"Donald Trump is a mafia apprentice" | Robert D …

Robert De Niro returned to the fray by criticizing Donald Trump, calling him this time "gangster apprentice". In an interview with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the actor badyzed his character in L & # 39; Irish, Martin Scorsese's movie that will be released on Netflix in the second half of this year. "People like outlaw types, with the exception of the gangster apprentice we now have at the White House," said De Niro. "Even gangsters have a morality and a certain ethics, they have a code, and you know that when they give their word to someone, it has value, because that's all that's in it." They have, this guy does not even know what that means. "

When Colbert asked the actor why he had not given Trump a chance, De Niro replied that he had given it himself in the past, but he thought that the president of the United States "has long proved to be a loser". De Niro has a long history of public criticism of Trump, which has led the president to describe him as "an individual with a very low IQ" on his Twitter account. In an interview with the English newspaper The Guardian, the Oscar winner called Trump "racist" and made comparisons between him and Adolf Hitler. "If they left it, the country would be in a very, very good situation," he said. "I mean, in the past, they had the habit of laughing at Hitler, they all looked funny, Hitler looked funny, Mussolini had the air funny, a lot of dictators and d + espotas looked funny. "

Based on Charles Brandt's book I heard you paint houses, L & # 39; Irish This is a project that involves several complications for Scorsese. Heavyweight actors such as De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel tell the story of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a mafia killer allegedly involved in the disappearance of trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa. in July 1975. With a budget of 100 million dollars (especially for the investment in the special effects of Industrial Light and Magic to show young De Niro), it is the most film dear to the history of the Italian-American filmmaker.