Robert De Niro fears Donald Trump will serve as an inspiration for future would-be despots who will get much further and do more damage than the president.

The actor has unloaded once again on the president in a sweeping interview with The Guardian in which he also referred to the commander in chief as a real racist and white supremacist.

If he had his way, wed wind up in a very bad state in this country, he said. I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and other dictators and despots look funny.

De Niro, who has previously referred to Trump as a scumbag and a pig, added that it bothers him that people will see the president as an example to follow.

But theyll be a lot smarter and have many more colors to their personality and be more mercurial and become someone with the same values as he has but able to get much further and do more damage as a despot, he said. Thats my worry. There are people who look up to him: I want to be like him. But theyll do it much better and theyll be more smart about it.