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https://substack.com/@rawstory/note/c-219738610WOW: Legendary actor Robert De Niro just delivered a SPECTACULAR takedown of Trumps 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 doesnt 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
(79,268 posts)malaise
(294,917 posts)For visibility
Brother Buzz
(39,805 posts)This one is the real deal, so I need to rethink the other one
Im happy to have his voice speaking to the truth
maveric
(17,032 posts)They like using that term to denigrate talented people who call him out on his bullshit.
2naSalit
(101,644 posts)hamsterjill
(17,321 posts)I love it! Time for guts!!! Time for this type of comeback. Time to fight the fuck back!
gfarber
(242 posts)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 dreads all we sow,
And power escapes from whats 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?
Im hurt, said the voice, and betrayed,
By bargains in backrooms now made.
Not perfect well be,
But strong we areif we
Let decency never quite fade.
© 2026 Glen Farber. All Rights Reserved.
Joinfortmill
(20,806 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,737 posts)I'm really getting sick of their shit.
slightlv
(7,665 posts)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
(15,592 posts)BaronChocula
(4,341 posts)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
(22,221 posts)Trumpy's response: "Deport Robert De Nero!"
Off with his head. The First Amendment be damned.
LilElf70
(1,481 posts)could care less. Even more less when he finds out these were words that came from De Niro. They hate each other.
popsdenver
(2,058 posts)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
(8,908 posts)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
(3,786 posts)... but an embarrassing percentage of the populace is fine with Trump's treachery.
usaf-vet
(7,783 posts)I followed every order I was ever given.
From 19651969, 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:
Dont 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 dont 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 doesnt count? And he doesn't qualify for VA healthcare. As promised
LetMyPeopleVote
(177,965 posts)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.
— Darbyscastle (@darbyscastle.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T18:26:25.429Z
Trump fires off crazed rant threatening to deport Hollywood legend: 'Seriously criminal' www.rawstory.com/trump-267533...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675333499/
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 ODonnell, 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 isnt saying much," he added. "The good news is that America is now Bigger, Better, Richer, and Stronger than ever before, and its driving them absolutely crazy! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP."
MiHale
(12,868 posts)58Sunliner
(6,280 posts)zok21
(4 posts)Permanut
(8,241 posts)Skittles
(170,634 posts)I've had a lifelong crush on that New Yawk bad boy