Trump lays into De Niro after actor shows up outside hush-money trial

It appears that Robert De Niro has really gotten under Donald Trump‘s skin.

The former president of the United States took to his social media platform, Truth Social, just after midnight on Wednesday to rail against the Hollywood actor, after De Niro made a surprise appearance outside Trump’s hush-money trial Tuesday.

“I never knew how small, both mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was,” Trump wrote in a late-night post.

“Today, De Niro, who suffers from an incurable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, commonly known in the medical community as TDS, was met, outside the Courthouse, with a force far greater than the Radical Left – MAGA,” Trump continued, using the made-up condition, “TDS,” which he and his supporters use to belittle critics.

The fired-up former president used all-caps to attack De Niro, writing that his “movies, artistry, and brand have gone WAY DOWN IN VALUE,” and called his appearance outside the courthouse “pathetic and sad.”

De Niro, accompanied by two Capitol police officers, Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, showed up outside the lower Manhattan courthouse Tuesday to speak at a press conference organized by President Biden’s campaign team.

As Dunn and Fanone, both who were injured during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots, spoke of the dangers of a repeat Trump presidency, at least 20 Trump supporters clad in “Make America Great Again” gear chanted “F— Joe Biden” and waved flags from a nearby park.

De Niro, a longtime vitriolic critic of Trump, laid into the Republican presidential nominee, calling him “just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot.”

“I don’t mean to scare you. No, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro told reporters. “If Trump returns to the White