DE NIRO CAN’T BE ‘DON’IED

Reads ‘edited’ bile

Robert De Niro appeared flustered Monday night after realizing his speech at the Gotham Awards had been edited — to cut blistering remarks he wrote about former President Donald Trump. “I’m going to go back. I’m sorry. OK, there was a mistake in this. I’ll keep going. Just keep scrolling,” De Niro, 80, said while introducing the Gotham Historical Icon and Creator Tribute award on behalf of his new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

“I just want to say one thing,” the actor continued. “The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out and I didn’t know about it. And I want to read it.” Then, pulling up the speech on his phone, he continued: “History isn’t history anymore. Truth is not truth. Even facts are being replaced by alternative facts, and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness.” De Niro (inset), who has been an outspoken critic of the Republican Party and Trump, said that in Florida, “young students are taught that slaves developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit.”

The Oscar-winning actor also took aim at the film industry, claiming that it wasn’t immune “to this festering disease.”

“The Duke, John Wayne, famously said of Native Americans, ‘I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves,’” De Niro continued in his speech.

It was then that “The Goodfellas” star took aim at Trump.

“Lying has become just another tool in the charlatan’s arsenal. The former president lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office,” he said. “And he’s keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution. But with all his lies, he can’t hide his soul.

“He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature and shows disrespect, for example, by using ‘Pocahontas’ as a slur,” De Niro continued. “Filmmakers, on the other hand, strive — this is where I came in and I saw that they edited all that.”

According to De Niro, the speech was supposed to pick up with him thanking Gotham and Apple, which helped distribute the film. However, he said he didn’t “feel like thanking them at all for what they did.”

“How dare they do that, actually,” he concluded.

The Post reached out to Apple and

De Niro for further comment.

In 2019, De Niro said that he wanted to throw feces at

Trump.