ROBERT De Niro has said he would like to see a bag of faeces thrown in Donald Trump’s face.
The Oscar-winning actor, 76, said the public needed to see the US president “humiliated”.
The Irishman star and long-standing Trump critic made the remarks during an appearance on documentary maker Michael Moore’s podcast.
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De Niro said: “I’d like to see a bag of s**t right in his face.
“Hit him right in the face like that and let the picture go all over the world.
“That would be the most humiliating thing because he needs to be humiliated.
“He needs to be confronted and humiliated by whoever his opponent is – his political opponent.
“They don’t need to do it in an obvious physical way but they have to have the formidability to confront him and put him in his place. The people have to see him humiliated.”
De Niro suggested Republican Party politicians had “made a deal with the devil” by working with him.
He added: “You have sold yourself, you have prostituted yourself to be with this fool that taints everybody.”
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