The Real Trump Derangement Syndrome Strikes Again
In the immediate aftermath of the murder of the politically trivial and offensively pseudo-Christian MAGA grifter Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner, a knee-jerk and sometimes offensive Hollywood progressive (though one who actually earned his living and reputation through honest work rather than by playing up to powerful political factions), offered an appropriate and elegant public statement about Kirk’s killing.
Here is the Huffington Post’s account of Reiner’s comments:
“Absolute horror and I unfortunately saw the video of it,” Reiner replied. “It’s beyond belief what happened to him. That should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution so [sic] solving problems.”
“And I felt like what his wife [Erika] said at the service at the memorial they had, was exactly right,” he continued. “I’m Jewish but I believe in the teachings of Jesus and I believe in ‘do unto others’ and I believe in forgiveness and what she said to me was beautiful. She forgave his assassin. And I think that is admirable.”
(For the record, here is my own immediate response to the Kirk assassination.)
Now, sadly, Reiner himself, along with his wife, has been murdered in his home, apparently (as of this writing) by an estranged and deranged son. And how does the President of the United States respond to the first news of this entertainment world horror? By showing similarly honorable fellow-feeling across political divides? Okay, I know that no one would expect that from the vulgar cretin and hatemonger Trump. But at least, perhaps, a slightly subdued version of his typical “it’s all about me” grandstanding over every popular news event? Even that, of course, is too much to ask of him at this point.
And so, as reported by NPR, the President of The United States, as per his usual sensibility, drops his drawers, mounts his fake-gold throne, and types out this charming fireside chat to the nation:
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social Monday morning. “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 went on to say that Reiner had a “raging obsession” with him, “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.”
His post concluded with, “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
As I have noted many times before on this website, but never more self-evidently than in this instance, the real “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is the mental condition of Donald Trump himself, along with the tens of millions of Americans who knowingly and enthusiastically voted for this blackened sidewalk gum to be their spokesman, hero, and dictator. (Well, they were really effectively voting for Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, though they are too blind to have recognized it, and probably too spiritually lost to mind much even if they had recognized it.)
I have never been a fan of Rob Reiner as an actor, a director, or a political activist, though I grant he contributed a few inoffensive entertainments over the years. But he certainly did not deserve this — and by “this” I mean not only the family disaster of being murdered in his elder years, but also the indignity of being mocked and belittled in memoriam by the ugliest quasi-human lifeform that the United States, in these final stages of its consumption, has thus far coughed up.
