Robert De Niro is the face of the Progressives, arrogant, full of sloganerring claptrap but certainly no education to speak of...and did I mention privileged

Robert De Niro slams Trump, NRA, and half of America. Says Parkland students ‘are the future’

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.^[5] was born on August 17, 1943, in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, New York, the son of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.^[6] He is of Irish and Italian descent on his father's side,^[7] while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry.^[8] De Niro's parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, divorced when he was two years old after his father announced that he was gay.^[9] De Niro was raised by his mother in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy areas of Manhattan. His father lived within walking distance and De Niro spent much time with him as he grew up.^[10] His mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, while his father had been a lapsed Catholic since the age of 12.^[9][11] Against his parents' wishes, his grandparents had him secretly baptized into the Catholic Church while he was staying with them during his parents' divorce.^[9][11]

De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade. He then went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the private upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and eighth grades.^[12] He was accepted into the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, but only attended for a short time before transferring to a public junior high school.^[13] De Niro began high school at the private McBurney School^[14] and later attended the private Rhodes Preparatory School,^[15] although he graduated from neither.^[16] Nicknamed "Bobby Milk" for his pallor, De Niro hung out with a group of street kids as a youth in Little Italy, some of whom have remained his lifelong friends.^[17] His stage debut was at age 10, when he played the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz.^[18][19] Along with finding relief from shyness through performing, he was also fixated by cinema, and he dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue acting.^[17] He studied acting at HB Studio, the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio.^[16]