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riversedge

(80,301 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:55 PM 8 hrs ago

BREAKING: Trump threatens to DEPORT Robert De Niro in unhinged tirade after State of the Union.


whatever marbles trumpy had left in his pea brain, are now shattered!!



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BREAKING: Trump threatens to DEPORT Robert De Niro in unhinged tirade after State of the Union.

In a late-night meltdown that stunned even longtime observers, President Donald Trump launched a furious attack on Hollywood icon Robert De Niro — and floated the idea of deporting him.

Yes. Deporting him. An American citizen.

After facing heckling during his State of the Union address, Trump took to Truth Social to unload on critics, lumping De Niro in with Democratic lawmakers Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and calling the Oscar-winning actor “sick,” “demented,” and “seriously CRIMINAL.” He then suggested De Niro and others should “get on a boat” and leave the country.

Let’s pause there.

Robert De Niro — born in Manhattan, raised in New York City, one of the most celebrated American actors of all time — was just threatened with exile by a sitting president for criticizing him.

Trump mocked De Niro for becoming emotional and claimed some of the actor’s statements were “seriously criminal,” though he offered no evidence of any crime. Instead, the post read like a stream-of-consciousness rant, filled with insults, name-calling, and baseless accusations.

This wasn’t policy. It wasn’t debate. It was pure grievance politics.

And the target wasn’t some anonymous online critic — it was a Hollywood legend who has spent decades shaping American culture.

Trump’s comments follow a familiar pattern: when challenged, escalate. When criticized, threaten. From attacking members of Congress to now fantasizing about deporting a U.S.-born actor, the rhetoric keeps getting darker.

Legal experts have long warned that labeling political criticism as “criminal” is a dangerous line to cross. Free speech doesn’t disappear because it hurts the president’s feelings. But in Trump’s world, dissent equals disloyalty.

The irony? De Niro’s “crime” appears to be publicly opposing Trump’s policies.

That’s not criminal. That’s democracy.

And if speaking out against power now earns you a ticket “on a boat,” the question isn’t what De Niro did wrong. It’s how far this rhetoric is willing to go.




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BREAKING: Trump threatens to DEPORT Robert De Niro in unhinged tirade after State of the Union. (Original Post) riversedge 8 hrs ago OP
I LOVES ME SOME BOBBY DE NIRO Skittles 8 hrs ago #1
wait a sec DoBW 7 hrs ago #16
heh Skittles 7 hrs ago #19
That's what I was thinking! BidenRocks 7 hrs ago #20
Now THIS tells a story about just where we are at in America bluestarone 8 hrs ago #2
PLEASE tell me no one ACTUALLY B.See 8 hrs ago #10
Well, we DID know that, BUT bluestarone 7 hrs ago #17
Well, you don't think all those concentration camps he's building slightlv 5 hrs ago #43
Arguably the biggest asshole Disaffected 8 hrs ago #3
;-{)....... Goonch 8 hrs ago #4
DeNiro should sue the heck out of TSF for this threat...and Bob should continue speaking out... wcmagumba 8 hrs ago #5
I was surprised to see canetoad 8 hrs ago #6
He really does PatSeg 7 hrs ago #24
Yeah, it's uncanny. I hope that he's not as evil as his shitty father. Dave Bowman 6 hrs ago #31
Keep hoping Deuxcents 4 hrs ago #51
Sick BlueWaveNeverEnd 8 hrs ago #7
Why is whatever garbage this toddler spews from his mouth reported by the MSM? Tim S 8 hrs ago #8
I don't think his ridiculous rants should be ignored PatSeg 7 hrs ago #26
Then they all need to make sure to start the headline with "Unhinged President Trump......" mdbl 6 hrs ago #36
Normal people know what unhinged behavior PatSeg 5 hrs ago #45
I was speaking for the misinformed mdbl 5 hrs ago #46
Yes, that's a good point PatSeg 5 hrs ago #48
Wht isnt DonOLD Rump, the garbage toddler being deported to where his father or mother born ???? Trueblue1968 6 hrs ago #34
Because neither Scotland nor Germany would take him. wnylib 5 hrs ago #49
Not that it matters, but De Niro's family has been Americans longer than The Dotard. RockRaven 8 hrs ago #9
Remember that the Trump grandfather was stripped of his Bavarian citizenship. Old Terp 7 hrs ago #15
Interesting NoNameGranny 5 hrs ago #42
What he meant to say is he will banish him Buddyzbuddy 7 hrs ago #11
a man's got to know his limitations Tetrachloride 7 hrs ago #12
Robert De Niro lives rent-free in F47's brain oysterpoint 7 hrs ago #13
De Niro is a fellow New Yorker who is loved by New Yorkers, and who made Gaugamela 7 hrs ago #14
Good BaronChocula 7 hrs ago #18
DONALD TRUMP YoshidaYui 7 hrs ago #21
DarnOld Junk Dump Mr.Bee 7 hrs ago #25
Taxi Driver BidenRocks 7 hrs ago #22
Damn, I thought that was The Onion PatSeg 7 hrs ago #23
DeNiro is 82 years of age. mysteryowl 7 hrs ago #27
77 million dirtbag Americans voted for this fucking imbecile. n/t flvegan 7 hrs ago #28
Careful, Donnie.... paleotn 7 hrs ago #29
DeNiro got under his skin.............................ha,ha,ha,ha turbinetree 7 hrs ago #30
That putrid swine is so insecure and jealous. Dave Bowman 6 hrs ago #32
"Trump And The Pathology of Projection." Textbook, 2035. ColoringFool 6 hrs ago #33
Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal' LetMyPeopleVote 6 hrs ago #35
Trump sometimes reminds me of Mblaze 6 hrs ago #37
Dangerous Cirsium 6 hrs ago #38
Oh dear JustAnotherGen 5 hrs ago #39
Just keep talking Donny the Trump Train is gonna hop right back onto the tracks. Botany 5 hrs ago #40
Where would he deport him to? The Bronx? Vinca 5 hrs ago #41
That's my question..deport him where and why? How do you deport someone who was born here? Deuxcents 4 hrs ago #52
His handlers gave him an extra dose of uppers to get him through his 2 hour tirade so... llmart 5 hrs ago #44
I can't wait for the cartoons! Abolishinist 5 hrs ago #47
Pathetic. Hugin 4 hrs ago #50
Deport DeNiro? To Corleone? Alephy 4 hrs ago #53
K&R spanone 3 hrs ago #54

