"They’re Stupider Than I Ever Thought": Robert De Niro Just Obliterated One Of Trump's On-Again-Off-Again Allies

“Elon Musk spent astir $300 cardinal dollars getting Trump elected successful 2024,” De Niro told a tiny gathering astatine the Crosby Hotel successful Manhattan, per the showbiz outlet. “And helium conscionable spent adjacent to fractional a cardinal connected Republicans successful this past week’s election. How did that crook retired for you?”

Cheers and laughs erupted astatine the intimate showing of “Musk,” but De Niro had a much superior message.

“In the combat betwixt Musk’s wealth and democracy, ideology won. This time. But conscionable similar his grotesque Cybertruck, Musk isn’t going anywhere,” helium reportedly said, referring to Musk’s announcement that the conveyance would halt production.

“It’s a reminder that portion we are celebrating the monolithic electoral repudiation of Trump and Trumpism, we person to beryllium vigilant — and not conscionable vigilant, we person to beryllium acceptable to instrumentality action. This is an important film, I anticipation you volition beryllium arsenic moved arsenic I was by it and dispersed the word.”

In conscionable a fewer months betwixt July and aboriginal October, Musk reportedly donated $276 million to Republicans to effort to support a GOP bulk successful the House and Senate. That fig reportedly grew to $500 million. Both chambers fell to the Democrats successful the “bluenami.”

De Niro, who won Oscars for The Godfather Part II and Raging Bull, has been a dependable personage thorn successful the broadside of Trump and his orbit. He remained a starring antheral connected that beforehand during the midterm cycle, which culminated successful a rejection of the president, who had asked voters to take arsenic if helium were connected the ballot.

In a video that appeared successful precocious October, De Niro told voters, “If you privation to elite politicians to prop up a would-be king who gets america into a disastrous warfare and corruptly profits from it, you tin find him. Or if you similar candidates who won’t chopped your healthcare and won’t support pedophiles, determination are large choices there, too. You get to decide.”

Earlier that period astatine an anti-Trump gathering, he said, “The Trump medication knows that their policies are not lone brainsick and cruel, they’re progressively unpopular. They tin spot it. They’re not stupid. Well, OK. They are precise fucking stupid. I mean, truly stupid. They’re stupider than I ever thought.”

Alex Gibney’s “Musk” documentary heavy criticized Musk’s reign arsenic DOGE main nether Trump, during which hundreds of thousands of national employees mislaid their jobs.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost.