--- --- # Robert De Niro on Trump Inauguration Boycott: 'Whatever People Do They Should Do It Fully'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 17, 2017 10:18 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 17, 2017 10:18 PM UTC [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/). Watch the full TODAY clip below. Robert De Niro on Trump Inauguration Boycott 'Warranted' VIDEO ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4636913/robert-de-niro-on-inauguration-boycott/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4636913/robert-de-niro-on-inauguration-boycott/"},"headline":"Robert De Niro on Trump Inauguration Boycott: 'Whatever People Do They Should Do It Fully'","datePublished":"2017-01-17T22:18:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:14.067Z","description":"\"Everybody has to be on guard\"","url":"https://time.com/4636913/robert-de-niro-on-inauguration-boycott/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","celebrities","Donald Trump","Robert De Niro","Inauguration 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4636913/robert-de-niro-on-inauguration-boycott/","name":"Robert De Niro on Trump Inauguration Boycott: 'Whatever People Do They Should Do It Fully'"}}]}] ```