BidenRocks

(3,061 posts)
20. That's what I was thinking!
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:01 PM
7 hrs ago

Come and get me dipshit. Me and you! 42nd St.
High noon!

bluestarone

(21,896 posts)
2. Now THIS tells a story about just where we are at in America
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:00 PM
8 hrs ago

TSF would KILL, RAPE, ASSAULT, DEPORT any American that disagrees with this motherfucker!! IMPEACH NOW!

B.See

(8,174 posts)
10. PLEASE tell me no one ACTUALLY
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:34 PM
8 hrs ago

thought he'd stop at immigrants... did we??

REMEMBER::

he... they... are capable of anything... no low too low.

bluestarone

(21,896 posts)
17. Well, we DID know that, BUT
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:50 PM
7 hrs ago

In broad daylight with his own words tells Americans what he's capable of doing SHOULD, i repeat SHOULD get Americans as pissed off as i am right now.

slightlv

(7,648 posts)
43. Well, you don't think all those concentration camps he's building
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:50 PM
5 hrs ago

are actually to hold deportees, do you? No... ala Hitler, he's coming for ALL of US.

wcmagumba

(5,945 posts)
5. DeNiro should sue the heck out of TSF for this threat...and Bob should continue speaking out...
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:09 PM
8 hrs ago

Maybe some other celebrities and others of high profile will speak out with support for DeNiro and opposition to t-rump...

canetoad

(20,570 posts)
6. I was surprised to see
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:10 PM
8 hrs ago

Anchor baby Barron in a recent pic. He actually looks more like tsf every day.

Tim S

(133 posts)
8. Why is whatever garbage this toddler spews from his mouth reported by the MSM?
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:17 PM
8 hrs ago

He’s just trolling and the “news” amplifies it for free. They spread his manure far and wide until we are *forced* to smell it. Just ignore the toddler rants already.

PatSeg

(52,829 posts)
26. I don't think his ridiculous rants should be ignored
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:14 PM
7 hrs ago

One of the problems that we have is the fact that the media isn't focusing enough on how unhinged and outrageous he is. Essentially that normalizes him.

mdbl

(8,433 posts)
36. Then they all need to make sure to start the headline with "Unhinged President Trump......"
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:16 PM
6 hrs ago

Otherwise, they are just acting like it's normal to report his bullshit.

PatSeg

(52,829 posts)
45. Normal people know what unhinged behavior
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:56 PM
5 hrs ago

looks like and nothing he does should be ignored. There is too much at stake right now and I don't want to wait to read this stuff in a book a few years from now.

I'm exhausted and I would like to just shut it all out, but I know we can't stick our heads in the sand. That is how authoritarian leaders take over.

mdbl

(8,433 posts)
46. I was speaking for the misinformed
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:06 PM
5 hrs ago

or the dolts that would put an asshole like Dump back in office.

PatSeg

(52,829 posts)
48. Yes, that's a good point
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:13 PM
5 hrs ago

I don't know what to do about people who are willfully ignorant. It is rather terrifying how many there are and how stubbornly they cling to their misconceptions no matter how much evidence there is to disprove their beliefs. When confronted with irrefutable facts, they just double-down.

