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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Thu Mar 15, 2018, 07:57 AM Mar 2018

Robert De Niro tears into Trump over Ivy League education: He's still an idiot

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Robert De Niro tears into Trump over Ivy League education: He's ‘still an idiot’
By Avery Anapol - 03/15/18 07:11 AM EDT


Robert De Niro again tore into President Trump while speaking at a charity dinner in Los Angeles, calling him an "idiot" despite his Ivy League education.

“A college education is important, but education without humanity is ignorance,” De Niro said late Tuesday in remarks about the value of higher education, according to Variety.

“Look at our president," he added. "He made it through [the] University of Pennsylvania, so he was exposed to a quality education, but he’s still an idiot.”

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In his remarks for Fulfillment Fund, an L.A.-based higher education fund he co-founded, De Niro said that Trump “lacks any sense of humanity or compassion,” and said that he would continue to speak out against the president, Variety reported.

“As long as our country’s leadership is so appalling and so corrupt, I’ll be speaking out at every venue,” De Niro said. “To be silent in the face of such villainy is to be complicit, and it’s especially appropriate tonight because Trump treats education as a con, a way to make a profit at the expense of the suckers.

De Niro has been a harsh critic of Trump in the past. Earlier this year, he called Trump a “f---ing idiot” and a “f---ing fool,” laying into him for his treatment of the media.

“Our baby in chief — the jerkoff in chief, I call him — has put the press under siege, ridiculing it through trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies,” he said at the time.
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Robert De Niro tears into Trump over Ivy League education: He's still an idiot (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2018 OP
I always liked his work, but now I respect the man. dameatball Mar 2018 #1
So, do I. I didn't know De Niro had criticized Trump. Stuart G Mar 2018 #2
Oh yeah. He has been ripping him for a while now. dameatball Mar 2018 #3
Free clue to republicans who imagine they are acting like Americans Achilleaze Mar 2018 #4
Didn't Trump's father buy Donnie's way into Penn? NewJeffCT Mar 2018 #5
Great thoughts from De Niro - need more from others. BSdetect Mar 2018 #6

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. Free clue to republicans who imagine they are acting like Americans
Thu Mar 15, 2018, 09:53 AM
Mar 2018

Stop imagining that you are an American, and act like one. Dirty Donny is pissing all over America, and he needs to be stopped.

DeNiro: “To be silent in the face of such villainy is to be complicit..."

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
5. Didn't Trump's father buy Donnie's way into Penn?
Thu Mar 15, 2018, 09:55 AM
Mar 2018

and Donnie likely skated by with the 'Gentleman's C' because of daddy's donations

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