Award-winning actor Robert De Niro on Saturday compared Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE to his mentally unstable character, Travis Bickle, in the 1976 movie "Taxi Driver," calling the Republican presidential nominee "totally nuts."



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"What he has been saying is totally crazy, ridiculous stuff. ... He is totally nuts.



"I don't know. It's crazy that people like Donald Trump — he shouldn't even be where he is, so God help us," De Niro said as the Sarajevo National Theater erupted in applause.





"One of the things to me was just the irony at the end. [Bickle] is back driving a cab, celebrated, which is kind of relevant in some way today, too," De Niro said, according to The movie festival also marked the 40th anniversary of "Taxi Driver," in which De Niro played Bickle, the main character."One of the things to me was just the irony at the end. [Bickle] is back driving a cab, celebrated, which is kind of relevant in some way today, too," De Niro said, according to The Associated Press



The American actor received a lifetime achievement award on Friday when he opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

"But I think now they are really starting to push back, the media ... finally they are starting to say: Come on, Donald, this is ridiculous, this is nuts, this is insane," De Niro said at the Sarajevo Film Festival, according to Reuters