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When Danny DeVito hears I’m vacationing in Boca Raton, he can’t resist sharing a little tidbit with me.

“You know what that means, right?” I don’t. “That’s the mouth of the rat.”

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I assume he’s taking a dig at Donald Trump, who spends his weekends at nearby Mar-a-Lago.

After all, DeVito has throw darts at the U.S. president and has said he plans to campaign with 2020 Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.

I tell him that I stay out of politics.

But then he laughs. “I didn’t even think of that as political. I just thought it was a funny thing — that you name a place, the mouth of a rat. Maybe I’m wrong. I dunno. Look it up.”

Putting a period on that little factoid, DeVito quickly switches gears. He’s calling to talk about his latest film, Dumbo. It’s his fourth collaboration with director Tim Burton and finds him playing circus owner Max Medici in Disney’s new live-action remake of the 1941 animated classic.