Robert De Niro slams Donald Trump

New York May 9 (IANS) Veteran actor Robert De Niro has slammed US President Donald Trump pointing out how the administration s budget proposal is targeting the arts.

While accepting the Film Society of Lincoln Center s Chaplin Award here De Niro said the administration is targeting the arts and potentially depriving the US of great artistes for their own divisive political purposes reports variety.com.

I don t make movies for rich liberal elites. I ve got my restaurants for that. I make them for everybody the 73-year-old said.

De Niro mentioned the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities and Corporation for Public Broadcasting which would be eliminated under the president s budget proposal for their own divisive political purposes.

I call it what it is: bullshit said the Taxi Driver star.

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