Donald Trump's Truth Social post commenting on the death of film director Rob Reiner highlights the president's "thirst for political violence," an analyst claimed Tuesday.
Writing in The Bulwarks' Morning Shots newsletter, Mona Charen suggested Trump had a lust for political violence which had exposed itself in his Truth Social post. The president had reacted to the death of Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner after the pair were found dead at their home on Sunday.
Trump's first statement regarding Reiner's death read, "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!"
Charen wrote, "So powerful is his thirst for political violence that he not only fails to recoil from it when it breaks out; he fantasizes that it’s taking place even when it isn’t."
"There’s zero reason to believe Reiner’s murder had anything to do with his political opposition to Trump. But the president says this is true for the same reason he says many false things are true: because he wants it to be true."
The political commentator would go on to suggest Trump's comment on the death of Reiner highlighted how he had a "breathtaking moral depravity" to him.
Charen added, "Has there ever been a simpler encapsulation of the Trump era? We suffer through daily reminders of the weakness of the president’s mind, but the United States has muddled along with other dim presidents. Where Trump occupies a category all his own is in his breathtaking moral depravity."