Veteran political journalist Maggie Haberman highlighted damning comments by President Donald Trump in the wake of the Hollywood director Rob Reiner’s death.
“One of the things that’s striking here is President Trump celebrated,” when Reiner was killed, Haberman said on “The Lead” with host Jake Tapper on Thursday. “President Trump said something insensitive at best when Rob Reiner and his wife were killed, allegedly, by their child.”
Haberman was referring to Trump’s Truth Social post after the beloved celebrity’s slaying. Trump appeared to make the director’s death all about himself, even though it allegedly stemmed from issues with his son, Nick 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,” Trump wrote. “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.”
Despite this, Trump insists that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for jokes that the president is trying to frame as threats against his life made right before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Kimmel has clarified that the punchlines in question were aimed at the age difference between Trump and his wife, Melania.
Tapper noted that Trump also “celebrated” the death of former FBI director Robert Mueller, who led an investigation into the president.
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