Robert De Niro compares Trump to Hitler: 'He's a stupid bully!'

Robert De Niro compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to World War II tyrants Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

'Look what happened with France, and with the Nazis and so on.... As a kid, I said "Hitler, it's a nightmare that never would happen." But now I see that it's possible.'

Ironically, De Niro said in the same interview that he 'was tired of calling [Trump] names.'

It's far from the first time the actor goes on a tirade against Trump.

De Niro has previously compared to Trump to Hitler, including in 2019 in an interview with the Guardian, where he gave nearly identical statements to his most recent ones.

He said at the time: 'they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and other dictators and despots look funny.'

Last month De Niro launched into another foul-mouthed rant about Trump on Bill Maher's talk show and said the ex-president's supporters want 'to f**k with people.'

'He's such a mean, nasty, hateful person. I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing redeemable in him,' De Niro said. 

The actor also took aim at supporters of the 2024 Republican candidate, referring to them as those who 'like to f**k with people.'

De Niro has bashed Trump mercilessly for years ever since stepping up his public criticisms ahead of the presidential election in 2016.

Maher asked De Niro for his thoughts on Trump's lead in the election polls, saying, 'So, why is Trump winning? What do you attribute that to?'

Last month De Niro launched into another foul-mouthed rant about Trump on Bill Maher's talk show and said the ex-president's supporters want 'to f**k with people' 

De Niro didn't stop there, as he continued: 'He's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. He is a dangerous person 

The 68-year-old host added, 'I mean, the poll the New York Times poll this week came out, and maybe this will change it with the state of the Union address.

'But Trump was beating him rather soundly. It was quite a warning light, 48 to 43, also winning way more among women - women! - than he had before winning outright Latinos.'

De Niro simply responded with, 'I don't know,' before reflecting on Trump's victory in 2016 and sounding the alarm on his potential new term.

De Niro didn't stop there, as he continued: 'He's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist. He is a dangerous person.

'We have two people. We have a lot of people, this audience. But the people who somehow think he's going to be the answer to their prayers, whatever those are.'

The two-time Academy Award winner has been outspoken in his criticism of the former president, with the most notable incident occurring in 2018 when he exclaimed 'f**k Trump' twice on stage at the Tony Awards.

He received a full standing ovation as he said, 'It's no longer "down with Trump," it's f**k Trump.'

And in November of last year, he claimed on stage at the Gotham Awards that he had originally planned to include several cutting remarks about Trump, but his speech was cut down.

He said: 'I just want to say one thing. The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out, and I didn't know about it. And I want to read it.

But he still went back and said: 'The former President lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office. And he's keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution.

'But in all his lies, he can't hide his soul. He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature and shows disrespect by, for example, using Pocahontas as a slur.'