Robert De Niro Kicks Off Cannes Film Festival With Blistering Speech About 'Philistine' Trump

Robert De Niro at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

Robert De Niro used his acceptance speech at the Cannes Film Festival to once again take aim at Donald Trump.

Throughout Trump’s political career, De Niro has been one of his most vocal critics – even garnering responses from the president on multiple occasions.

While accepting an honorary Palme D’Or – the film festival’s highest honour – on Tuesday, the two-time Oscar winner said that back in the US, people...