Donald Trump fires back at ‘Wacko Former Actor’ Robert De Niro, who called him a ‘clown’
- US actor Robert De Niro criticised Donald Trump outside his New York hush money trial on Tuesday
- Trump posted a response, calling the two-time Academy Award winner actor ‘small’, ‘pathetic’ and ‘sad’
Donald Trump lashed out at actor Robert De Niro in a middle-of-the-night rant posted to Truth Social.
“I never knew how small, both mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was,” Trump wrote. “Today, De Niro, who suffers from an incurable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, commonly known in the medical community as TDS, was met, outside the Courthouse, with a force far greater than the Radical Left – MAGA.”
Trump’s posting, timestamped 12.46am, was in response to insults the two-time Academy Award winner actor made outside the former US president’s criminal trial in lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
Flanked by two police officers who fought off Trump loyalists at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the 80-year-old actor denounced Trump as “another crappy real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot” and shouted down supporters he called “self-styled patriots” opposed to the democratic process.
“When Trump ran in 2016, it was like a joke,” DeNiro told reporters, calling the former president a “clown” and a “tyrant”.
“We have a second chance, and no one is laughing now. This is the time to stop him.”
If Trump returns to the White House, he said, Americans could see the civil liberties they take for granted evaporate as well as the end of elections.
