Robert De Niro Torches Trump with BUTAL Joke (Video)

Robert De Niro did not waste his surprise appearance on Stephen Colbert’s penultimate episode of The Late Show.

The legendary actor, who has spent years publicly blasting Donald Trump, walked onto the late-night stage and quickly turned a playful bit into a stinging political jab — this time dragging the president over the still-unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files.

De Niro, 82, appeared on Wednesday night’s show alongside Aubrey Plaza and Martha Stewart as Colbert’s long-running CBS program neared its final curtain. But instead of a typical interview, the episode flipped the format on its head.

Colbert, 62, took a seat on the couch while his celebrity guests briefly stepped into the host’s chair and fired off questions of their own.

That opened the door for De Niro.

During the segment, the Oscar-winning star asked Colbert, “What number were you thinking of?”

Colbert explained that the answer was three, noting that both Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke had previously guessed the number correctly.

But De Niro had another number in mind.

“OK,” he said. “Because I thought it would have been two million point five, or two and a half million.”

Then came the punchline.

“That’s the number of Epstein files Trump still hasn’t released.”

The audience erupted into cheers and applause as Colbert burst out laughing from the couch.

It was a classic De Niro moment: dry, sharp, and aimed directly at Trump, a man the actor has repeatedly accused of posing a serious threat to American democracy.

De Niro’s latest jab comes as the Epstein files continue to fuel political controversy, with critics demanding more transparency and Trump’s opponents seizing on every delay, omission, and unanswered question surrounding the disgraced financier’s powerful connections.

For De Niro, the joke was not just another late-night zinger. It fit into a much larger pattern of public outrage.

The Taxi Driver and Goodfellas star has become one of Hollywood’s loudest anti-Trump voices, repeatedly warning that the president’s return to power represents a dangerous moment for the country.

In March, De Niro appeared during the No Kings 3 Kick-Off Call ahead of nationwide protests against the Trump administration. During that appearance, he warned viewers that Trump’s government “scares the hell” out of him.

“I’ve played plenty of tough, scary guys in the movies,” De Niro said at the time. “But you know what really scares the hell out of me? What the government, this government, our government, is trying to do is take away our right to vote.”

The actor accused Trump and his allies of using “every trick in the book” to undermine voting rights, warning that the administration was pushing measures that could make it harder for Americans to cast ballots.

“They’re trying every trick in the book, and the Constitution be damned,” De Niro said, staring directly into the camera. “You see what they’re trying to pull, right?”

He went on to claim the administration was trying to “nationalize elections,” interfere with state voter rolls, force voters to re-register with original documents, and put federal forces “on the streets to intimidate voters.”

De Niro also raised the possibility that Trump could use what he called a “phony emergency” as an excuse to disrupt elections, while attacking proposals involving mail-in voting, voting machines, and other election procedures.

Trump’s supporters have often dismissed De Niro’s outbursts as Hollywood grandstanding, but the actor has not backed down. If anything, he has grown more direct, more furious, and more willing to use any platform he has to hammer the former reality star turned commander-in-chief.

Colbert, meanwhile, has also spent years making Trump one of his favorite targets. His late-night monologues became a nightly destination for viewers who wanted comedy served with a heavy dose of political outrage.

That made De Niro’s appearance on one of Colbert’s final episodes feel especially fitting.

As The Late Show moves toward its ending, De Niro’s Epstein files joke gave the audience one more viral anti-Trump moment — and reminded viewers that even in a lighthearted celebrity segment, the politics of the moment are never far from the surface.

For Trump critics, it was a punchline with a point.

For Trump loyalists, it was just another Hollywood attack.

But for the laughing crowd inside Colbert’s studio, De Niro’s message landed exactly where he aimed it.