Donald Trump has weighed in on the Sunday murders of famed actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, in predictable fashion: by blaming Rob Reiner, an outspoken progressive and Trump critic, for instigating his own death.
“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,” the president wrote, blasting past the level of comment on the shocking murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year that conservative trolls used to try to get people fired from their jobs.
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“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!” Trump wrote.
To the MAGA-adjacents who sided with the hardcore racists, bigots, misogynists and assorted other know-nothings to put this guy back into office, supposedly because you were concerned about the price of eggs – this is what you actually voted for.
Note on that term, Trump Derangement Syndrome:
I would tend to agree that we need to add this particular affliction to the mental health lexicon.
To describe the millions of those who have allowed themselves to be duped into voting for and defending this blathering psychopath as he burns America to the ground.
The sad news with the Reiner murders is, at this writing, it is being reported, via TMZ, that the couple’s son, Nick, 32, has been arrested in connection with the double-murder, and is in custody on $4 million bail.
According to a report in the New York Post, the couple was found by their daughter, Romy, 28, in their home on Sunday with “their throats slit” and “multiple wounds through their bodies,” and Romy immediately told police that her brother was the killer, describing Nick as “dangerous” and suggesting that the stabbing stemmed from a “heated argument.”
The relationship between the parents and the son were the focus of a 2015 feature film, “Being Charlie,” co-written by Nick Reiner and directed by Rob Reiner, exploring Nick’s past struggles with addiction and homelessness.
Nick Reiner’s personal story, as we learned from the movie, is difficult – he recounted in interviews promoting the film that he made his first visit to rehab at the age of 15, and that his time being homeless was the result of his refusal to return to rehab.
“If I wanted to do it my way and not go to the programs they were suggesting, then I had to be homeless. Now, I’ve been home for a really long time. But there was a lot of dark years there,” he said in a 2016 interview discussing the movie, which includes a scene, perhaps eerily prophetic, in which the son, played by actor Nick Robinson, angrily confronts his father, played by Cary Elwes.
A report on the murder in the Hollywood Reporter highlighted dialogue from one scene in the movie that comes across now, 10 years later, as … voyeuristic.
David (the stand-in for Rob Reiner): “Charlie, I know you’re angry at me and probably don’t want to hear this right now but I do love you. I’m sorry. Every expert with a desk and a diploma told me I had to be tough at you but every time we sent you away to another one of those programs I saw you slipping away from us. And all I could tell myself is that I’d rather have you alive and hating me than dead on the streets. So what do you want me to do? Tell me what to do.”
Charlie (the stand-in for Nick Reiner): “You don’t have to do anything.”
David: “You want to come up to Sacramento? Get away from all the …”
David: “What, the drugs? It was never about the drugs. All I ever wanted was a way to kill the noise. But the more I used the louder it got.”
David: “I was part of the noise, wasn’t I?”
Charlie motions a sarcastic “little bit.”
David: “So, what are you going to do?”
Charlie: “I don’t know. I’ll figure it out. (Pause.) I don’t hate you.”
David: “I know.”
The two hug, as Charlie turns to walk out the door.
David: “You take good care of yourself.”
What seems to have happened yesterday at the Reiner family home is a personal tragedy that is making headlines because of the identities of those involved, but is similar to issues that play out every day outside the headlines as millions of American families deal with the fallout from substance abuse and addiction.
Donald Trump, world’s worst human, exploited this intensely personal tragedy for the Reiner family to get a dig at a critic who had just been murdered, and to score a political point.
Did you seriously vote for this, because if you did, you’re as bad as he is.
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