Trump rips ‘mental midget,’ ‘total loser’ Robert De Niro
You talkin’ about me? You talkin’ about me?
Former President Donald Trump raged against Robert De Niro after the Oscar-winning actor used an award speech last month to bash the Republican presidential front-runner.
On Sunday evening, the 77-year-old Trump mocked the 80-year-old thespian, “whose acting talents have greatly diminished,” for using “a teleprompter for his foul and disgusting language, so disrespectful to our Country.
“He has become unwatchable,” the former president added on Truth Social, adding that De Niro “should focus on his life, which is a mess, rather than the lives of others. He has become a total loser, as the World watches, waits, and laughs!”
Trump then went back for more Monday morning, writing: “Robert De Niro is a ‘mental midget’ whose mind is shot, and whose life is a total train wreck. Very much like Crooked Joe Biden, he can’t put two sentences together. The good news is that this crude and very stupid ‘animal’ has lost all credibility!”
De Niro, who won Academy Awards for his roles in “The Godfather Part II” and “Raging Bull,” tore into Trump at the Nov. 27 Gotham Awards after accusing organizers of editing his speech to cut out remarks trashing the 45th president.
“The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out, I didn’t know about it. And I want to read it,” De Niro said before pulling out his phone and reading his remarks as prepared for delivery.
“History isn’t history anymore,” De Niro complained. “Truth is not truth. Even facts are being replaced by alternative facts and driven by conspiracy theories and ugliness.”
“Lying has become just another tool in the charlatan’s arsenal,” De Niro went on. “The former president lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office, and he’s keeping up the pace in his current campaign of retribution. But with all his lies, he can’t hide his soul.”
De Niro, who has long been a staunch Trump critic, further panned the former president, saying he “attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature, and shows disrespect, for example, by using ‘Pocahontas’ as a slur.”
The actor made a habit of criticizing Trump during the former president’s first term in office.
During the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards, the star lambasted Trump for his “abuse of power.”
“There’s right and there’s wrong. And there’s common sense and there’s abuse of power,” De Niro said at the time. “And as a citizen, I have as much right as anybody — an actor, an athlete, a musician, anybody else — to voice my opinion. And if I have a bigger voice because of my situation, I’m going to use it whenever I see a blatant abuse of power. And that’s all I’m gonna say about that tonight.”
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