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.
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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.
