Less than a day after Rob Reiner and his wife were slain in their Los Angeles home, Donald Trump has attacked The American President director.
In fact, Trump doubled down Monday on the killing of Reiner, attacking the acclaimed filmmaker who the LAPD says was murdered by one of his sons.
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“Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said in the Oval Office today, after slagging the Oscar-nominated Reiner online earlier saying he was killed “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Late last night, the Reiners’ 32-year-old son Nick was arrested by the police as a suspect in his parents’ deaths by multiple stab wounds.
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The younger Reiner, who had been living with his parents again of late, was booked for murder. He is being held in downtown Los Angeles on no bail now (it had previously been $4 million), and police say they will be handing the case to the L.A. County District Attorney for potential prosecution as early as Tuesday. If found guilty on homicide charges, Nick Reiner could be sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole.
With all that’s now known, and given a chance to walk back his remarks of earlier, Trump instead decided to go even further in lashing out at Reiner.
“He was a deranged person, as far as Trump is concerned,” Trump added, speaking of himself in the third person, referring to Reiner, a well-known supporter of the Democrats and progressive causes.
In a mini-press conference that also included topics like the fatal shooting at Brown University, his potential lawsuit against the BBC and the war in Ukraine, Trump added: “He said .. .that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. He knows the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself career-wise, he became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.”
Trump’s first set of remarks Monday about the Reiners earned him quick blowback, with even a few Republicans calling the comments too much. Already these latest remarks are earning similar reactions.
Trump’s set of insults about Reiner were a stark contrast to what his successor and predecessor Joe Biden had to say Monday morning about the filmmaker and his wife’s deaths:
The only dangerous person, is POTUS himself – a grifting, pathological lying felon.
Whenever I’d argue, why this man should not be elected, this was always what I gave as an example. His callousness, the name calling and being completely tone deaf about what this country needs to hear and what the American people need from their president during a tragedy. The president needs to be a person that I can point to him and tell my kids “that’s a leader” not “remember kids always be kind, empathetic, respectful and be thoughtful….. So not like the leader of this great nation, got it? Don’t be a bully like him.”
Trump is not strong when he “speaks his mind”, he’s just a massive Dick. It’s sad to know that our president is this much of a troll/bully and we’re all just supposed to get with the program. Shame on the Republican party for not recognizing how bad he is for this country, or recognizing and being to spineless to say “we need to do something about this” and replace him. Democrats did it to Joe Biden, lets replace sleepy trump next.
When the republican was murdered, weren’t we all supposed to mourn and not say anything bad about him?
Trump should have said nothing at all since he can’t send condolences to the Reiner family. What a God awful person
Trump needs to be visited by 3 Ghosts.