Trueblue1968

(19,190 posts)
34. Wht isnt DonOLD Rump, the garbage toddler being deported to where his father or mother born ????
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:10 PM
6 hrs ago

RockRaven

(19,037 posts)
9. Not that it matters, but De Niro's family has been Americans longer than The Dotard.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:30 PM
8 hrs ago

Unlike The Dotard, whose mother was an immigrant, De Niro's mother was born here to citizen parents.

Unlike The Dotard, whose paternal grandparents were immigrants, De Niro's paternal grandparents were both born here to citizen parents.

Old Terp

(487 posts)
15. Remember that the Trump grandfather was stripped of his Bavarian citizenship.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:44 PM
7 hrs ago

If I recall correctly it was for avoiding military service and not paying taxes.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,398 posts)
11. What he meant to say is he will banish him
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:40 PM
7 hrs ago

to the "cornfield" because he's been a bad man, a very bad man.

What a dope we have in our now dilapidated
Whitehouse.

oysterpoint

(18 posts)
13. Robert De Niro lives rent-free in F47's brain
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:41 PM
7 hrs ago

Saw that De Niro was the final speaker at the "State of the Swamp" event which paralleled the SOTU. Probably what sent F47 looking for ketchup...

Worth a look:
https://www.defiance.news/p/state-of-the-swamp-a-night-of-defiance?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&timestamp=15773.2
(His intro starts near the end, at about the 4:19:50 mark)

Gaugamela

(3,430 posts)
14. De Niro is a fellow New Yorker who is loved by New Yorkers, and who made
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:43 PM
7 hrs ago

a career of playing seriously menacing tough guys and mobsters, among other roles. In real life he has the confidence to express decency and integrity with intelligence and compassion. Of course Donny is triggered.

Mr.Bee

(1,766 posts)
25. DarnOld Junk Dump
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:14 PM
7 hrs ago

should be exiled, his assets liquidated to repay the American people everything he has stolen from them!

BidenRocks

(3,061 posts)
22. Taxi Driver
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:06 PM
7 hrs ago

Didn't that have a very young Jodie Foster playing a hooker?
This should be chumps favorite movie!

mysteryowl

(9,108 posts)
27. DeNiro is 82 years of age.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:17 PM
7 hrs ago

He has both American and Italian citizenship's.


Leave him alone!!!

paleotn

(21,942 posts)
29. Careful, Donnie....
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:22 PM
7 hrs ago

One of DeNiro's characters, Jimmy Conway, had a habit of making whiny loudmouths "disappear." See Goodfellas. If only.

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,914 posts)
35. Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal'
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:12 PM
6 hrs ago

Robert DeNiro hit trump where it hurts and trump is mad

Trump isn't a serious person.. The shit he gave Obama and trying to steal Bidens win.. Tells you he's unfit for office.. then he attacks members of congress and DeNero.. Resign.

Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal' www.rawstory.com/trump-267533...

Darbyscastle (@darbyscastle.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T18:26:25.429Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675333499/

President Donald Trump raged at a pair of Democratic lawmakers and a Hollywood legend – and threatened to deport them all......

Trump then sneered at actor Robert DeNiro, whose criticism he claimed was worthy of criminal prosecution.

"They 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!" Trump posted. "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," he added. "The good news is that America is now Bigger, Better, Richer, and Stronger than ever before, and it’s driving them absolutely crazy! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP."

Cirsium

(3,748 posts)
38. Dangerous
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:27 PM
6 hrs ago

The man is extremely dangerous. It doesn't matter that he is easy to ridicule. It is a fool's errand to hope he will self-destruct. Don't underestimate the threat. He is deranged and dangerous and has a personal armed paramilitary force. He must be stopped. Midterms may not be sufficient as a strategy.

Botany

(76,916 posts)
40. Just keep talking Donny the Trump Train is gonna hop right back onto the tracks.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:39 PM
5 hrs ago


I have seen this movie before. The lead character goes nuts.

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Deuxcents

(26,338 posts)
52. That's my question..deport him where and why? How do you deport someone who was born here?
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:15 PM
4 hrs ago

llmart

(17,498 posts)
44. His handlers gave him an extra dose of uppers to get him through his 2 hour tirade so...
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:54 PM
5 hrs ago

he still had some drug induced "energy" that he used up on this post. Then he more than likely came down like a bag of rocks, pooped his diaper and fell fast asleep.

Hugin

(37,719 posts)
50. Pathetic.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:50 PM
4 hrs ago

Absolutely the only word to describe anything that the hereditary draft dodger and porcine pedophile does or says.

Why are we subjected to this shit on a daily almost hourly basis?

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