Robert De Niro makes case for a world which has not heard about Trump

Veteran actor Robert De Niro took a jibe at President Donald Trump at the closing of Tribeca Film Festival while faux proposing the script for a film set in a world where he doesn't exist.

According to USA Today, the actor and co-founder of the movie gala was speaking on the closing night premiere of The Beatles-inspired movie "Yesterday" over the weekend.

"The world wakes up and has never heard of The Beatles. It made me sad but it gave me an idea for another film, one in which the world wakes up and has never heard of Trump. That would be a film that would make us all really happy," De Niro told the crowd before the screening began.

"Yesterday", directed by Danny Boyle, follows Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) who awakes from a blackout to discover he is the only person to know the music by legendary rock band The Beatles.

De Niro has been consistent in his attacks against Trump.

Last month, in an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", he called the president a "wannabe gangster".

An earlier criticism by De Niro elicited a response from Trump, wherein he called the actor "a very low IQ individual" on Twitter.

De Niro has also called the president a "racist", "white supremacist" and drew comparisons between him and Hitler in a previous interview.