De Niro made the comments to a
Sarajevo audience as he presented a digital version of Martin Scorsese's film
"Taxi Driver."
U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday that U.S. Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trumpshould not run for
president because he was "totally nuts".
Trump, a billionaire businessman
seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory
statements about his main opponent Hillary Clinton, guns,
Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others.
De Niro made the comments to a
Sarajevo audience as he presented a digital version of Martin Scorsese's film
"Taxi Driver", in which he starred, to mark its 40th anniversary.
"I don't know, it's crazy that
people like Donald Trump ..., he shouldn't even be where he is, so God help
us," De Niro said to wide applause in the Sarajevo National Theater.
"What he's been saying is really
totally crazy, ridiculous ... he is totally nuts."
"But I think now they are really
starting to push back, the media ... finally they are starting to say:
Come on Donald, this is ridiculous,
this is nuts, this is insane," De Niro said.
Trump has blamed U.S. news media of
taking many his comments out of context.
On Friday night, the 73-year-old actor
opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which was founded as an act of defiance
towards the end of the city's 1992-1995 siege during the Bosnian war, and was
honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to film.
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