Trump is a POS on every level of human understanding. That’s my opinion. I believe if Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin were to play golf in Hell, they wouldn’t allow Trump into the foursome.
His latest uncontrollable outburst is further evidence of what a POS this man is.
My question is … how do the MAGA faithful square his cruelty, stupidity and deteriorating mind and still worship him as their king?
What does this say about the faithful?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...h/87777834007/
Trump gloated about Rob Reiner's death. He can't stop himself. | Opinion
Trump, firmly in the grip of his malignant narcissism, doesn't need his claims to be factually accurate. He just needs them to be cruel. And he needs you to pay attention.
Portrait of Chris Brennan Chris Brennan
USA TODAY
Updated Dec. 16, 2025, 9:44 a.m. ET
Let's begin with a different perspective on the latest predictable outrage perpetrated by President Donald Trump.
Rob Reiner, the wonderfully talented Hollywood legend, and his wife, film producer Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in their home on Dec. 14. Their son Nick Reiner has been charged with murder.
Awful stuff. And then Trump made it worse, gloating about Reiner's death in a mid-morning post the next day on his website Truth Social.
Trump started and ended his 117-word screed with some insipid condolences typical for this sort of circumstance. But he dedicated about 90 of those words to making the deaths of Reiner and his wife all about how Trump is the real victim here.
As you can probably imagine, this sparked a fierce backlash online, with many people outraged that Trump could not say just something graceful about a gruesome tragedy, or at least just keep his thoughts to himself.
I felt something else. Something unexpected. I feel bad for Trump.
He can’t help himself. He has no control over this. Anything that attracts attention – joyous or sorrowful – has to be all about him.
And if you revile Trump for that, he’ll play the victim of that, too. It's a terrible cycle. And he can't stop it.
It's pathetic. Our president is pitiable.
Rob Reiner's remarks on Charlie Kirk's death show a sharp contrast to Donald Trump's tantrum
Consider how tortured a mind must be for anyone, let alone a president, to openly celebrate the violent death of a famous person just because that person held very different political views and was known to share them aloud.
Reiner was well known for calling Trump "mentally unfit" for the presidency. Trump's response to Reiner's death offered more evidence for that verdict.
Now consider how Trump and his supporters reacted when Charlie Kirk, a MAGA-aligned activist and commentator, was assassinated in September. There was a wave of fury that washed over many people who were seen as celebrating Kirk's death.
Trump threatened at the time to use the power of the federal government to punish people he perceived as political enemies, exploiting Kirk's death as a pretext.
Reiner's politics could not have been more different than Kirk's. And the director did receive plenty of attention for how he reacted to Kirk's death. Here's what he said about the "absolute horror" of seeing the video of that fatal shooting.
"It's beyond belief, what happened to him," Reiner said in a television interview. "That should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's not a solution to solving problems."
Trump can't muster that sort of sensible solace. He can't fathom a circumstance where he is not the center of all things.
We need to understand Trump's lack of empathy
In his Truth Social post, Trump claimed Reiner was dead "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. 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."
Out here in the real world, it was no secret that Nick Reiner, 32, has been open in the past about his struggles with drug addiction and the resulting homelessness that plagued him for more than half of his life.
I don't know if Nick Reiner killed his parents. If he did, there's nothing supporting Trump's claims that politics served as a motive.
The president's lack of empathy was repulsive to many Republicans in Congress, and they said so after his post. But asked about that at the White House on Dec. 15, he just doubled down.
"I wasn't a fan of his at all," Trump said about Reiner. "He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned."
Trump, firmly in the grip of his malignant narcissism, doesn't care if his political allies have concerns. And he doesn't need his claims to be factually accurate. He just needs them to be cruel. And he needs you to pay attention. It doesn't matter to Trump if you find his lack of capacity for empathy to be exhilarating or exhausting, just as long as you don't look away.
I don't say this to excuse Trump's behavior. I say it because we really need to do more to understand it. And I'm saying "we" as Americans – progressives, moderates, conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, independents.
And here's a prediction I wish wasn't inevitably going to come true – Trump will do this sort of thing again. And he seems likely to become more and more toxic in these circumstances as his approval rating plummets and the end of his second term gets closer.
America is going to move on from Trump at some point. There will come a day when nothing about our daily lives has anything to do with Trump. I think he's terrified of becoming irrelevant. He is clearly not ready for it, though I'll bet he senses it on the horizon.
Trump’s repeated remarks about Rob Reiner’s murder cast a bright light on the type of person he is.
