Robert De Niro criticized Trump's threat of film tariffs at Cannes and called him a 'philistine.' Here's a timeline of their 14-year feud.

De Niro and Trump's beef cooled disconnected until Trump became the Republican Party's campaigner for the 2016 statesmanlike election.

While speaking astatine an lawsuit for the 40th day of "Taxi Driver" successful Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, successful August 2016, De Niro brought up Trump's campaign and said the businessman was "totally nuts."

"It's brainsick that radical similar Donald Trump, helium shouldn't adjacent beryllium wherever helium is, truthful God assistance us," De Niro said. "What he's been saying is truly wholly crazy, ridiculous stuff."

De Niro was 1 of the galore celebrities who supported Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency successful the run-up to the 2016 election.

In October of that year, De Niro participated successful a video for the #VoteYourFuture run to get young radical progressive but spent astir of the video slinging insults astatine Trump.

"I mean he's truthful blatantly stupid. He's a punk, he's a dog, he's a pig, he's a con, a bullshit artist, a mutt who doesn't cognize what he's talking about, doesn't bash his homework, doesn't care, thinks he's gaming society, doesn't wage his taxes. He's an idiot," helium said.

De Niro added: "He talks astir however helium wants to punch radical successful the face. Well, I'd similar to punch him successful the face."

De Niro aboriginal told "The View" that the "punch" menace was symbolic and helium didn't really privation to deed Trump.

"I said that due to the fact that helium said that astir idiosyncratic that helium would similar to punch them successful the face. How situation helium accidental that to the crowd?" De Niro said of Trump.

In the pursuing weeks, De Niro argued publically with actors Jon Voight and Arnold Schwarzenegger implicit their enactment for Trump and spoke retired against Trump during a code astatine the Hollywood Film Awards.

When Trump was elected successful November 2016, De Niro told The Hollywood Reporter that helium felt "like I did aft 9/11."

De Niro besides told "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" that helium won't punch the president.

"I can't bash that now; he's the president. I person to respect the position, though we each cognize what…," helium said, trailing disconnected arsenic a joke. "We person to spot what he's gonna do, and however he's truly gonna travel done connected definite things."

Their feud past cooled disconnected for the remainder of 2016.

In 2017, De Niro took astir each accidental to occurrence much shots astatine Trump.

In January 2017, De Niro appeared successful a "United We Stand" rally against Trump, wherever helium joked astir the president's societal media rants and criticized his stance connected immigration.

"He's a atrocious illustration of this country," De Niro said of Trump. "We're each rooting for the caller administration, of course, to wantonness the divisive, racist, misogynist, ignorant plans it's trumpeting and pb america with quality and compassion."

In the aforesaid month, helium told "Today" that calls to boycott Trump's statesmanlike inauguration were justified.

"I deliberation that immoderate radical do, they should bash it afloat due to the fact that there's a batch of brainsick worldly happening now," De Niro said.

In May 2017, De Niro utilized a code astatine Brown University arsenic helium accepted an honorary doctorate of good arts to mock Trump.

"When you started school, the state was an inspiring, uplifting drama. You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy," helium said.

During different code astatine the Annual Hudson River Park Gala, De Niro called Trump a "motherfucker," New York Daily News reported.

In March 2018, De Niro called Trump an "idiot" successful a code for an lawsuit to observe the Fulfillment Fund for promoting higher education.

"He lacks immoderate consciousness of humanity oregon compassion," De Niro said per Variety. "Now I'm not trying to crook this non-political lawsuit into a governmental one, but arsenic agelong arsenic our country's enactment is truthful appalling and truthful corrupt, I'll beryllium speaking retired astatine each venue."

He added: "To beryllium soundless successful the look of specified villainy is to beryllium complicit, and it's particularly due contiguous due to the fact that Trump treats acquisition arsenic a con, a mode to marque a nett astatine the disbursal of the suckers."

Continuing the sentiment astir speaking up against Trump, successful June 2018, De Niro said "fuck Trump" portion hosting the Tony Awards, and received a lasting ovation.

This remark yet garnered a effect from Trump.

