Former President Donald Trump responded to actor Robert De Niro’s recent criticism with a strong rebuttal. De Niro, who has been a vocal critic of Trump for a long time, went on a harsh rant against the former president during an interview with Bill Maher. Trump did not hold back in his response.
De Niro’s scathing criticism of Trump during his appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher became a hot topic on social media over the weekend.
That rant was where De Niro called Trump a “total monster” and “a mean, nasty, hateful person.” He also called Trump a “sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist” and said he was “dangerous” and would set up a regime that would do things like shut down Maher’s show and hunt De Niro down.
De Niro expressed his concern about the outcome of the election, stating, “If he is, he wins the election, he — You won’t be on this show anymore. He’ll come looking for me… There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine.”
On the Trump response scale, this post barely qualifies as a response. It seems that Trump intended to downplay the significance of De Niro by not giving a substantial response. However, it’s clear that he couldn’t resist responding in some way.
De Niro’s takedown can be observed in the clip from Real Time With Bill Maher.
Trump’s reaction level for this post is “barely” responding at all, which is probably what he meant to do to make De Niro seem less important, but he couldn’t help himself and had to respond anyway.
