Trump makes ‘mobsters look bad’
Robert De Niro will never play Donald Trump on screen because he can’t sympathize with the controversial U.S. president. De Niro’s longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese has been teased as a possible director for a biopic of the businessman turned rightwing politician by many.
But De Niro, who is one of the Republican leader’s most prominent critics, branding him a racist and a “madman,” says he’s not interested in teaming up with anyone for a Trump biopic. “I don’t want to play him ever,” the 75-year-old De Niro tells The Guardian. “I always find the character’s point of view and I can of course find his, but I have so little sympathy for him, for what he’s done, the responsibility he’s been given and just thrown away. He doesn’t care.”
Many of De Niro’s most famous roles came playing mobsters or psychopaths in Scorsese’s films, including Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver.
The Hollywood veteran claims Trump is worse than the mobsters he has played on screen — as they at least had redeeming features like manners and a sense of honour.
“I mean, a mob boss calls people ‘a rat,’ ” he said, referring to comments Trump made about his disgraced ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. “That means you lied and somebody snitched on you, so you did commit the crime. So that’s interesting and he makes mobsters look bad because there are mobsters who will shake your hand and keep their word. He can’t even do that.”