"Robert De Niro, a precise Low IQ individual, has received excessively galore shots to the caput by existent boxers successful movies. I watched him past nighttime and genuinely judge helium whitethorn beryllium 'punch-drunk,'" Trump wrote connected X 2 days aft the Tony's.

"I conjecture helium doesn't recognize the system is the champion it's ever been with employment being astatine an each clip high, and galore companies pouring backmost into our country. Wake up Punchy!" helium continued.

De Niro was besides 1 of respective Trump critics who were mailed bombs successful October 2018, though constabulary ne'er linked these incidents to the erstwhile US president.

De Niro was unfazed and alternatively responded by encouraging radical to ballot successful the midterm elections.

"There's thing much almighty than bombs and that's your vote. People MUST vote!" De Niro told Sky News. "I convey God nary one's been hurt, and I convey the brave and resourceful information and instrumentality enforcement radical for protecting us."

In 2018, "Saturday Night Live" began featuring regular sketches mocking Trump, with Alec Baldwin portraying the president. De Niro joined these sketches successful April, making predominant cameo appearances arsenic Robert Mueller, the peculiar counsel overseeing an probe into Trump's predetermination run and Russia's alleged interference successful the 2016 US elections.

In March 2019, Mueller released a study connected his probe into the US 2016 election. The study recovered that Russian agents "interfered successful the statesmanlike predetermination successful sweeping and systematic fashion" but said determination was not capable grounds to impeach Trump's squad of being involved.

However, the grounds wrong the study kickstarted a run to impeach Trump.

De Niro besides joined calls for Trump's impeachment. During a code astatine the American Icons Awards successful precocious March, De Niro said Trump's "impeachment and imprisonment" would marque America large again.

In May, De Niro wrote an unfastened missive to Mueller successful The New York Times to promote him to attest against Trump successful Congress.

In October, De Niro besides told The Guardian astatine the London Film Festival that helium wanted to spot Trump jailed aft his impeachment inquiry.

"Oh, I can't hold to spot him successful jail. I don't privation him to die, I privation him to spell to jail," De Niro said.

Trump was impeached successful 2019, but for a antithetic investigation, and the president was aboriginal acquitted by the Senate.

Throughout 2019, De Niro besides threw further insults astatine Trump, including calling him "too anserine to adjacent cognize he's evil," a "total loser," a "white supremacist" and a "nasty small bitch."

During Trump's past twelvemonth successful office, the satellite was deed by the COVID pandemic.

In May 2020, De Niro criticized Trump's effect to the pandemic connected BBC Newsnight, saying that the president did not attraction however galore radical had died.

"It's Shakespearean, the full thing, you've got a lunatic saying things that radical are trying to creation around," De Niro said. "They're doing it successful the hearings a small more, trying to accidental tactfully that this is what volition happen, Fauci is doing that."

De Niro added, referring to Trump: "It's appalling. He wants to beryllium re-elected. He doesn't adjacent attraction however galore radical die."

Trump being voted retired of bureau successful November 2020 didn't mean De Niro was done criticizing him.

De Niro told MSNBC successful November, aft the 2020 election, that helium though determination would beryllium different "Trump-like" campaigner who would beryllium astute capable to instrumentality the public.

"It's the aforesaid playbook arsenic Mussolini, arsenic Hitler, arsenic wannabe dictators," De Niro said. "It's each appealing to the worst prejudices, the worst weaknesses of the nationalist and alternatively of starring them and guiding them and being idiosyncratic that they tin look up to."

Ahead of the 2024 election, Variety reported that De Niro compared Trump to the "evil" men successful "Killers of a Flower Moon" during a property league astatine the Cannes Film Festival for the film.

"There are radical who inactive deliberation helium tin bash a bully job. Imagine however insane that is," De Niro said, referring to Trump.

In October, De Niro missed the Stop Trump Summit successful New York City aft contracting COVID but said successful a video statement: "When I look astatine him, I don't spot a atrocious man. Truly. I spot an evil one.

"The antheral who was expected to support this state enactment it successful peril, due to the fact that of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was similar an abusive begetter ruling the household by fearfulness and convulsive behavior."

