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Trump is cool with disrespecting the dead if they're Democrats



On Monday, President Donald Trump fired off a hateful Truth Social post about
Rob Reiner, the legendary Hollywood director who, along with his wife Michele,
were stabbed to death in their home.

Trump said that Reiner—who has spent millions championing Democratic
candidates and progressive causes such as LGBTQ+ equality—was killed because he
hated Trump.

"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured
and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has
passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he
caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a
mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred
to as TDS," Trump wrote. "He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his
raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and
expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps
like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"





 



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It's hard to know where to begin to unpack how absolutely deranged and sick
Trump's post really is.

First, we have no idea why Reiner and his wife were murdered. TMZ reported
that one of Reiner's sons has been arrested, suspected of slitting both Reiner
and his wife's throats after an argument with an unnamed family member—though
there was no information on what the argument was about or who the family
member was. The suspect, Nick Reiner, has long struggled with drug addiction.

No matter what the argument was about, to suggest that Reiner and his wife
deserved to be killed because they disliked someone is beyond sick for anyone
to say, let alone the president of the United States.

Yet that’s par for the course for Trump, who danced on the grave of the late
Sen. John McCain, called military members who died “suckers and losers,” and
seems to delight in the pain he inflicts on others daily.

But what’s more, Trump’s disgusting comment about Reiner is especially
galling because Trump himself had vowed to use his power of the presidency to
punish anyone who he accused of using rhetoric that led to the death of Charlie
Kirk, the right-wing activist who was also brutally murdered.

"For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like
Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind
of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our
country today and it must stop right now,” Trump said on the day of Kirk’s
death, adding that he was going to go after anyone who "contributed to this
atrocity and to other political organizations that fund it and support it.”

For example, Trump tried to force ABC to get late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel
off the air, after Kimmel spoke about how Trump and his MAGA allies were trying
to gain political points from Kirk’s killing.





 



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At the end of the day, Trump is such an egomaniac that he couldn't help but
bask in schadenfreude when someone he disliked was brutally murdered.

And his comment was so appalling that even some Republicans grew a spine to
criticize it.

“Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and
disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered,” Rep.
Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has become a thorn in Trump’s side, wrote in a post
on X. “I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will
just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has become increasingly critical
of her once Dear Leader, also called out Trump’s post.

“Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own
son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining
children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak. This is a family tragedy,
not about politics or political enemies,” Greene wrote in a post on X. “Many
families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health
issues. It’s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially
when it ends in murder.”

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