For Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback show on ABC Tuesday night, Hollywood legend Robert De Niro joined the late-night host to offer a brutal parody of what some political commentators have long identified as Donald Trump’s “gangster” style of being president.

Following Kimmel’s opening monologue, a forceful, sometimes wry but mostly sober and emotional defense of free speech, he did a sketch with De Niro, a vocal critic of Trump who channeled some of his “Goodfellas” and “The Irishman” experience to play what appeared to be an mob-underboss-style chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

De Niro’s tough-talking character was supposed to be FCC Chair Brendan Carr, though his character refused to give his name while saying he had been appointed by “Sir Trump,” who he used to “do some

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