At the Gotham Film Awards, helium brought up Trump again but stalled during his code and accused Apple, the shaper of the movie, of editing what helium wanted to say.

"I conscionable privation to accidental 1 thing. The opening of my code was edited, chopped out. I didn't cognize astir it. And I privation to work it," De Niro said earlier bringing retired his telephone to work the original speech.

"The erstwhile president lied to america much than 30,000 times during his 4 years … successful office, and he's keeping up the gait successful his existent run of retribution," De Niro said, referring to Trump. "But with each his lies, helium can't fell his soul."

De Niro told Rolling Stone that helium recovered retired aft the lawsuit that Apple had tried to inquire him to code down the speech, but helium had missed the memo.

Trump fired backmost astatine De Niro's comments successful a station connected Truth Social.

"Robert De Niro, whose acting talents person greatly diminished, with his estimation present shot, indispensable adjacent usage a teleprompter for his foul and disgusting language, truthful disrespectful to our Country," Trump wrote.

"De Niro should absorption connected his life, which is simply a mess, alternatively than the lives of others. He has go a full loser, arsenic the World watches, waits, and laughs!" helium added.

On May 22, De Niro lent his dependable to a video for Biden's statesmanlike campaign.

"Now, he's moving again, this clip threatening to beryllium a 'dictator,' to terminate the constitution," De Niro said. "Trump wants revenge, and he'll halt astatine thing to get it."

On May 28, De Niro appeared astatine a quality league for Biden's statesmanlike run extracurricular Trump's hush wealth trial. At the conference, helium said helium had joined Biden's campaign.

"When Trump ran successful 2016, it was similar a joke. 'This buffoon moving for president? No, ne'er could happen,'" De Niro said. "We'd forgotten the lessons of past that showed america different clowns who weren't taken earnestly until they became vicious dictators."

De Niro said the caller Biden-Harris advertisement was created to amusement however Trump uses "violence" against radical who basal successful his way.

"But it's a coward's violence," helium added.

In different interview with the property extracurricular the courthouse, De Niro said: "He's a monster. He cannot beryllium president of the United States again. Never ever."

Trump mocked De Niro connected Truth Social successful response.

"I ne'er knew however small, some mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was," Trump wrote connected Wednesday. "Today, De Niro, who suffers from an incurable lawsuit of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, commonly known successful the aesculapian assemblage arsenic TDS, was met, extracurricular the Courthouse, with a unit acold greater than the Radical Left - MAGA."

He added that De Niro looked "so pathetic and sad" and the actor's marque has "gone WAY DOWN IN VALUE" since helium started supporting Biden.

On May 30, Trump became the archetypal erstwhile U.S. president to beryllium convicted of a crime, aft helium was recovered blameworthy of 34 counts of falsifying concern records to fell a hush wealth outgo to Stormy Daniels.

Trump maintains his innocence.

"It's arsenic it should be. Justice has been served. That's it," De Niro told PageSix, adding that the nationalist indispensable halt Trump from being elected successful November.

De Niro told Variety astatine the time: "This ne'er should person gotten to this stage. I don't privation to beryllium talking, but I americium truthful upset by it. I person to accidental something. This is my country. This feline wants to destruct it. Period. He's crazy.

"People are fed up, they're going to combat back. That's not what we're astir successful this country."

De Niro appeared astatine the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to judge a Palme d'Or beingness accomplishment award.

He utilized his acceptance code to knock Trump, and said: "Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That's wherefore creation is simply a threat."

Referring to Trump becoming caput of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts successful February, De Niro continued: "That's wherefore we are a menace to autocrats and fascists. America's philistine president has had himself appointed caput of 1 of our premier taste institutions. He has chopped backing and enactment to the arts, humanities, and education."

The histrion besides criticized Trump's caller determination to enactment tariffs connected movies made extracurricular the US.

He added: "You can't enactment a terms connected creativity, but seemingly you tin enactment a tariff connected it. Of course, this is unacceptable. All of these attacks are unacceptable. And this isn't conscionable an American problem, it's a planetary one.

"Like a film, we can't conscionable each beryllium backmost and watch. We person to act, and we person to enactment now."

Trump's representatives did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.