Overview
- During a 40-minute episode of MS NOW’s The Best People, De Niro accused President Trump of “destroying” the country, labeled him “sadistic” and “cruel,” and called him the “enemy of this country.”
- He became tearful while saying people must “lift” and “bring together” others, then urged listeners to “resist, resist, resist” to “save the country.”
- Host Nicolle Wallace told him, “You weren’t supposed to make me cry,” though multiple reports noted she did not appear to be crying on camera.
- Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones mocked the interview on Tuesday and questioned whether his tears were genuine.
- One outlet reported he also said “We gotta get rid of him,” a quote not widely corroborated, as coverage linked the remarks to his long-running anti-Trump activism.