Democrats’ counterprogramming to Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address didn’t get nearly the attention as the big event, but the president himself took note.
Trump was irate on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as “lunatics” who should be deported. Omar and Tlaib heckled the president as he delivered his speech in the House chamber.
The president also threw in a few attacks on Robert De Niro, who participated in an event called State of the Swamp at the National Press Club, sponsored by Defiance.org.
There, De Niro told the crowd, “Tragically, we are now in a country of, by and for a handful of dishonest and greedy and cruel authoritarians.”
De Niro said, “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.”
Trump posted on Truth Social that Omar and Tlaib “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! 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.”
De Niro was a critic of Trump in his first term and has continued to speak out in his second. In his speech, he warned that Trump would take steps to try to suppress the vote in the upcoming midterms, and urged participation in the next No Kings protest day on March 28.
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