After calling Robert De Niro a ‘wacko’ following his rant outside Manhattan criminal court, Donald Trump has posted a deepfake video that manipulates the actor’s own voice to call himself ‘washed up.’
Trump posted the video from his Truth Social account. It features Deniro at at a press conference organized by the Biden campaign outside the Stormy Daniels trial, with the same honking car alarm that accompanied the original.
Only this time, the Academy Award winning actor calls himself a ‘scared little man’ and a ‘sicko’ with ‘lots of skeletons in my closet.’
It also insults his stature, calls Trump a ‘real man,’ and includes crude references to gay sex.
‘I don’t know why they made this podium so high. I told them I’m coming straight from the bathhouse and didn’t have my platform shoes with me,’ the actor says in a manipulated voice that resembles his own in the video blasted out by Trump to his followers.
‘I’m speaking to you today because I’m a scared little man, a washed up actor with lots of skeletons in my closet. People like me need Joe Biden and power not because he’s any good, but because he enjoys the same sick perversions,’ it says.
The manipulated ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Godfather Part II’ actor then says he only gets to ‘pretend to be tough and powerful on a movie set.’
‘If Donald Trump was in front of me right now I’d punch myself right in the face, get down on my hands and knees …’ the deepfake version of De Niro says, with a crude reference in the video posted by the former president.
The deepfake also includes a nod to DeNiro’s performance in ‘Meet the Parents,’ saying if Trump gets reelected ‘sickos like me will be permanently banned from the circle of trust.’
The crude video comes after DeNiro hammered Trump at the New York press conference, after doing voiceover for a video that savaged the former president as a ‘clown’ and a would-be ‘dictator.’
‘I love this city I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country and eventually he could destroy the world,’ the New Yorker said.
He said if Trump gets reelected he will never relinquish power.
‘I can tell you right now. He will never leave. He will never leave. You know that. He will never leave,’ De Niro said.
He was heckled by Trump supporters during the appearance.
‘We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot,’ De Niro said of Trump. ‘A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids. A clown.’
‘But this city is pretty accommodating. We make room for clowns,’ the actor continued. ‘But not a person like Trump, who will eventually run the country, that does not work and we all know that.’
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller followed up with his own press conference slamming De Niro as a ‘washed up actor.’