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# Robert De Niro on Trump Inauguration Boycott: 'Whatever People Do They Should Do It Fully'

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## Megan McCluskey


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[Robert De Niro](http://time.com/4526602/robert-deniro-response-jon-voight-on-trump/) appears to feel that those who are [boycotting Donald Trump’s inauguration](http://time.com/4635411/democrats-boycotting-donald-trumps-inauguration/) as [president of the United States](http://time.com/4636935/president-obama-commute-chelsea-manning-prison-sentence/) are justified. 

During a Tuesday appearance on [TODAY](http://www.today.com/popculture/robert-de-niro-trump-inauguration-boycotts-everybody-has-be-guard-t107104) to promote his new Broadway musical _A Bronx Tale_, the 73-year-old actor was asked if he thinks the calls to oppose Friday’s inaugural events are “warranted.”

“Yeah, I think they are,” he told anchor Matt Lauer. “I think that whatever people do they should do it fully because there’s a lot of crazy stuff happening now — it’s just crazy. And maybe it’s an act and we’ll see once \[Trump’s\] in, but you know, everybody has to be on guard.”

De Niro was vocal about his stance on Trump leading up to the election, calling him, “a bulls—t artist … who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” in an [October interview](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/08/robert-de-niro-goes-off-on-donald-trump-id-like-to-punch-him-in-the-face/?utm%5Fterm=.44913895e6a0) for the #[VoteYourFuture campaign](http://voteyourfuture.us/).

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