"What we received instead from Donald Trump was something far darker.

This morning, Trump published a post mocking Rob Reiner’s death. He did not merely withhold condolences. He weaponized the moment. In a statement that defies decency, Trump claimed Reiner 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.'”

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/2

"Vile. Reprehensible. Evil. These words somehow are not enough to describe Trump’s comments. Even worse — his post was amplified by the White House across their official accounts. They were proud of the remarks."

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/3

"The president’s online outburst on Monday underscored just how quickly the supposed leader of the free world will jump at the chance to dance on your grave – if you dare speak out against him."

~ Asawin Suebsaeng

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/4

zeteo.com/p/breaking-trump-dan…

BREAKING: Trump Dances on Rob Reiner’s Grave

Even for President Donald Trump, this is sickening.

^{Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)}

"When we look back on 2025, this Rob Reiner tweet won’t make the top hundred worst things he did or said.

We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/5

thebulwark.com/p/america-unser…

America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People

Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

"Meanwhile, many major media companies do not have Trump’s vile post on their front page news coverage, and when they do, it is sanitized to normalize this behavior."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
/6

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new…

NEWS: Republicans Condemn Donald Trump for Vile Post About Murder of Rob and Michele Reiner

Donald Trump is facing significant backlash for a vile and horrific post reveling in the death of Rob and Michele Reiner

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

Julie Roginsky comments on Trump's psychopathic, cruel, amoral response to the Reiners' murder by saying,

"The president of the United States is a psychopath. This is not about his policies — although lord knows, they will kill millions of people before he is through.

This is about Donald Trump himself — the putrid, malignant soul that occupies his broken-down body."

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
/7

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/t…

Trump is a Psychopath

And the media is complicit

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}

"The sick mind that, without our increasingly loosened guard rails, would conjure up a gulag or wherever autocrats like him send those they hate, usually without any real basis.

He is rotting from the inside and under his leadership, so is our nation."

And, she concludes, the media have aided and abetted this pyschopathy and are complicit in it.

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
/8

"Unlike that guy [aka POTUS], Rob Reiner’s memory will indeed forever be a blessing. May we all live our lives so well it breaks Donald Trump’s demented brain."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
/9

wonkette.com/p/lets-be-sad-abo…

Let's Be Sad About Rob Reiner Together

A horrible end to a terrible weekend.

^{Marcie Jones (Wonkette)}

"The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it. …

He blamed the victim. He mocked the dead. He made a double homicide about himself. And he did it within hours of the bodies being discovered.

I don’t expect consistency from Trump. The man has never pretended to operate by any principle beyond self-interest."

~ Parker Molloy

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
/10

readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-gri…

The Rules of Grief

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

"What I find more interesting is the response — or the lack of one — from the people who spent the fall building databases of Kirk critics and demanding mass firings.

Where is Libs of TikTok declaring 'THIS IS WAR' over Trump’s callousness? Where are the calls from JD Vance to show basic human decency? Where is Pete Hegseth directing staff to identify anyone who celebrated or mocked this family tragedy?"

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
/11

"The post-Kirk purge was never about mourning. It wasn’t about opposing political violence or maintaining civil discourse or respecting the dead. It was about power. It was about demonstrating that there would be consequences for insufficient loyalty, for failing to perform the correct emotions at the correct time about the correct people. …

Let me spell [the rules] out, since they’re now pretty clear:"

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
/12

"If a prominent conservative is killed, you must mourn publicly and appropriately. Quoting their own words is not allowed. Pointing out the consequences of their rhetoric is not allowed. Criticizing how their allies respond is not allowed. Failing to show sufficient grief is grounds for termination, investigation, deportation, or FCC action against your employer."

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
/13

"If a prominent liberal is killed, the president can mock them, blame them for their own death, and make it about himself. No one will be fired for celebrating. No one will be investigated. No one will lose their visa.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

The mourning requirements were never about principle. They were a loyalty test dressed up in the language of civility. And now Trump has made that impossible to deny."

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
/14

"First, this angry, partisan message is utterly inappropriate to the tragedy that has engulfed the Reiner family and the community of people who care about them.

Second, Trump has made it all about himself. It’s not the first time his malignant narcissism has put himself at the center of whatever is preoccupying the public at the moment, but this is one of the most extreme and disgusting examples I’ve seen."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/15

robertreich.substack.com/p/tru…

Trump’s response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all

Friends,

^{Robert Reich}

"Third, if anyone still harbors any doubt that Trump is losing it — that his mind is in the grip of dementia, also likely paranoia — this post should make it clear. No rational person would post this."

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty
/16

"We are in a terrible new world. Our country is under the control of a madman who is doing heinous things, and the mainstream media has been waay too slow to discard their mannered norms in the face of that existential threat. The Reiner case is both obviously off point and absolutely on point.

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
/17

geneweingarten.substack.com/p/…

The Unbearable Politeness of Being the MSM

About midnight last night, we learned from The New York Times, and a little later from The Washington Post, that film director Rob Reiner and his wife had been found dead in their Los Angeles home, apparently a double homicide.

^{gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)}