Robert De Niro has said he hopes the investigation into Donald Trump’s communications with the Ukranian president results in his impeachment.
The actor said: “I hope he gets impeached, it has to be followed through. He’s such a low life. He taints everybody around him.”
“It’s disgraceful with this guy,” De Niro continued. “He has no centre, no ethics, no morals. He’s amoral, immoral.”
De Niro has long been vocal about his dislike of Trump. In January, he said that he firmly believes the US president is a white supremacist and compared him to Hitler and Mussolini.
In April, during an appearance on a US talk show, De Niro referred to Trump as a “dumbbell”.
“People like the outlaw type thing except we have a wannabe gangster in the White House now,” he added. “Even gangsters have morals and they have ethics. They have a code and you know when you give somebody your word it’s your word because it’s all you have is your word. This guy he doesn’t even know what that means.”
In 2018, after De Niro criticised him at the Tony Awards, Trump took to Twitter to call the actor “a very low IQ individual”, before suggesting that he had “received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies”.
He added: “I truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk’. I guess he doesn’t realise the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!”
De Niro made his latest comments while appearing at the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which sees him de-aged via CGI for extensive flashback sequences.
The Irishman will be released in selected UK cinemas on 8 November, before arriving on Netflix from 27 November.
