White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is firing back at actor Robert De Niro.
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday, De Niro took sharp aim at President Donald Trump and members of his administration.
“Trump does not understand anything about humanity, people,” De Niro said on “The Weekend,” adding that “He has no empathy.”
He continued: “I don’t know where — what he is, but he’s an alien, and he wants to hurt this country. It’s something deeply psychological in him, he wants to hurt people.”
The “Goodfellas” actor, a longtime critic of Trump, went on to claim that the president will “not want to leave” office at the end of his second term.
“He set it up with, I guess he’s the Goebbels of the Cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi,” De Niro said, referring to Joseph Goebbels, who was appointed by Adolf Hitler as the former chief propagandist of the Nazi Party.
“And he’s Jewish. He should be ashamed of himself,” he added of Miller.
Miller appeared to have viewed the attack — going on to lash out on De Niro during an appearance on Fox News late Wednesday.
“Robert De Niro is a sad, bitter, broken old man who is mostly enraged because he has not made a movie worth watching in at least 30 years,” Miller said on “Hannity.” “Probably the longest string of flops, failures, embarrassments.”
Miller claimed that De Niro has been “degrading himself on camera with one horrific film after another for my entire adult life.”
“And he’s not taken seriously by anybody,” he continued. “Not by his family, not by his friends, not by his community. He’s a shell of a man, and everybody disregards everything he says.”
Meanwhile, Vanity Fair reported in 2020 that Miller, while growing up, had decorated his bedroom walls with posters from “Casino” and “Goodfellas,” which were two of his favorite films. One of his friends told the outlet that Miller loved Las Vegas and would wear outfits inspired by Sam “Ace” Rothstein, appearing to also study the actor’s gestures.
De Niro has appeared in “Heat,” “The Intern,” “Meet the Parents,” “The Irishman” and more over the last few decades. He was also nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe last year for his role as the villain in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
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