Robert De Niro didn’t hold back on President Donald Trump while accepting his honorary award at Cannes 2025. 😳 Check the comments…

At 81, Robert De Niro received the honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2025. Presented by Leonardo DiCaprio, De Niro used his speech to criticize U.S. politics, targeting President Trump’s policies on arts funding, tariffs, and authoritarianism.

He called for passionate, nonviolent action to defend democracy, urging people to organize, protest, and vote. His remarks sparked mixed reactions online—praised by some for courage and condemned by others as disrespectful.

De Niro, who considers Cannes “like coming home,” attended the ceremony with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen and daughter Helen Grace. Last year, he celebrated his 81st birthday with a memorable yacht jump, shared by his daughter on social media.