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riversedge

(80,307 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:55 PM Wednesday

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 Wednesday OP
I LOVES ME SOME BOBBY DE NIRO Skittles Wednesday #1
wait a sec DoBW Wednesday #16
heh Skittles Wednesday #19
That's what I was thinking! BidenRocks Wednesday #20
Now THIS tells a story about just where we are at in America bluestarone Wednesday #2
PLEASE tell me no one ACTUALLY B.See Wednesday #10
Well, we DID know that, BUT bluestarone Wednesday #17
Well, you don't think all those concentration camps he's building slightlv Wednesday #43
Arguably the biggest asshole Disaffected Wednesday #3
;-{)....... Goonch Wednesday #4
DeNiro should sue the heck out of TSF for this threat...and Bob should continue speaking out... wcmagumba Wednesday #5
I was surprised to see canetoad Wednesday #6
He really does PatSeg Wednesday #24
Yeah, it's uncanny. I hope that he's not as evil as his shitty father. Dave Bowman Wednesday #31
Keep hoping Deuxcents Wednesday #51
Don't forget his shitty mother too. How could the product of those two not be evil? Ol Janx Spirit 16 hrs ago #62
That's pretty much what I think. Dave Bowman 2 hrs ago #67
Sick BlueWaveNeverEnd Wednesday #7
Why is whatever garbage this toddler spews from his mouth reported by the MSM? Tim S Wednesday #8
I don't think his ridiculous rants should be ignored PatSeg Wednesday #26
Then they all need to make sure to start the headline with "Unhinged President Trump......" mdbl Wednesday #36
Normal people know what unhinged behavior PatSeg Wednesday #45
I was speaking for the misinformed mdbl Wednesday #46
Yes, that's a good point PatSeg Wednesday #48
Wht isnt DonOLD Rump, the garbage toddler being deported to where his father or mother born ???? Trueblue1968 Wednesday #34
Because neither Scotland nor Germany would take him. wnylib Wednesday #49
Not that it matters, but De Niro's family has been Americans longer than The Dotard. RockRaven Wednesday #9
Remember that the Trump grandfather was stripped of his Bavarian citizenship. Old Terp Wednesday #15
Interesting NoNameGranny Wednesday #42
What he meant to say is he will banish him Buddyzbuddy Wednesday #11
a man's got to know his limitations Tetrachloride Wednesday #12
Robert De Niro lives rent-free in F47's brain oysterpoint Wednesday #13
De Niro is a fellow New Yorker who is loved by New Yorkers, and who made Gaugamela Wednesday #14
Good BaronChocula Wednesday #18
DONALD TRUMP YoshidaYui Wednesday #21
DarnOld Junk Dump Mr.Bee Wednesday #25
Taxi Driver BidenRocks Wednesday #22
Damn, I thought that was The Onion PatSeg Wednesday #23
DeNiro is 82 years of age. mysteryowl Wednesday #27
77 million dirtbag Americans voted for this fucking imbecile. n/t flvegan Wednesday #28
Careful, Donnie.... paleotn Wednesday #29
DeNiro got under his skin.............................ha,ha,ha,ha turbinetree Wednesday #30
That putrid swine is so insecure and jealous. Dave Bowman Wednesday #32
"Trump And The Pathology of Projection." Textbook, 2035. ColoringFool Wednesday #33
Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal' LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #35
Jeezus Joinfortmill 18 hrs ago #56
Trump sometimes reminds me of Mblaze Wednesday #37
Dangerous Cirsium Wednesday #38
Oh dear JustAnotherGen Wednesday #39
Just keep talking Donny the Trump Train is gonna hop right back onto the tracks. Botany Wednesday #40
Where would he deport him to? The Bronx? Vinca Wednesday #41
That's my question..deport him where and why? How do you deport someone who was born here? Deuxcents Wednesday #52
His handlers gave him an extra dose of uppers to get him through his 2 hour tirade so... llmart Wednesday #44
I can't wait for the cartoons! Abolishinist Wednesday #47
Pathetic. Hugin Wednesday #50
Deport DeNiro? To Corleone? Alephy Wednesday #53
K&R spanone Wednesday #54
Hope Mr. DeNiro has a bodyguard. Joinfortmill 18 hrs ago #55
Vito Corleone bmichaelh 17 hrs ago #57
Trump is... GiqueCee 17 hrs ago #58
Is he still trying to deport Prince Harry, and revoke Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship? Boomerproud 17 hrs ago #59
Threatening a beloved actor is not a good way to make your approval ratings go up. milestogo 17 hrs ago #60
Please remove us from Mr. poopy pants misery. Clouds Passing 16 hrs ago #61
You talking to me...? 617Blue 16 hrs ago #63
Look, TSF said, "They should actually get on a boat..." ECL213 15 hrs ago #64
On second thought, just try it, Dumpy. DeNiro is the real deal, not a fake tough guy with an orange face and dyed hair. Joinfortmill 14 hrs ago #65
Trump is just describing himself Quanto Magnus 12 hrs ago #66

BidenRocks

(3,062 posts)
20. That's what I was thinking!
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:01 PM
Wednesday

