Robert De Niro Calls For Assembly Of Experts To Choose Future Supreme Leader Of US

This is not an April Fools joke

Like most of America’s cultural and political elites, Robert De Niro just cannot reconcile himself to Donald Trump winning the popular vote in 2024. Now he says he wants “a screening process that everyone has to go through”, which is very rich coming from a man who endorsed Kamala Harris.

Journalist Freddie Hayward was backstage with De Niro recently. Hayward “suggested that, perhaps, this is what we call an election”, whereupon the actor doubled down on his statement that a “screening process” should be added to the American elections system.

The interview took place at the recent “State of the Swamp” counterprogram to the State of the Union speech, where De Niro appeared with a man in a frog costume. On stage, De Niro compared patriotism in the time of Trump to an “abused spouse professing love for their abuser.”

Backstage, De Niro suggested to Hayward that some sort of deliberative body ought to have prevented Trump from running again. Now 82, De Niro may be suffering from memory loss, and therefore unable to recall the many ways in which Democrats tried to prevent Trump from being able to run for president again.

He may also have forgotten that a country exists which has constitutional organs to do exactly the thing he describes. De Niro is describing the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, drafted by none other than Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

In Iran, an Assembly of Experts chooses the Supreme Leader, while the Guardian Council decides who is allowed to run for president. Khomeini distrusted democracy, so he created these institutions to prevent exactly the sort of scenario that has made Robert De Niro so sad.

De Niro would probably enjoy life on the island of Cuba as well. There, the National Assembly of People’s Power selects the president and prime minister by absolute majority, cutting out any popular vote at all.

For that matter, the Electoral College was supposed to be a filtering mechanism against presidents with too much popularity in any one state or group of states. As far as I can tell, Robert De Niro has never expressed an opinion about the Electoral College. Perhaps he needs to educate himself on the topic?

Hollywood made a mistake by letting its actors speak their political minds. I am not being snide when I say that wish I knew less about Robert De Niro’s dumb opinions. In 2024, Democrats had a selection process that cut out popular democracy and put a vapid Kamala Harris in a contest she could never win. Our elites are still mad about it, still taking revenge on us, still unable to understand why Americans don’t do what they want.

They wanted us to see One Battle After Another. The message of the film, which depicts violent revolutionaries taking revenge on America, was so important that the Academy gave it six Oscars, including Best Picture. But the movie audience betrayed Hollywood by staying home, and then going to see Project Hail Mary instead.

We don’t vote for their woke candidates. We don’t buy tickets to see their woke garbage films. They hate us for it, so they want to change the rules, now, and make us suffer for our sins. They think of us as sinners, and themselves as the saints. In that way, they are exactly like the mullahs of Iran.