Robert De Niro accuses Gotham Awards of censoring his speech
De Niro didn’t let the last-minute edit deter him. He read the speech anyway
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Robert De Niro has more than a few opinions about former President Donald Trump, and he’s not one to be quiet about it. For the last decade, De Niro’s public appearances have been punctuated with criticisms of Trump. Why, just last month, he called him a “wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics.” So when given the podium at tonight’s Gotham Awards, it seemed like a good opportunity for De Niro to, once again, tell us how he really feels. Someone, Mr. De Niro believes, didn’t agree.
During a tribute to Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, De Niro noted that part of his speech was missing from the teleprompter. Per Vulture, De Niro stammered in his reading, attempting to find his place. The show cut away from De Niro to present a montage of clips from the film before returning to the actor, who claimed his speech had been edited. “The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out. I didn’t know about it,” he said. The A.V. Club has reached out to the Gotham Awards for comment.
Luckily, De Niro had a copy of the speech on his phone and read it anyway. It reads:
“History isn’t history anymore. Truth is not truth; even facts are being replaced by alternative facts and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness. In Florida, young students are taught that slaves developed skills which could be applied for their personal benefit. The entertainment industry isn’t immune to this festering disease. ‘The Duke’ John Wayne famously said of Native Americans, ‘I don’t feel we’ve did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.’ Lying has become just another tool in the charlatan’s arsenal. 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 with all of his lies he can’t hide his soul. He attacks the weak, he destroys the gifts of nature, and shows disrespect; for example, by using Pocahontas as a slur.”
After his speech was met with applause, he accused Apple and/or the Gotham Awards of editing his speech without his knowledge. “This is where I came in and saw they edited all that,” he said. “I don’t feel like thanking [Apple or the Gotham Awards] at all for what they did. How dare they do that, actually.”
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Good.
I blame the Joker.
The Joker made the speech disappear by sticking it into a table, then slamming a goon’s face into it.
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So.. De Niro 2024?
😀
lil bit!
Well I hate to say this but… De Niro is younger than our current president.
Most of us are.
Good for him. If Apple (or whomever) wanted the speech edited, it’s their show. However, you discuss it with DeNiro ahead of time, reach an agreement, or find another speaker. Trying to be sneaky and just cutting it from the teleprompter is a bad look, and horrible lapse in judgement, as DeNiro calling them out on it in real time was absolutely predictable.
Let’s pull a fast one on a notoriously cranky and outspoken 80-year-old with an audience. What could possibly go wrong?
He’s about the last person I’d expect to just roll with something like this.
Oooooooo-oooooooo What’s up with that WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?!?!?
DeNiro calling them out on it in real time was absolutely beautiful.
FTFY
That too
What a fucking awesome guy. I love him.
Honestly it’s really nice to meet someone his age that gets stuff right.
I was about to say, an old white man who isn’t a raging racist? This is new and exciting. It’s like him and Richard Gere.
Stan Lee was fully supportive of Zendaya playing Mary Jane.
Actually though I just remembered that de Niro probably sexually harassed his assistant, so…sigh. You win some, you lose some.
Not sure supporting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians counts as “getting it right.”
Um, not sure if I missed in the article, or if maybe there was something in the news where this happened? If so, forgive my ignorance. Or, you know, fuck off.
This is as good a time to find out as any. Not blaming you for not knowing.
Have to admit, DeNiro has grown really tiresome.
No such thing as bad publicity, Gotham Awards.
It’s always nice to have people reminded that Marion Morrison* was a steaming pile of shit.*Conservatives keep insisting that people aren’t allowed to be addressed by chosen names but never call Marion by the name his parents gave him.
“His mama named him Clay, I’ma call him Clay!”
Oh yeah! I forget that these same people weren’t happy with Muhammad Ali’s name change!
Awww, be nice to the Duke. He’s the one who taught Nancy Reagan how to be the throat goat.
This story is missing the full context: he was also shaking his hips in an unseemly way, and they didn’t want all of the young women to be driven to hysterics.
Who would think that they could edit DeNiro’s speech like this, not tell him, and everything would work out fine? What about DeNiro’s recent public messages made them think this would go over well for them?
Someone forgot to take their nap and is a little cranky.
Well, you have plenty of time now. Off you go.
His claim that Trump “lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office” sounds like the ranting of an old man. Where did you get that number?
Right, it’s like who was keeping track of the rantings of the most powerful person in the world? Couldn’t be the MSM; they shut down after randos made fun of them on Twitter…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
I see. Is there any similar database for any other President?
“The A.V. Club has reached out to the Gotham Awards for comment.”Does anyone believe that the AV Club actually does this?