'Robert De Niro just delivered a SPECTACULAR takedown of Trump's America'

[Joinfortmill]

https://substack.com/@rawstory/note/c-219738610

WOW: Legendary actor Robert De Niro just delivered a SPECTACULAR takedown of Trump’s America: “Can you love a country where our neighbors are shot down in the streets by masked government thugs? Can you love a country that denies healthcare for tens of millions of our fellow citizens? Can you love a country that trashes our economy to give tax breaks to its billionaire cronies? Can you love a country that pardons violent criminals and protects pedophiles? I feel betrayed by my country. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to return to the values that gave us our strength and humanity.” Share this widely!

My words: Your turn, Trumpy.

[SheltieLover]

1. Kick

[malaise]

2. K & R

For visibility

[Brother Buzz]

3. Woah, a month ago, he delivered another powerful speech. It was so good, I discounted it as AI

This one is the real deal, so I need to rethink the other one

I’m happy to have his voice speaking to the truth

[maveric]

4. Has trump called him a "third rate" actor yet?

They like using that term to denigrate talented people who call him out on his bullshit.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

[hamsterjill]

6. Guts!

I love it! Time for guts!!! Time for this type of comeback. Time to fight the fuck back!

[gfarber]

7. Robert Comments

There once was a voice from the stage,
Whose fury leapt straight from the page,
De Niro asked with a cry,
“How can we stand by
While fear is the mood of the age?”

He thundered of masks in the night,
Of neighbors struck down out of sight,
“Can love truly grow
When dread’s all we sow,
And power escapes from what’s right?”

He spoke of the sick turned away,
Of millions with no healing way,
“What nation denies
Compassion,” he cries,
“Then claims it is righteous and free?”

He warned of an economy bent,
On gifts for the lavishly spent,
“While workers all strain,
The few rake in gain—
Is this what our founders had meant?”

“I’m hurt,” said the voice, “and betrayed,
By bargains in backrooms now made.
Not perfect we’ll be,
But strong we are—if we
Let decency never quite fade.”

© 2026 Glen Farber. All Rights Reserved.

[Joinfortmill]

23. Awesome!

[JohnnyRingo]

8. I could almost write the script for Sean Hannity.

"Robert De Niro doesn't know how anyone can love America", followed by all the many ways Sean thinks America is the "hottest" country on the planet and DeNiro can leave if he doesn't like it. Rinse, lather, repeat.

I'm really getting sick of their shit.

[slightlv]

10. They've been telling us dirty, hippy freaks

to "love it or leave it" for decades. I say we start yelling it back to them. THEY'RE the ones completely changing the country from a democracy to an autocratic fascist government. Start telling them to love our country... our ethics and morals... or leave for Russia or Hungary or Somalia or Iran. Those countries are much more to their liking... although I almost left Hungary out of the statement since I think Orban is either out or on his way out.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. Good comeback 👏

[BaronChocula]

11. It's not "the country"

It's republicans who represent white men devoted to the preservation of white male privilege, backed up by the cowards who give them the benefit of the doubt at every turn.

[Wednesdays]

12. "Your turn, Trumpy."

Trumpy's response: "Deport Robert De Nero!"

Off with his head. The First Amendment be damned.

[LilElf70]

13. Sadly, Trump

could care less. Even more less when he finds out these were words that came from De Niro. They hate each other.

[popsdenver]

14. DeNiro

just moved himself to the top of the infamous Trump Revenge List..........

maybe, just maybe, at SOME POINT, we will hear the same kind of rhetoric from the HUNDREDS of Dem House and Senate members?

[patphil]

15. I think he should have used the word government instead of country.

This is a time when we must love our country more than ever, while rejecting the republican leadership that obviously doesn't love our country at all.
For them it's all about money, power, and control.

Greed Over People.

[GiqueCee]

17. My thought exactly...

... but an embarrassing percentage of the populace is fine with Trump's treachery.

[usaf-vet]

16. Can you love a country that denies healthcare to a USAF medic who served four years and was honorably discharged?

I followed every order I was ever given.

From 1965–1969, I served as a USAF medic and surgical scrub tech. I stood in operating rooms where wounded Vietnam soldiers arrived, sometimes less than a week from the battlefield.

We debrided wounds.
We removed infected tissue.
We prepared young men for the loss of limbs.
We assisted in surgeries that would determine whether they would walk again — or learn to live with prosthetics.

Many of those wounded were grateful to be treated in hospitals closer to home, where their families could visit — instead of being shipped thousands of miles away to a Navy facility in Washington, D.C.

I remember sitting in front of a recruiter in my hometown. He told me:

“Don’t worry about healthcare. You will always be able to get VA healthcare.”

I believed him.

Thousands of us did exactly what we were trained to do — where we were told to go to school, and where we were ordered to serve.

But years later, I was told I do not qualify for VA healthcare.

Why?

Because I did not serve “in country.”

In my case, that meant I did not physically set foot in Vietnam.

Apparently, serving in operating rooms treating the wounded from that war does not count.

I am now 78 years old. My wife and I face health issues like most people our age. Yes, Medicare helps now. But before I turned 65, we paid out of pocket.

More than once, I have gone to my local VA office. Each time, I heard the same words:

“Sorry. You don’t qualify.”

That is not what the surgeons I assisted believed.

When we stood over wounded servicemen on those operating tables, no one questioned whether I was qualified to serve.

No one asked whether I had been “in country.”

They only knew I was there, doing the job I was trained and ordered to do — helping save lives and restore shattered bodies.

So I ask again:

Can you love a country that tells a medic who served honorably that his service doesn’t count? And he doesn't qualify for VA healthcare. As promised

[Seinan Sensei]

30. Four years USAF and honorable discharge?

Were you considered regular active duty?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal'

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."

[Cherrycheeks]

31. He broke down because.

He wants to beat his ass!😡

[MiHale]

19. KnR...

[58Sunliner]

20. Kick and rec!!!

[zok21]

21. Well said De Niro. Well said.

[Permanut]

22. Kickety Reckity.

[Skittles]

24. I LOVES ME SOME BOBBY DE NIRO

I've had a lifelong crush on that New Yawk bad boy

[SunSeeker]

25. It's not our country doing this, it's the Trump administration.

The majority of our country's people oppose Trump and the majority of our country's voters, in 2016, 2020 AND 2024, did not vote for Trump.

[Joinfortmill]

26. This is a fairly common reference

when referring to a country's government. And, as jarring as it might be, believe me, our country's reputation is in the dumpster. I've traveled a bit, and believe me, the world doesn't see us, the way we see ourselves. But, that is a conversation for another time.

If we're going to criticize people with influence who are on our side, then we have little hope of escaping the fascist fever dream Trump envisions.

[themaguffin]

27. He's great, but Rawstory's over the top clickbaity headlines are not great

Keep in mind, with such language, they are making it clear that they want clicks for money, not for informing.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

[Clouds Passing]

29. Wht Robert said