Robert De Niro wants you to know that Donald Trump will never leave the White House. He has wanted you to know this since at least May of 2024. He wanted you to know it again in October of 2025. And now, in a forthcoming podcast appearance with Nicolle Wallace, he wants you to know it one more time.
Breitbart reported that the actor is set to appear on a podcast sponsored by MS NOW, the far-left news network, where he delivers a familiar refrain. According to a preview reported by The Wrap, De Niro once again insists that Trump will refuse to vacate the presidency when his second term ends in 2028.
"Let's not kid ourselves. He will not leave. It's up to us to get rid of him."
Wallace, for her part, tried to emphasize that such a movement should be "peaceful." A reassuring qualifier, given the temperature of the rhetoric preceding it.
This is not new material. De Niro has been delivering this warning on a loop since the 2024 election, and the quotes are almost interchangeable at this point. In May of 2024, the actor offered this:
"Elections? Forget about it. That's over. That's done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now. He will never leave. He will never leave. You know that. He will never leave."
Then, in October of 2025, he kept the streak alive:
"We can't let up. Cannot let up on him because he is not going to leave the White House. He does not want to leave the White House. He will not leave the White House. Anybody thinks he, oh, he'll do this, he'll do that, it's just deluding themselves."
And now, from the podcast preview:
"He will never leave. We have to make him leave. He jokes now about nationalizing the elections. He's not joking. We've seen enough already."
Four statements across two years, all saying the same thing, with the same evidence behind them. Which is to say: none.
There is a rather large problem with the theory that Trump will barricade himself in the Oval Office and refuse to yield power. He already lost an election and left.
Trump lost his first re-election bid to Joe Biden in 2020. He left the White House without hesitation when he lost. There is no indication that he won't do so again in 2028. The Twenty-Second Amendment exists. The transfer of power has a date on the calendar. None of this requires Robert De Niro to organize a citizen resistance movement from a podcast studio.
But facts have never been the point of this exercise. The point is the performance.
De Niro also went on to claim that Trump is somehow threatening polling places, suggesting citizens may need to physically show up on "the other side" to ensure people can vote safely. His exact words:
"We have to make sure that like what he's trying now, that all the polling places have people that can come there safely. That might mean citizens on the other side."
What Trump is "trying now" at polling places is never specified. No incident is cited. No evidence is offered. It is the kind of claim that sounds urgent precisely because it is vague, a shadow on the wall that the audience is invited to fill in with their own anxieties.
This is the engine of modern progressive fearmongering. You don't need proof. You need tone. You need a famous face saying "you know that" with enough gravity that the listener nods along without asking what, exactly, they know.
The broader pattern here is worth noting, not because De Niro is uniquely influential, but because he represents a type. The celebrity who mistakes volume for moral authority.
The cultural figure who, having spent decades in rooms where everyone agrees with him, genuinely cannot fathom that the democratic process might produce outcomes he dislikes and then self-correct on schedule.
Some even made the same "he'll never leave" claim in 2020. Trump left. The prediction failed. Nobody recalibrated. They simply moved the goalpost to 2028 and kept going.
This is not political commentary. It is a ritual. The conspiracy refreshes itself every cycle, immune to the fact that its core prediction has already been disproven by observable reality. The left spent years warning that democracy was about to end, watched it continue functioning, and concluded that they simply hadn't warned hard enough.
De Niro telling Nicolle Wallace that Trump "will never leave" is not brave. It is not insightful. It is a man reciting the same line to the same audience and receiving the same applause. The podcast drops Monday. The next one will sound identical.
