Robert De Niro has been denied a prestigious award after making a speech calling Donald Trump a “clown” and a "dictator "outside the former president’s trial.
The actor, 80, joined a Democrat-organised event on Tuesday outside the New York court where Trump was on trial for falsifying business records to cover up an affair before the 2016 presidential election.
Standing by Manhattan Criminal Court, De Niro tore into the Republican - calling him a “monster” - and argued with Trump supporters who he called “gangsters”.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) decided to rescind an offer to award De Niro with the Leadership Foundation’s Service to America Award, which he was set to receive on Tuesday.
A spokesperson said the event at which the actor would have received the prize “is proudly bipartisan, uniting those from across the political spectrum to celebrate the impactful work of local broadcasters and our partners”.
They added: "While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize.
“To maintain the focus on service of the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer be attending the event.”
Never heard of them or their award.
That’s the real story. The general public won’t hear about most lobby groups until they make the news because lobby groups are not in business with the general public.
I’d thought “Bipartisan” mean “we accept people from both side and we literally couldn’t care” and not “woah mate you can’t say something that would hurt the other side”, and “uniting people across the political spectrum” mean “let’s separate art and politics for this award” and not “you’re not allow to publicly said something politically charged outside of the event”.
Yeah, they’re statement is highly suspect, like anyone going “there are bad people on both sides”, and I’d be very interested to see where their funding comes from and who sits on their board because “actor says something political” is hardly uncommon but their reaction is weird.
Bipartisan means both partisans are in agreement
Oh no! How will his career survive, he’ll never be taken seriously as an actor without the opportunity to win this prestigious award I’ve never heard of.
Rescinding an award named “Service to America” for calling out a wanna be dictator is rich. De Niro should get a second one for this alone.
I’m sure he gives a fuck lol
I’m sure he’ll wear this as a badge of honour, so that’s a backfire for sure.
His reaction to it is classier than mine would have been but he knows they need him more than he needs them.
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Award Committee: “How can we get our small, unrecognised award into public discourse?”
De Niro does something
Award Committee: “Time to drum up the rage bait, boys. All we have to do is deny De Niro.”
Lemmy Community: “Hey, I can be angry too! upvotes”
Do you guys not see what is happening here?
Be fair, they’re probably not familiar with how the media operates, so did so in good faith.
Did you just claim that NAB isn’t familiar with how the media operates? 🥴
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Broadcasters
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I should have known better.
Pretending anything is normal about Trump doesn’t sound very prestigious.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Robert De Niro has been denied a prestigious award after making a speech calling Donald Trump a “clown” and a "dictator "outside the former president’s trial.
The actor, 80, joined a Democrat-organised event on Tuesday outside the New York court where Trump was on trial for falsifying business records to cover up an affair before the 2016 presidential election.
A spokesperson said the event at which the actor would have received the prize “is proudly bipartisan, uniting those from across the political spectrum to celebrate the impactful work of local broadcasters and our partners”.
They added: "While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize.
Joined on Tuesday by two former law enforcement officers who were at the US Capitol during the 6 January riots three years ago, De Niro said of Trump: “He doesn’t belong in my city.”
On Friday, Trump was later found unanimously guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up “hush money” payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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