Jim Watkins | May 28, 2024
I defend Robert De Niro’s right to hate Donald Trump.
I defend one of the greatest American actors of all time, and his right to speak out against Trump if that is what he wants to spend his stardom on.
Isn’t America great?
What troubles me is that De Niro has unfortunately been duped into becoming a useful idiot for the Left.
I’m not sure where the New York actor sits about Biden, or Democrats in general, but while he is busy fuming about Trump being the source of all evil, his wonderful and once beautiful city is falling apart right before his eyes, and he has prioritized his mission in life going after a straw man, instead of using his gravitas to hold people accountable who have made New York a shithole.
Trump isn’t the problem. He never was.
The deep administrative State that is the federal government has metastasized into a growing cancer. Technology has provided an accelerant to an already massive power-grab that won’t stop until every U.S. citizens is made to confirm to a new social order.
Does De Niro blame Trump for the high crime in all major U.S. cities?
Does De Niro care at all about the porous U.S. border and the amount of human trafficking going on, or the massive shipment of drugs coming in headed toward cities big and small, causing tens of thousands of deaths every month?
Is De Niro really okay with entire countries being forced by law to take an experimental drug to “cure” a flu that was most likely created by the very people who are now selling you the vaccine?
Why is Robert De Niro more occupied with his hatred about a man, instead of being angry at the political leaders going after Trump and making him the bogeyman everyone is supposed to fear, when the very people making the charge are actually the ones who pose a real threat?
Robert De Niro got a lotta good breaks in life, due partly because of talent but also because he looks like the kind of tough-guy-hero we can all relate to, whether it’s with characters like Michael from The Deer Hunter, the cab driver crazy guy in Taxi, or the rising mob king Michael Corleone in The Godfather. No doubt his performed his roles well and made a lot of money in the process.
All the more reason I don’t understand why, on the issue of Trump, he has made this his Moby Dick.
Was he slighted? Did someone close to him get ripped off by Trump? Was Trump hurtful to De Niro, or has there always been animosity that almost makes it seem personal?
Some have said De Niro may be projecting an adult figure in his own life he hated who Trump reminds him of.
Who cares. It is personal for him, but this doesn’t give De Niro the privilege of telling other people how to vote or what to think. That’s where I call foul.
Express all you wish, but to tell people Trump is “a danger,” and is going to “destroy the world” is going to extremes. The people in charge now are the ones you should be barking about, not a billionaire mogul who hates how our current leadership is slowly destroying the United States from within, the greatest country on earth.
It would be better if one of my favorite actors of all time would join me and try to do something about child trafficking, malevolent corporations who keep people sick, or the endless wars that our country seems to sponsor at every turn in history, just to pad the pockets of big-donor stockholders within the military-industrial complex.
These issues could use the attention of Robert De Niro, and for that matter, every other ungodly-rich actor in Hollywood and New York, who sit in their sanctimonious chairs telling the rest of us who we should vote for, so they can enjoy the finer things of life at our expense; those who never have to worry about a meal, or a gig, or a child who goes to work at night and may never come home because of gangs and thugs who prey on the rest of us. But not you, Robert, with your fancy Manhattan apartment, looking down on us, the deplorables, who happen to disagree with you.
I think I liked De Niro best as Jack in Midnight Run. Now there was a guy you could depend on to do the right thing, even when the system punished him down for doing it, like Trump.
JIM WATKINS 