{"id":225200,"date":"2026-02-26T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/donald-trump-slams-sick-and-demented-robert-de-niro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:02:08","slug":"donald-trump-slams-sick-and-demented-robert-de-niro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/donald-trump-slams-sick-and-demented-robert-de-niro\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump slams &#8216;sick and demented&#8217; Robert De Niro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-02-26\" datetime=\"1772114528\" pubdate=\"\">26 February 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has branded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/robert-de-niro\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,robert-de-niro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert De Niro<\/a> &#8220;sick and demented&#8221; in a heated response to the actor calling him &#8220;an idiot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Donald Trump has slammed Robert De Niro<\/p>\n<p>The US president and the Killers of the Flower Moon star have exchanged a number of barbs over the last few years, and after 82-year-old De Niro warned this week that the commander-in-chief would &#8220;ruin the country&#8221;, Trump has now hit back.<\/p>\n<p>Blasting representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who left the Capitol building early during his State of the Union address on Sunday (24.02.26), Trump ranted on his Truth Social platform: \u201cThey had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/robert-de-niro\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,robert-de-niro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert De Niro<\/a>, 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<p>Continuing his rant against De Nero, Trump also hit out at another high-profile critic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/rosie-odonnell\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,rosie-odonnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell<\/a>, who moved to Ireland last year in protest at his re-election but recently confirmed she had been back to the US for a brief visit to her family.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe 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, who is right now in Ireland trying to figure out how to come back into our beautiful United States.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe only difference between De Niro and Rosie is that she is probably somewhat smarter than him, which isn\u2019t saying much.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The good news is that America is now Bigger, Better, Richer, and Stronger than ever before, and it\u2019s driving them absolutely crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump&#8217;s attack came after De Niro expressed his fears for the US under the president&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on The Best People with Nicole Wallace, he said: \u201cHe\u2019s an idiot. We gotta get rid of him. He\u2019s gonna ruin the country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c\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<p>\nHe later added: \u201cPeople have to resist, resist, resist, resist, resist. That\u2019s the only way.<\/p>\n<p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no magic. There\u2019s no nothing \u2013 people are not going to go away, even if Trump dies for some reason by having an illness or something. Parts of that movement are still there, and that\u2019s the scary part. It has to be neutralised by the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd in an emotional speech at the State of the Swamp &#8211; an event in Washington intended as a riposte to the State of the Union address -De Niro described the president as \u201cfailing, flailing and desperate\u201d and said he felt \u201cbetrayed by [his] country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/donald-trump-slams-sick-demented-robert-niro-1438300.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 February 2026 Donald Trump has branded Robert De Niro &#8220;sick and demented&#8221; in a heated response to the actor calling him &#8220;an idiot&#8221;. Donald Trump has slammed Robert De Niro The US president and the Killers of the Flower Moon star have exchanged a number of barbs over the last few years, and after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,1812,2348],"class_list":{"0":"post-225200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-robert-de-niro","10":"tag-rosie-o"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}