‘Extremely low IQ and cries like a child’: Donald Trump renews attack on Robert De Niro

After the star made a fresh denunciation of the US president at an alternative State of the Union event, Trump returned fire at length on Truth Social, calling De Niro sick and demented'

Donald Trump has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro, in which he called the president an idiot".

Speaking on Monday's episode of The Best People with Nicole Wallace, De Niro, who has long criticised the politics, morals and competence of Trump, said: He's an idiot. We gotta get rid of him. He's gonna ruin the country."