Amy Poehler spent an hour interviewing Robert De Niro on her Good Hang podcast and closed by thanking him for repeatedly criticizing Donald Trump and addressing the national mood. She said such remarks usually come from younger people, women, and people of color who hold less influence, and that a prominent older figure doing the same is like an adult who stops a guest from wrecking a wedding with a disastrous toast, treating the country as that celebration.

De Niro teared up. She thanked him for backing people without power, fetched tissues, and said few powerful older white men in comparable positions use their standing that way. He called events in the country upsetting and obvious, warned they could recur and shape others, and said people must stay alert, fight, and join others because courage spreads, citing Jason Crowe.