'Seriously CRIMINAL': Donald Trump threatens to deport Robert De Niro
The Oscar winning actor shared his prediction that Donald Trump “will never leave” office. He also attended a counter State Of The Union event during which he said he felt “betrayed by my country”.
Following his State of the Union address, Donald Trump has delivered yet another irate rant on his Truth Social platform, in which he called for some of his opponents to be deported.
These include “lunatics” Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (both Democrats and American citizens), as they heckled Trump as he delivered his speech in the House chamber, and Oscar-winner Robert De Niro – following his impassioned speech prior to the State of the Union address.
De Niro, a longtime and fervent Trump critic, appeared on MS NOW to speak about the current US president, sharing his prediction that Trump “will never leave” office and that it is up to Americans to “get rid of him”.
“He will never leave. We have to make him leave,” said the actor. “He jokes now about nationalizing the elections. He’s not joking. We’ve seen enough already.”
The celebrated actor - and American citizen - also appeared at an event called State of the Swamp at the National Press Club, sponsored by Defiance.org, during which he told the crowd: “Tragically, we are now in a country of, by and for a handful of dishonest and greedy and cruel authoritarians.”
De Niro added: “The bottom line is that I feel betrayed by my country. It doesn’t have to be perfect but it does need to return to the values that gave us our strength and humanity.”
Trump was not best pleased, posting that Omar and Tlaib “should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying - some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!”
He continued, regarding De Niro: “When I watched him break down in tears last night, much like a child would do, I realized that he may be even sicker than Crazy Rosie O’Donnell, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States. The only difference between De Niro and Rosie is that she is probably somewhat smarter than him, which isn’t saying much.”
Last year, Trump threatened to revoke the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government.
Following his re-election, O’Donnell moved to Ireland.
Prior to Trump’s State of the Union address, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that six in 10 American think that Trump has become erratic as he ages, with 61 per cent of respondents (89 per cent of Democrats, 30 per cent of Republicans and 64 per cent of independents) saying they would describe Trump as having "become erratic with age."
The poll also showed that most Americans think the US’ political leadership is too old, with 79 per cent of respondents agreeing with the statement that "elected officials in Washington, D.C., are too old to represent most Americans."
The average age in the US Senate is 64, and 58 in the US House of Representatives.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle said the poll results were examples of "fake and desperate narratives."
However, according to another recent poll by Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos, only 39 per cent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the job of president.
'Make an example of this guy': MAGA pundit
wants vengeance on De Niro
Donald Trump and Robert De Niro (Images via Shutterstock)
Actor Robert De Niro keeps criticizing President Donald Trump — and now pro-Trump commentator Bill O’Reilly wants Trump to “make an example” of the two-time Oscar-winning thespian.
In response to De Niro telling MS NOW’s Nicole Wallace that if Trump refuses to leave office after the end of his term “we have to make him leave,” O’Reilly insisted without evidence in his podcast that De Niro was actually threatening the president’s life.
“What do you mean by that?” O’Reilly asked. “He’s elected. Seventy-seven million people voted for him. What’s ‘we got to get rid of him’? Are you talking about impeachment? What are you talking about?”
After saying it is illegal to “knowingly and willfully” threaten the president, O’Reilly urged Trump to “make an example of this guy,” adding De Niro “better have a lawyer” because he believes the Secret Service should interrogate him.
O’Reilly anti-De Niro rant comes mere days after Trump’s own anti-De Niro rant. While criticizing two progressive Democrats who shouted “You have killed Americans!” at him during his State of the Union address, Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Trump lumped them in with De Niro and former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell (another frequent Trump critic).
“When you watch Low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as they screamed uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, such an important and beautiful event, they had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. After saying “they are Crooked and Corrupt Politicians” and “we should send them back from where they came — as fast as possible,” he added they “should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!”
It is unclear whether O’Reilly was aware of Trump’s previous threat against De Niro’s First Amendment rights when he called for Trump to “make an example of him.”
In his social media post, Trump added “When I watched him break down in tears last night, much like a child would do, I realized that he may be even sicker than Crazy Rosie O’Donnell, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States.”
He concluded, “The only difference between De Niro and Rosie is that she is probably somewhat smarter than him, which isn’t saying much. The good news is that America is now Bigger, Better, Richer, and Stronger than ever before, and it’s driving them absolutely crazy!”
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in France last year, De Niro said that in America “we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted. That affects all of us here, because art is the crucible that brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat.”
He added, “That’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists. America’s philistine president ha[s] had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions [the Kennedy Center]," he continued while the crowd applauded. "He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education.”
De Niro was similarly scathing toward Trump in 2023, telling The Guardian that he channeled Trump’s character when playing William Hale, the real-life early 20th century Oklahoma crime boss convicted of cattle rustling, contract killings and insurance fraud during the Osage Indian murders. De Niro depicted Hale in director Martin Scorsese’s award-winning epic film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The Guardian wrote that "at a press conference earlier in the day, De Niro had suggested that Hale's kind of immorality – his entitlement and greed, his racism, his disregard for anyone outside his own bloodline, all of it wrapped up in a kindly aspect – is easy to spot in contemporary politics, in what was a not-so-veiled swing at Trump and a broader swipe at members of the Republican party, accessories to the chaos."
When it comes to the question of whether the First Amendment protects speech that could be construed loosely as threatening to the president, the Supreme Court settled that matter in the 2015 Supreme Court case Elonis v. United States, which revolved around the 2007 Whitest Kids U Know sketch “It’s Illegal to Say…” In that sketch comedian Trevor Moore repeatedly said “I want to kill the President of the United States of America” in various forms before then explaining for the audience that those phrasings were all illegal. After a man named Anthony Douglas Elonis repurposed the sketch to target his wife, the constitutionality of even implying a threat regardless of the context appeared before the Supreme Court, which reversed Elonis’ conviction by 8-to-1.
“As far as making a big splash, I don’t think you can beat going to the Supreme Court,” Moore told Salon about the case in 2020.
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