Robert de Niro swears on Trump? No, viral video comes from the Tony Awards 2018

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The 81-year-old actor Robert de Niro swears by US President Donald Trump while presenting himself at the 97^TH Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 2 (Sunday).

The archived versions of the contributions can be seen here and here.

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Newsschecker noticed that the banner read Tony Awards in the background, which indicates that the incident does not come from the Oscar ceremonies. The Tony Awards are the New York theater industry that corresponds to the Oscars.

Then we carried out a keyword search for “Robert de Niro Trump Trump Oscars”, which from June 2018 led us to several news reports, which said that De Niro received a standing ovation at the Tony Awards in New York for the attack on the president. “De Niro appeared on stage in the New York Radio City Music Hall:” … When the applauding audience rose to the feet, he continued: 'It was no longer down with Trump …' He then continued with an apparently prepared introduction of Bruce Springsteen. Although the AS-Live show was broadcast, CBS had time to convey the F-word for the television audience, and thought of around six million, ”read a Guardian report on June 11, 2018 and shared a video.

A contribution from June 11, 2018 by NBC News, which shares a video of the moment, can be seen here. Similar reports are to be confirmed here and here and here that the viral video does not come from the Oscars 2025.