
Actor Robert De Niro has called on Americans to keep up the anti-Trump protests, fearing the president will “not leave the White House.”
The Goodfellas star revealed his feelings when speaking with MSNBC after the nationwide “No Kings” protest on Saturday, adding lawmakers should be “more afraid of the wrath of the people” than the “wrath of Trump.”
“We can’t let up,” De Niro said. “Cannot let up on him because he is not going to leave the White House. He does not want to leave the White House. He will not leave the White House. Anybody thinks he, oh, he’ll do this, he’ll do that, it’s just deluding themselves.”
“The Republicans, most of all, because they know, but they’re going along with it. It’s a classic bully situation. We see it, and there’s no other way to face a bully. You have to face him and fight it out and back them off and back him down. That’s the only way this is going to work,” he added.
De Niro heavily promoted the “No Kings” protest leading up to Saturday, previously comparing the movement to the original American Revolution.
Stewart: Dems ‘Shut Down the Government’ to Protect Subsidies for Marketplace That Makes Insurance Companies Rich
On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday, host Jon Stewart stated that Democrats are in a position where “we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies.”
Stewart asked, “[W]hat Democrats find themselves in a place is, we’ve shut down the government to protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of all these insurance companies. Have Democrats boxed themselves into a corner fighting for a system that, ultimately, to get to the thing you want, that I think the American people want, they’re going to have to abandon?”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded, “Yes.” And stated that there will be dire consequences to ending the subsidies, the healthcare system is the right one to defend for today, and the right move long-term is to move to single-payer because the current system is “designed to make huge profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies, period.”
After the discussion turned to college education, Stewart said, “[T]his gets to the Democratic solutions have never been to directly provide, it’s always been a subsidy to a middleman. But, what happens is, when the government promises endless funds to insurance companies or private universities, without any cost controls — and Trump seems to understand this — prices rise far beyond the rate of inflation. And we’ve seen it in tuition and we’ve seen it in pharmaceutical and we’ve seen it health care. So, my question is, will Democrats recognize the poison pill that they’ve often placed into well-intentioned policy?”
Sanders responded, “Right. What they end up doing is coming up with very complicated proposals. You make $48,964, you will get this thing, you make a dollar more, you’re finished.”