Stephen Miller: De Niro 'a sad, bitter, broken old man'

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called out Robert De Niro on Wednesday and derided the award-winning actor during a Fox News interview.

Miller, who appeared on "Hannity," referred to "The Godfather Part II" actor as "a sad, bitter, broken old man who is mostly enraged because he has not made a movie worth watching in at least 30 years."

"Probably the longest string of flops, failures, embarrassments," Miller continued. "This man has been degrading himself on camera with one horrific film after another for my entire adult life, and he's not taken seriously by anybody, not by his family, not by his friends, not by his community. He is a shell of a man and everyone disregards everything he says."

Host Sean Hannity brought up De Niro after the actor compared Miller to Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, and called Miller a Nazi while part of a panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend." De Niro also called out President Trump while praising New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

"I like what Letitia James is doing, she's fighting back, she's saying, 'F--- you,'" De Niro said, met by audible gasps. "I'm sorry. This is where we are. She's saying, 'This is it. I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him.' And God bless her for that."

De Niro also said Trump "will not want to leave" after he finishes his second term, before bringing up Miller by calling him "Goebbels." To the actor, Trump "has no empathy."

"I don’t know where — what he is, but he’s an alien, and he wants to hurt this country," De Niro said. “It’s something deeply psychological in him, he wants to hurt people. He wants to hurt this country, doesn’t care.”

De Niro has been a frequent critic of Trump since the the president's first administration. Back then, he famously dropped f-bombs while talking about the country's chief executive.

In September 2019, De Niro spoke with Brian Stelter, then a CNN host, who said the actor faced pushback from various Fox News personalities.

"F--- them," De Niro replied. "F--- them."

Stelter pushed back and asked why De Niro chooses "to go that way."

”We are at a moment in this country where this guy is like a gangster,” De Niro answered. “He’s said things, done things. We say over and over again, ‘This is terrible. We’re in a terrible situation.’ We’re in a terrible situation, and this guy keeps going on and on and on without being stopped.”