The murders of Rob and Michelle Singer Reiner, for which their son Nick was jailed on suspicion of murder, shocked the nation. Millions of Americans and their families are struggling with substance abuse and/or mental health issues, and they’re not doing what Nick Reiner would have done.
Knowing that so many Americans and their families are dealing with similar situations and that what happened to the Reiners was a tragedy, if a decent human being were president, they would offer an official response mourning the deaths of the Reiners and paying tribute to them.
Unfortunately, the United States is ruled by a shallow, unstable, and cognitively declining Internet troll. Here is what Donald Trump published:
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented director and comedy star, has died, along with his wife, Michele, apparently due to the anger he caused others through his massive, inflexible, incurable affliction with a crippling mental illness known as TRUMP DISRANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes called TDS.
He was known for driving people crazy with his raging obsession with President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration exceeded all goals and expectations of greatness, and with America’s golden age upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
The timing of Trump’s toxic attempt at division was not surprising after a new NBC News poll found that fewer Americans identify as Republican and the size of Trump’s MAGA base is shrinking.
Trump has only one political trick: to divide and turn people against each other, but the response to the Reiner murders has revealed how this strategy fails.
America is no longer following Trump’s lead, and dissent is popping up in unexpected places.
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