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Robert De Niro’s tearful MS NOW sit‑down with Nicolle Wallace played out like a Hollywood morality play — the veteran actor choked up as he warned that President Trump is “destroying” the country and urged Americans to “resist” what he called a national emergency. The clip, from a Feb. 23, 2026 interview on The Best People, showed an emotional De Niro pleading that citizens must “protect the country” from the president’s actions.
In the same conversation De Niro went further, telling Wallace he believes Mr. Trump “will never leave” office without being forced out and insisting it is “up to us to get rid of him,” language that echoes calls for mass protest and civil disobedience. The actor even urged a scale of resistance comparable to the Vietnam‑era demonstrations, a dangerous escalation from performance art to political agitation.
This spectacle exposes the bitter disconnect between Hollywood elites and ordinary Americans who go to work, raise families, and respect the rule of law. Tears and righteous fury make for good clips, but they do not replace ballots, legislation, or the Constitution — and it’s telling that celebrity outrage so often substitutes for real civic engagement.
De Niro’s grandstanding is hardly new; he has made a career out of denouncing presidents he dislikes and rallying celebrity influence against public officials. That pattern — a famous face playing the nation’s conscience while urging unrest — should make conservatives and moderates alike skeptical of celebrity lectures on democracy.
More importantly, rhetoric about “making” an elected leader leave crosses a line that responsible citizens should not cross. Conservatives must call out dangerous double standards: if the left fears authoritarianism, they should stop cheering for extra‑constitutional solutions when the actor class squeals. The proper response is to organize, vote, and defend institutions within the law, not to glamorize revolt.
Hardworking Americans know their country is bigger than a few damp‑eyed speeches on cable podcasts, and they will settle the debate the old fashioned way — at the ballot box and in the halls of power, not on the stage of celebrity temper tantrums. If De Niro wants to save the country, he can start by supporting democratic norms instead of stoking division, and the rest of us will keep doing the real work of preserving liberty and order.
