Robert De Niro says speech blasting Trump was cut at Gotham Awards: ‘How dare they do that’

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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. 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, who has been a very outspoken critic of the Republican party and Trump, claimed 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 itself, claiming that they were not 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.