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Robert De Niro Gets Screamed At Outside the Courthouse
from Donald Trump & Cracker Barrel | The Tim Dillon Show #394 · #394
4 min
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Tim recounts De Niro's press conference outside the courthouse the day before the verdict, the crowd screaming "you're washed up" at him, riffs on De Niro's TriBeCa real estate history and having a baby at 80, and notes he personally witnessed some of the scene.
- Tim questions what De Niro thinks will happen yelling at MAGA supporters outside the courthouse—that they'll suddenly agree Trump is a con.
- Everyone telling De Niro he's washed up is a dose he needs; it's an invariably true insult to throw at older people.
- Robert De Niro getting trashed by MAGA people while cops protect him with detail, despite having zero involvement in the Trump case.
- Police are assigned to De Niro while people get lit on fire in the subway and attacked with machetes at Times Square McDonald's.
- The scene recalls Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities—a novel about a Wall Street banker whose life spirals into chaos after hitting a child in the Bronx.
- In Bonfire, the banker's life descends into chaos after a hit-and-run; the trial becomes a civil rights issue with New York characters everywhere.
- Tom Wolfe could never have imagined a president tried in a hush-money case involving an OnlyFans model named Stormy Daniels.
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