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

bluestarone

(21,905 posts)
2. Now THIS tells a story about just where we are at in America
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:00 PM
Wednesday

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

B.See

(8,178 posts)
10. PLEASE tell me no one ACTUALLY
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:34 PM
Wednesday

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

REMEMBER::

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

bluestarone

(21,905 posts)
17. Well, we DID know that, BUT
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:50 PM
Wednesday

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

(7,665 posts)
43. Well, you don't think all those concentration camps he's building
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:50 PM
Wednesday

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

wcmagumba

(5,948 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
Wednesday

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

canetoad

(20,582 posts)
6. I was surprised to see
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:10 PM
Wednesday

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

Ol Janx Spirit

(905 posts)
62. Don't forget his shitty mother too. How could the product of those two not be evil?
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 10:21 AM
16 hrs ago

I guess we can hope that he's been mostly raised by a nanny with morals, but there does not seem to be any evidence of that.

Everything we know so far says he is at least as evil and grifty as his parents....

Tim S

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

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

(52,843 posts)
26. I don't think his ridiculous rants should be ignored
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:14 PM
Wednesday

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

(8,434 posts)
36. Then they all need to make sure to start the headline with "Unhinged President Trump......"
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:16 PM
Wednesday

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

PatSeg

(52,843 posts)
45. Normal people know what unhinged behavior
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:56 PM
Wednesday

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

(8,434 posts)
46. I was speaking for the misinformed
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:06 PM
Wednesday

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

PatSeg

(52,843 posts)
48. Yes, that's a good point
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:13 PM
Wednesday

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
Wednesday

RockRaven

(19,038 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
Wednesday

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
Wednesday

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

Buddyzbuddy

(2,402 posts)
11. What he meant to say is he will banish him
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 06:40 PM
Wednesday

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
Wednesday

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

(3,438 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
Wednesday

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

(1,772 posts)
25. DarnOld Junk Dump
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:14 PM
Wednesday

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

BidenRocks

(3,062 posts)
22. Taxi Driver
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:06 PM
Wednesday

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
Wednesday

He has both American and Italian citizenship's.


Leave him alone!!!

paleotn

(21,945 posts)
29. Careful, Donnie....
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:22 PM
Wednesday

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

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,965 posts)
35. Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal'
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:12 PM
Wednesday

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

(3,771 posts)
38. Dangerous
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:27 PM
Wednesday

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

(76,929 posts)
40. Just keep talking Donny the Trump Train is gonna hop right back onto the tracks.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:39 PM
Wednesday


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

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Deuxcents

(26,355 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
Wednesday

llmart

(17,499 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
Wednesday

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

(37,724 posts)
50. Pathetic.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:50 PM
Wednesday

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?

bmichaelh

(1,128 posts)
57. Vito Corleone
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 08:57 AM
17 hrs ago

Trump likes to style himself as some mobster.

I guess he does not take the advise of Vito Corleone in Godfather Part I.

DeNiro played a younger version of Corleone in Godfather Part II.

"Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are thinking"

GiqueCee

(3,786 posts)
58. Trump is...
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 09:13 AM
17 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Feb 26, 2026, 10:03 AM - Edit history (1)

... a raging psychopath who is determined to make ANY criticism of him or his policies a crime, preferably punishable by death. And please do not forget that Trump runs his mouth about what he wants to do, but it is malignant filth like "Nosferatu" Miller who actually implement Trump's wet dreams of malice and depravity.
And those warehouses they're buying up all over the country? Those won't be used to incarcerate the supposed criminal immigrants they claim are "ruining the blood of our nation", they're going to be filled with Democrats, people like you and me. The entrance might have a motto above it like "Arbeit macht Frei", But there will be no exit, unless it's a garbage chute to a lime pit.
I heard a Senator say, on the day before the election, "Sure, Trump is dangerous, but he's not a danger to democracy!" I suggested that he might want to walk that one back a parsec or two.
This terrorist regime hasn't even hit third gear yet, so if you think, oh, we can ride this out, think again. This is going to be a fight for your very life, and the lives of everyone you care about, so shitcan the complacency and buckle up; it's gonna be a rough ride.

ECL213

(437 posts)
64. Look, TSF said, "They should actually get on a boat..."
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 11:20 AM
15 hrs ago

He didn't say he was going to put them on a boat and DEPORT them.

There is plenty of shit TSF says and does we can criticize without twisting it into something else. Even "Trump Says De Niro and Others should 'Get on a boat' in unhinged tirade after the SOTU" gets the point across that TSF is a big crybaby and can't handle criticism.

This kind of inaccuracy just gives MAGAts the fodder they need to claim we're deranged leftist lunatics.

Joinfortmill

(20,806 posts)
65. On second thought, just try it, Dumpy. DeNiro is the real deal, not a fake tough guy with an orange face and dyed hair.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 11:45 AM
14 hrs ago

Quanto Magnus

(1,324 posts)
66. Trump is just describing himself
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 01:58 PM
12 hrs ago

pretending it the other poerson....

classic projection... and obvious at that

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