Robert De Niro has had a distinguished, iconic career in Hollywood, starring in such landmark films as ‘The Mission’, ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Goodfellas’, and of course ‘Taxi Driver’. This has brought him fame and fortune; as he himself might say, ‘very nice, very nice’.
Unfortunately, De Niro has of late succumbed to what is known as ‘Hollywood Celebrity Syndrome’, a pernicious delusional condition which leads actors to believe that their celebrity status entitles them, indeed requires them, to harangue the rest of us with their world view. So from their profound knowledge of social and political issues, the likes of De Niro, Meryl Streep and Sean Penn want to instruct us as to how we should think and act on a range of matters such as gender issues, world poverty and climate change. This delusion exhibits itself through persistent outbreaks of self-indulgent moralising and virtue signalling from the remote heights of their ivory towers.
Sadly for him, De Niro has gone on to develop the full-blown, particularly virulent strain of HCS which experts have labelled ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’, to wit; an extreme, irrational reaction to Donald Trump based on distress and loathing, leading to fears that the sufferer may lose touch with reality.
Since the election of Trump to The White House, De Niro has launched a series of increasingly rancorous attacks on the President. These include such comments as ‘he’s blatantly stupid, totally nuts’, ‘he’s a dirty player’, ‘he’s a punk, a pig, a mutt, a national disaster’, ‘I’d like to punch him in the face’, and ‘I’d like to see him hit by a bag of shit… right in the face’. Even when accepting a lifetime achievement award at the recent Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, De Niro couldn’t resist politicising the occasion to take a swipe at Trump, accusing him of ‘blatant misuse of power’.
You talkin’ to me? Well, here’s the thing, Bobby old son. You say that you’re entitled to your opinions on Trump, and of course that’s true. But you shouldn’t presume that just because you’re a famous actor, the rest of us want you to foist them upon us repeatedly, especially when they appear to consist of a string of vitriolic personal insults rather than anything substantive.
Now you can go on all you want about Trump being ‘a fake President, someone who shouldn’t be President, period’, but I think you’ll find if you look closely that actually, he really IS the President, and that’s not going to change for a while. So please, enough already. Get off your soapbox and stop the finger-wagging, before you bore us all to death. You’re in danger of becoming regarded as a twisted, bitter old man, with a touch of paranoia thrown in. Bloody hell, you’ll be wanting a no Trump ‘safe space’ on set next.
Just be quiet and stick to the day job. For us, that really would be ‘very nice, very nice’. Capeesh?
Nominated by Ron Knee



