Respect for people he doesn’t Like …..
Even in their passing …..
IS NOT for Donald Trump……..
President Donald Trump doubled down on his widely criticized attack of the late film director Rob Reiner, expressing no regret nor offering an apology for comments that even some Republican supporters have since denounced.
“I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump said on Dec. 15 when asked whether he stands by his social media post about Reiner from earlier in the day.
Earlier in the day, Trump responded to Reiner’s death in a Truth Social post that said Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, died “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, when asked later about Republican criticism over his post, told reporters: “I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.”
The president accused Reiner, who died at 78, of falsely claiming Trump was controlled by Russia.
Trump’s social media post drew widespread bipartisan criticism, including from some Republican supporters of the president.
“A father and mother were murdered at the hands of their troubled son,” Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma, wrote in a social media response. “We should be lifting the family up in prayer, not making this about politics.”…..
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“Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. 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. Thomas Massie (R-KY), on X.
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“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the president be presidential?”
— Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), on CNN, talking about President Trump’s reaction to the murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner.
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MAGA breaks with Trump on mocking Rob Reiner’s killing
President Trump torpedoed MAGA influencers’ calls for compassion after the killing of director Rob Reiner, mocking the longtime liberal activist as a victim of “Trump derangement syndrome.”
Why it matters: Many MAGA influencers vowed after the assassination of Charlie Kirk that they would never celebrate or mock the untimely death of a political opponent.
- Trump abandoned that moral high ground the morning after Reiner and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home — drawing rare criticism from his Republican allies….
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Driving the news: When news initially emerged of Reiner’s death Sunday night, many MAGA voices expressed sympathy and drew direct comparisons to Kirk’s assassination.
- “You won’t see people on the right celebrating the horrific murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. Compare to the Left’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder,” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec posted Sunday night.
- Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet tweeted a clip of Reiner responding “with grace and compassion” to Kirk’s assassination: “This video makes it all the more painful to hear of he and his wife’s tragic end. May God be close to the broken hearted in this terrible story.”
After Trump’s incendiary post, several Republicans criticized the president for politicizing the apparent murder. Reiner’s son Nick has been arrested in connection with the death of his parent….
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The big picture: MAGA has sought to claim the moral high ground after Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination, warning of a right under siege by leftists who would either perpetrate or celebrate violence against conservatives.
- Thousands of social media users were reported for celebrating or mocking Kirk’s killing, with many ultimately fired from their jobs.
- The Trump administration even revoked visas for non-U.S. citizens accused of celebrating Kirk’s death….
I know as members of the Jewish faith Rob and Michele Reiner did not believe in hell. But I hope Trump rots in it.
He. Knows Scott….
Here is a good piece from the National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-appalling-reiner-reaction-is-a-sign-of-something-deeply-wrong/
Anybody though who might just be realizing this about Trump now though has not been paying attention for over 10 years.
Again?
I HAVE here about the guy
Uh I’m not a great fan of National Review.However, I must say that if you regard your often indecipherable writing as on the par with theirs?
Then you are more delusional than I thought .
That angle on Donald will be done AGAIN in a forthcoming post….
And sometimes my writing IS BETTER them them paid hacks!
Yeah with writing like the above,the question becomes what are you doing here when you should be at ,well, The New York Times!
I suggest you send the above as a sample of your work.
Before a writer became a reporter for The New York Times, he or she, traditionally, would start running and proofreading reporters’ copy.
I can’t vouch for James’s “running” ability but as for “ proofreading?”
That might be a problem ( see his post above)
Ok….
I revised my lead in comment….
Gheez!
I do see what National Review has to say, which is often quite absurd or objectionable, but this particular piece has nothing in it that anyone here would take exception to:
Trump’s Appalling Reiner Reaction Is a Sign of Something Deeply Wrong
On the menu today: Yes, we must talk about what President Trump posted on Truth Social about the brutal murders of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, and how Trump doubled down when asked about it Monday afternoon. We must talk about it because a lot of Americans are embarrassed by the president, and for the president, and a whole lot of Americans would prefer to avert their eyes and pretend it didn’t happen. But it did happen. We must talk about it because there are some Americans still so blinded by partisan animus and cult-like loyalty that their first instinct will be to defend the president’s remarks. We will never become a better or more united country if we cannot point to indecent actions taken and statements made by those we agree with politically and say, “This is wrong. This is something that decent human beings do not do. You must do better than this.”
Earlier this year, we went through a terrible trauma of watching Charlie Kirk get murdered right before our eyes, if you were unlucky enough to encounter the unedited video. And then we got the second wave of horror watching lots of ordinary progressive Americans celebrate his death or attempt to justify his murder — small acts of utterly unjustifiable and unnecessary cruelty. If you are bothered by the social media postings of random unknown Americans but are willing to bend over backwards to excuse or justify the comments from the president, then you are a hypocrite of the highest order.
Donald Trump, Stark Raving Maniac
The president of the United States is a hateful raging lunatic with all the empathy of Jeffrey Dahmer….
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-appalling-reiner-reaction-is-a-sign-of-something-deeply-wrong/
You should ALWAYS extract what U want and see others things
The President Is Morally Sick
by Mona Charen @ The Bulwark
Yesterday, the world reacted in horror to the news of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, apparently at the hands of their own troubled son. Donald Trump had a more unique response….
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A couple has been murdered in their own home, their throats slit. Rob Reiner was a Hollywood giant who played a huge part in American culture for half a century and brought pleasure to millions around the globe. One might think that Trump’s admiration for fame and money alone might have stayed his hand in celebrating this tragic crime. But no. Reiner was a Democrat and an opponent of Trump, so our commander in chief, who evidently fantasizes about the violent death of every critic, took time out of his busy TV-watching schedule to gloat that Reiner had been murdered because of his “raging obsession” with Trump.
Take a minute just to marvel at this. For most people, the idea of political violence committed by one’s own side is so psychologically uncomfortable that many would prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist. When such violence does break out, many prefer to retreat into comfortable lies rather than face the fact that their allies might stoop to such lows. And when the evidence is overwhelming that their confederates have done something despicable, they reach for crutches like “false flag.”
Trump is the opposite. So powerful is his thirst for political violence that he not only fails to recoil from it when it breaks out; he fantasizes that it’s taking place even when it isn’t….
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