Hollywood icon Robert De Niro launched a series of blistering attacks against President Donald Trump this week – remarks that prompted Trump to suggest De Niro should be deported and ignited outrage among many MAGA supporters.
“Giant acting talent. But a sad, angry little man,” wrote Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in a social media post on X Wednesday in response to De Niro’s comments.
De Niro sat down with MS NOW’s Nicole Wallace on Sunday and delivered an emotional plea to Americans to continue resisting Trump, Yahoo Entertainment reported. And on Tuesday, he delivered even more rebukes of the president during an event held to counter the State of the Union address.
“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,” De Niro said at the event on Tuesday.
“If you want our leaders to be accountable, if you’re devoted to the Constitution and the rule of law, if you want the United States of America to be worthy of your love, be ready to take to the streets together, and we will take our country back.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, De Niro’s remarks were met with scorn among many self-proclaimed MAGA followers.
“This guy is pathetic,” wrote X user “Joe Macinnis,” a frequent political commentator whose bio reads “absolute MAGA FOREVER,” to their more than 11,000 followers. “He got [Trump Derangement Syndrome].”
“WASHED UP ACTOR,” wrote another, X user “Dante Rossi,” another conservative political commentator and self-proclaimed MAGA follower, to their more than 21,000 followers.
De Niro has frequently been the target of MAGA scorn for his outspoken views on Trump, including from Trump’s own White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who last year called De Niro a “sad, broken old man.”