being the wrong color at the wrong [6:16] time i took to the streets of los angeles where i live and i linked arms with thousands of mourners [6:28] in the streets sharing in our collective grief and our outrage and our commitment to make his legacy [6:36] a revolution six years later minnesota was a battleground again after ice murdered alex pretty [6:44] and renee nicole good and again i was filled with despair and rage but what was most heartbreaking and [6:55] most enraging at the time about the murders was how unsurprising they were to me as a black american [7:04] there is a kind of bone tired exhaustion in fighting the battles that we have fought so many times [7:11] before in insisting time and time again generation after generation that people have the right to exist [7:19] even if they speak out against the state but what happened in minneapolis in the aftermath underscored [7:26] dr davis's words so profoundly when ice made the streets unsafe and when the national guard [7:34] storm trooped in neighbors became comrades mom's texts turned into crisis response hotlines [7:42] schools became safe zones the people had the power to protect one another and the people refused to let [7:59] renee good and alex pretty's murders intimidate them into inaction the collective became the hope [8:08] the community care is why my reservoir of optimism has not yet run dry i felt it then and i feel it now [8:18] in this room together tonight so it's our job even and especially in the face of despair to keep [8:31] that hope alive so thank you so much for being here tonight