The Republican Party are finding it harder to "excuse the inexcusable" in Donald Trump's increasingly unhinged Truth Social posts.
The president is facing a slump in polling as his administration fails to deal with the cost-of-living crisis and health care woes, but comments made Monday about the murder of Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner underscore how tired the GOP is of Trump. Ben Jacobs of Slate Magazine has suggested Republican Party representatives are showing they've had enough.
Trump's comments on Reiner, who was found dead at his home with wife Michele Singer Reiner on Sunday, sparked fury from commentators and even within the GOP.
Taking to Truth Social, Trump wrote, "A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob 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, 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. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"
But the comments have not landed well with the GOP, with Jacobs suggesting Republicans are "less willing to excuse the inexcusable" found in Trump's statements.
He wrote, "The result is that Republicans are less willing to excuse the inexcusable, like his post about Reiner. Even if he’s still an incumbent popular among the GOP faithful, Trump is no longer the political juggernaut he was only months ago."
Trump was given a chance for damage control when he appeared in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon to speak on Reiner's death, but called the When Harry Met Sally and Misery director "a deranged person." The comment, Jacobs suggested, is "not making it any easier for Republicans to ignore this."
Though Trump's political power will still be a strong base in the midterms next year, the influence he had has "slowly but surely diminished as his approval ratings approach all-time lows," Jacobs wrote.