Robert De Niro is speaking out on the importance of protests, saying, “We can’t let up,” because President Donald Trump “does not want to leave the White House.”
The Oscar winner stopped by MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday to chat about Saturday’s “No Kings” protests across the nation and the risk of Trump running for a third term.
“The original No Kings protest was 250 years ago,” De Niro said of the American Revolution, which started in 1775. “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. We’ve had two and a half centuries of democracy since then. Often challenging, sometimes messy, always essential, and we fought in two World Wars to preserve it.”
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