The Daily Mail reports

Speaking at the Locanda Verde restaurant in the Greenwich Hotel, which he owns, De Niro said: ‘Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?’

A crowd member yelled, ‘No!’, to which De Niro added: ‘Too soon, right?’

At an event in Shreveport, Louisiana Newt Gingrich demanded President Obama apologize for those remarks being that it was for a fundraiser for his re-election campaign