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Robert De Niro's swearing at Trump goes viral again—What you need to know
The Oscars 2025 was organized at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on March 2. Since then, the claims of actor Robert De Niro lashing out at U.S. President Donald Trump have gone viral on the microblogging platform X.
A video of famous actor Robert De Niro insulting US President Donald Trump on stage is circulating online. "F*ck Trump" is said by the popular actor in an authentic but old video. He did not say the words at this year's Oscars, but seven years ago at the Tony Awards. A similar eight-year-old video of rapper Eminem has also been circulating.
Oscars 2025: Did Robert De Niro really say ‘f*** Trump’?
Robert De Niro did not say 'f*** Trump' on stage at the 2025 Oscars ceremony, despite social media posts suggesting as such on Sunday. The Zero Day star actually made the comment and condemned the US president back in 2018 - during the Republican's first term in office - at the Tony Awards, which recognise talent in American theatre.
It circulates by X, Facebook and TikTok a video of actor Robert De Niro in which he says “fuck Trump” (fuck Trump, in Spanish) along with messages claiming that it happened at the Oscar Awards gala held last March 2. But it’s misleading. De Niro made these statements in 2018 at the Tony Awards. 2018 statements. An inverse search on Google Images shows records of the video in 2018. British newspaper The Guardian published the De Niro scene insult…
Fact Check: Oscars 2025: Robert De Niro Swears At Trump? No, Viral Video Is From 2018 Tony Awards
Claim 81-year-old actor Robert De Niro swears at US president Donald Trump while presenting at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 2 (Sunday). The archived versions of the posts can be seen here and here. Fact Newschecker noticed that the banner in the background read Tony Awards, indicating that the incident is not from the Academy Awards. The Tony Awards are the New York theatre industry’s equivalent to the Oscars. We then ran a ke…
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