Anti-Trump Host Claims She’s In Tears After De Niro Rant — You Be The Judge

Actor Robert De Niro was so sincere in his hatred for President Donald Trump that he apparently brought MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace to tears — and choked up a little himself — during a recent interview.

De Niro was speaking with Wallace for an episode of her podcast, “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace,” and he reduced himself to tears as he first claimed that he was always going to be about “lifting people up” and then almost immediately complained about “this thing” currently running the country.

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“You’re always about lifting up everybody,” Wallace said. “Everybody around you. Why is that?”

“Of course!” De Niro said, visibly affected by the question.

After a brief pause, he pushed ahead, still working to keep his composure: “You have to. You have to lift people up. You have to bring them together. Period. You can’t divide people. You can’t win that way. It’s a no-win situation.”

“And look what we have. Look who we have there,” he continued. “It’s almost like a destiny to have this thing there attempting to destroy this country and maybe not even understanding why. So it’s up to us to protect the country.”

“That we love?” Wallace prompted.

“Yes,” De Niro replied.

Wallace, who did not appear to be crying, added, “You weren’t supposed to make me cry. Thank you so much. Thank you for this. We talked about how this is the moment, this is the moment that it goes one way or the other. Is it going the other way?”

“I don’t know. All I know is people have to have to resist, resist, resist,” De Niro declared. “There’s no easy way. It’s not going to come to you easy. You know, there’s a time when you know in your own life and your own survival, you better do this. You better jump and run through the fire because if you don’t run through the fire, you’re not getting out and that’s what we have to do.”