Hollywood icon and longtime Donald Trump hater Robert De Niro was in the Supreme Court this week and had a front row seat to watch the president’s plan take a verbal beating by the justices.
The legendary actor was spotted inside the courtroom by multiple attendees as the country’s highest court heard arguments on Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.
The visit put him in the same room as Trump, who became the first sitting president ever to attend Supreme Court arguments.
And the arguments did not go well for the president, as even conservative justices expressed deep skepticism over the president’s plan.
Trump, 79, didn’t even stay for the entire hearing and quickly exited the courtroom just over an hour into the hearing after watching his Solicitor General D. John Sauer face brutal questioning by the court.
At times, Sauer had to admit he didn’t have answers prepared or had thought through arguments in response to numerous questions posed by the justices.
It must have been a satisfying moment for the award-winning actor who has, for years, been one of the most vocal anti-Trump voices in Hollywood.
Fox News caught up with De Niro, 82, outside the courthouse in Washington, DC.
“People don’t like him for a reason, of all the terrible things he’s done,” he said. He went on to blast Trump for doing “hateful retribution” and “outright mean things.”
“If he did nice things, people would love him, but he’s got a problem,” De Niro said. “He’s damaged.”
Just last week, the actor delivered video remarks for the No Kings rally in Minnesota on Saturday and also attended a separate rally in New York.
“You know the arrogant would-be king is absolutely scared to death about losing his power and will do everything he can to hold on to it without regard to legality, morality, humanity, nothing,” he said in the video.
In a separate video posted for a No Kings rally, De Niro argued that the only way the president would be stopped is “by the people,” but the Supreme Court could also rule against him as the justices appeared troubled by his push to upend the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and dramatically restrict U.S. citizenship.
De Niro was also feet away from other top members of the Trump administration, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Attorney General Pam Bondi on what turned out to be the last day in her job.
Before Trump rushed out of the Supreme Court just over halfway through the arguments, he was just another spectator in the room, treated no differently from others despite being president.
The 79-year-old was also spotted, on occasion, with his eyes closed in the courtroom as the justices eviscerated his executive order.
