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Robert De Niro didn\u2019t just criticize Donald Trump this time \u2013 he declared war. The veteran actor, voice shaking with fury, warned that Trump would \u201cruin the country\u201d and urged Americans to \u201ctake to the streets\u201d to take it back. Hours later, Trump fired back with a blistering, deeply personal attack that stunned even hardened political watc\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n
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De Niro\u2019s latest broadside against Trump wasn\u2019t a Hollywood soundbite; it was a full-throated political rallying cry. On a podcast and later at his \u201cState of the Swamp\u201d event, he spoke less like a movie star and more like a man afraid of losing the country he grew up believing in. He invoked the Constitution, accountability, and a vision of America where patriotism isn\u2019t owned by one slogan or one color of hat, and where love of country includes the courage to protest its leaders.<\/p>\n
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Trump\u2019s response on Truth Social turned the clash into a spectacle of mutual contempt. He didn\u2019t just dismiss De Niro as \u201cTrump Deranged\u201d with a \u201cLow IQ\u201d; he lumped him together with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, portraying them all as enemies who should be sent away. What emerged was not a policy debate, but a raw portrait of a nation split into tribes, trading insults instead of arguments\u2014each side convinced it is fighting to save America from the oth<\/p>\n
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