'Mentally ill despot': Robert De Niro calls for 'No Kings' protests across US against Trump
Academy Award-winning actor and longtime political activist Robert De Niro has urged Americans to take to the streets again this Saturday in a nationwide "No Kings" protest against President Donald Trump and a "cowardly Congress."
De Niro made the announcement during a kickoff call with organizers of the March 28 demonstrations planned across the United States.
In a video statement, the veteran actor drew a direct parallel between the American Revolution and what he described as a contemporary threat to democratic institutions.
"I am Robert De Niro, and I invite you and millions of our fellow citizens to join me in the peaceful 'NO KINGS' protest on Saturday, March 28," he said.
The actor invoked the nation's founding, contrasting the struggle against British rule with the current political moment.
"When King George—a mad, mentally ill tyrant—and his abusive Parliament threatened our freedoms and the American spirit, we did not sit idly by or complain. No, we took to the streets, and our nation was born," De Niro stated.
"Now, 250 years later, another mentally ill despot has emerged: a corrupt 'wannabe king' and his cowardly Congress, seeking to launch insane foreign wars and suppress our freedoms right here, in our own homeland."
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De Niro warned that inaction would carry consequences, declaring that past revolutionaries "did not succeed back then, and they will not succeed now, but only if we stand in their way."
This Saturday's call to action comes nearly six months after he issued a similar appeal for a "No Kings" protest against the US president and his warmongering policies.
"The original No Kings protest was 250 years ago," De Niro said in a video shared at the time on the Indivisible Project's Instagram page.
"Americans decided they didn't want to live under the rule of King George III. They declared their independence and fought a bloody war for democracy."
The protests are scheduled to take place in cities across the US on Saturday, with organizers expecting significant turnout.
De Niro's involvement continues a pattern of political engagement from the actor, who has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration throughout its current term.
His latest call comes amid the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was launched on February 28 in the middle of indirect nuclear talks.
Trump has faced blistering criticism over the war, with Americans slamming him for playing into the hands of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and fighting his wars.
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