Actor Robert De Niro is playing his sad trombone tunes again. De Niro is frustrated that Trump is running for president and retains the level of support he does among Republican voters.

De Niro spoke to The Guardian because he doesn’t see anything wrong with slamming another American to a foreign media outlet if that person is a Republican. Remember, Democrats are guilty of all the bad behavior they accuse Trump and Republicans of. De Niro is 80 years old now and still heavily infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. The actor had a history of steering clear of interviews and was often thought to be inarticulate, but that changed when Trump won the presidency in 2016.

De Niro is an election denier when it comes to the 2016 presidential election. “She won.”

“It upsets me so much that somebody like him could get so far in our political system. Many New Yorkers were on to what a fool he is, a joke. But when the country started buying it? I mean, he didn’t win by much. He didn’t win the popular vote. She won. But look what happened. What’s scary is it’s such a fragile thing, to swing like that. And the odd thing about Trump is that if he had any brains he could have become president again. But he doesn’t care. He did stupid things. He’s not somebody who should ever be allowed close to leadership in this country again.”

Democrats hate the Electoral College. They want coastal elites and major blue cities to decide presidential elections. The rest of us honor our constitutional republic and respect the fact that all states deserve representation in a national election. Small states and rural states are just as important as large blue states.

De Niro is promoting a new movie, of course, so it’s time for him to makes some headlines that aren’t focused on his movie but on his hatred of Trump.

De Niro was speaking on the advent of his forthcoming movie Killers of the Flower Moon, his 10th collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, and likened his character William Hale to that of the former US president:

“One of the main tasks of being a leader, the responsibility, is to lead. Even when the masses are turning in a certain the direction, you have to show them the right way. And that comes down to personal integrity, what you know is right and what you know to be wrong, what you stand for.”

He said Trump is “doing whatever he can to be the boss. He just wants to be in charge. He has no moral centre.”

De Niro sounds like he prefers authoritarian rule – never mind what the people want. How progressive of him. He said “We’ve lost control.” Who is “we?” Democrats have control of the White House and the Senate. Republicans only have the House and it is a very slim majority. Democrats are in control.

He compared Trump to an abusive parent.

This is the De Niro I meet on Zoom, one afternoon a few months ago. Outspoken De Niro. Politically frustrated De Niro. He is bethroned in a hotel suite in Cannes, grey-haired and lined of face, present as an irked but not unpleasant grandpa. (He recently turned 80.) It is shortly before the actors’ strike and long before Trump’s appearance at a New York courthouse on charges of fraud. “I’m going to go into this,” De Niro says. “The political situation we’re in in my country, it is crazy and absurd – we lost control. I see the phenomenon of Trump, the phenomenon of people not standing up to him, people who ought to know better… They’re causing great concern in the country and a lot of anxiety. I feel like since he’s come on the scene – even after being president – it’s like when an abusive parent rules a household, only it’s not just one household it’s the whole country. We’re like, ‘What’s this guy going to do next? What’s he going to aggravate us about?’” The actor shrugs. “Is he just doing this to aggravate people? To make people unhappy? Maybe he is.”

The reporter said that they were supposed to be talking about the new movie but De Niro kept talking about Trump. He even did so at a press conference for the movie. The character he plays apparently is an entitled, greedy racist so De Niro works in Trump and Republicans, in general.

At a press conference earlier in the day, De Niro had suggested that Hale’s kind of immorality – his entitlement and greed, his racism, his disregard for anyone outside his own bloodline, all of it wrapped up in a kindly aspect – is easy to spot in contemporary politics, in what was a not-so-veiled swing at Trump and a broader swipe at members of the Republican party, accessories to the chaos.

What a maroon. Wait until he hears about the Biden crime family or realizes what next-level grifters the Clintons are. Good Lord. Take a seat, Robert De Niro.