A prominent author who has written about President Donald Trump for decades warned on Tuesday that the president just showed the world that he is genuinely "off his f------ rocker."
Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed Trump's response to director Rob Reiner's murder on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast that he co-hosts with Joana Coles of The Daily Beast. Trump posted on Truth Social that Reiner, a frequent critic of Trump's, suffered from "Trump Derrangement Syndrome," and suggested that this may have led to his death.
"As anyone has gone through this, just because your older parent, let's say, is showing signs of losing it, does not mean that they will not continue down the road of losing it for quite some time," Wolff said. "We do have three years to go."
Reiner and his wife, Michele, were murdered in their Los Angeles home over the weekend. Authorities have indicted the couple's son, Nick, on two counts of first-degree murder related to the incident.
Wolff said Trump's response "can only hurt him," but the president doesn't seem phased by that notion.
"You fall asleep, okay, not a good look, but it's not really your fault," Wolff said, referring to Trump's age. " But this is something to have said this, and it was unnecessary for him to say anything, to have dived in. And so proactively done something that will create nothing ... That's derrangement."