{"id":318646,"date":"2026-02-26T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:18:07","slug":"donald-trump-attacks-robert-de-niro-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318646\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump attacks Robert De Niro \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro<\/a>, in which he called the president \u201can idiot\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday\u2019s episode of The Best People with Nicole Wallace, De Niro, who has long criticised the politics, morals and competence of Trump, said: \u201cHe\u2019s an idiot. We gotta get rid of him. He\u2019s gonna ruin the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Niro added:\u201d\u200aI don\u2019t want everybody going around with their Maga, the American flags, like they\u2019re the only ones. We are Americans too.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor then took headline billing at the State of the Swamp, a Washington event intended as a riposte to Trump\u2019s State of the Union address on Tuesday<\/a>. In his emotional speech, De Niro he described the president as \u201cfailing, flailing and desperate\u201d and said he felt \u201cbetrayed by my country\u201d.<\/p>\n

Writing at length on Truth Social on Wednesday, the Trump first proposed deporting representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who left the Capitol building early on Tuesday after shouting him down during his speech.<\/p>\n

Trump called them \u201cLow IQ\u201d, claiming they \u201cscreamed uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, such an important and beautiful event\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, lunatics, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalised,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey 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 \u2013 some of which is seriously criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump continued: \u201cWhen I watched him break down in tears last night, much like a child would do, I realised that he may be even sicker than crazy Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/a>, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump derangement syndrome\u201d is a phrase the president has frequently used to describe his political opponents. His suggestion this was the cause of the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele<\/a>, caused considerable backlash.<\/p>\n

Shortly before Trump\u2019s re-election in 2024, De Niro told HBO Max\u2019s Chris Wallace that he felt Trump and his allies were \u201cnot real Republicans\u201d and called him \u201ca jerk, an idiot \u2026 and a clown\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although not a particular fan of Kamala Harris<\/a>, De Niro said that she was \u201cat least \u2026 sensitive to the condition of the country, the people\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019ll make mistakes,\u201d he continued. \u201cOf course, everybody does, but we need somebody with the right intentions, this guy does not have the right intentions, and everybody knows that. It\u2019s insanity. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier that year, the US National Association of Broadcasters rescinded a leadership award it had been due to present to De Niro after the actor spoke out against Trump outside the latter\u2019s criminal trial in New York. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro, in which he called the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,48807,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-318646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-robert-de-niro","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}