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Mon 11 Jun 2018
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Robert De Niro wins ovation for 'Fuck Trump' speech at the Tony awards
Introducing a performance by Bruce Springsteen, the actor twice denounces the president, but his words are bleeped out for TV audiences.
The actor Robert De Niro won a standing ovation at Sunday nights Tony awards in New York for attacking the president. Appearing on stage at New Yorks Radio City Music Hall, De Niro declared: Im gonna say one thing. Fuck Trump.
As the applauding audience rose to their feet, De Niro continued: Its no longer down with Trump. Its fuck Trump. He then continued with an apparently prepared introduction of Bruce Springsteen.
Although the show was broadcast as-live, CBS had time to bleep out the f-word for TV audiences, thought to number around six million.
De Niro has long been a vociferous critic of Donald Trump. After calling him totally nuts in August 2016, the actor released a video during the election campaign stating his desire to punch Trump in the face, and calling him an idiot, a national disaster, an embarrassment to this country
this fool, this bozo.
However, Trumps tenure does not appear to have impressed De Niro. In May 2017, he criticised the presidents immigration policy at a Lincoln Center gala, and just over a year ago, he hit out again in a speech at Brown University, calling America under the current administration a tragic, dumbass comedy and urging students to work for the change. Work to stop the insanity.
Last month, it was reported that De Niro had banned the president from his Nobu chain of restaurants. However, this was later denied by a representative for the actor and disputed by co-owner Nobuyuki Nobu Matsuhisa, who said: Its my dream for Trump to sit next to Bob. To make them sushi!
Musical The Bands Visit was the major winner at the Tonys, picking up 10 awards. The Broadway transfer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child took seven awards, including best play, while Glenda Jackson won best actress in a play for her role in Three Tall Women and Andrew Garfield was named best actor in a play for his role in Angels in America.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Somehow, it just does not compute...
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Trump likes everything well done. Steaks, fish, chicken, have to be hard as hockey pucks.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Said specifically about Trump's steak.
malaise
(269,067 posts)Oh Yes! Bravo De Niro!
brush
(53,794 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)bdamomma
(63,883 posts)got to love DeNiro. to tell the truth.
oasis
(49,393 posts)finish her term.