Angry De Niro shoots from the lip at Trump

ROBERT De Niro has called Donald Trump a ‘f ***** g fool’ in an impromptu foulmouthed rant at an awards ceremony.

De Niro went off script to attack the US president as he presented Meryl Streep, pictured with the Goodfellas actor, with a Best Actress award at the National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala in New York.

The Oscar-winner also branded Trump the ‘baby-in-chief’ and ‘jerk-off-in-chief’ while discussing Streep’s new film The Post, which is about the publication of the Pentagon Papers into the Vietnam War.

De Niro, 74, has long been a vocal critic of Trump, saying during the presidential campaign in 2016 that he would ‘like to punch him in the face.’

Since then he has used many public speaking opportunities to trash the president.

Accepting the award, Meryl, 68, made reference to the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns as well as the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham – who strides forward at a crucial moment in the maledominated 1970s newspaper industry to publish the Pentagon Papers in The Post.

‘And the time’s up, so let’s go girls,’ said Streep. ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.’

Along with De Niro and Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Gal Gadot and Stephen Colbert were all in attendance on Tuesday night.

The National Board of Review announced the winners last month, with The Post taking Best Picture, while Streep landed Best Actress and Tom Hanks claimed Best Actor for their roles in the film. Willem Dafoe was named Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, while Laurie Metcalf was Best Supporting Actress for Lady Bird.