Robert De Niro slams Trump's 'appalling' coronavirus response with Stephen Colbert

"We're all paying for it now."
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Robert De Niro slams Trump's 'appalling' coronavirus response with Stephen Colbert
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If you've ever heard Robert De Niro speaking about Trump, you'll probably already know that he isn't the president's biggest fan.

But he's really not a fan of the way the president's been handling the coronavirus pandemic.

Appearing on The Late Show on Wednesday, the actor made his feelings abundantly clear.

"We of course could have survived this much better if idiot had done the right thing and listened and heeded all the warnings — there were many, many warnings — and we're all paying for it now," De Niro says in the clip above. "It would have been bad, maybe, in some ways, but never like this."

He goes on to say that Trump's response to the pandemic has been "appalling", and that he believes the president's plans are geared around his own re-election.

"I have no words for it anymore," says De Niro. "I'm completely nonplussed, dumbfounded, confounded [...] And what's scarier about it all is the Republicans and his enablers around him are not doing anything."

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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