Trump’s Derangement

Rob Reiner’s going to get the last laugh.

The other day Donald Trump did what Donald Trump does. He was mean-spirited, cruel, vulgar, self-obsessed and wrong. That’s par for Trump’s course.

On Monday Trump said that Reiner’s death was “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.”

Given a chance by reporters later in the day to retract or soften his statement he said, “Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person. I thought he was very bad for our country.”

Some Republican officeholders and even Trump followers on his social media platform are taking him to task for those comments. The hypocrisy is even too much for them. Trump blasted critics of Charlie Kirk who crowed after his murder and now he does this?

Well, what did you expect? I don’t know if this is the worst thing Trump has ever said because there are so many candidates for that title. When long-time Democratic Congressman John Dingle passed away Trump implied that he was now in hell. And he mocked Sen. John McCain at his passing, which was especially ironic given McCain’s service as a war hero while Trump dodged the draft with fake bone spurs.

But the unusual outpouring of decency and sanity from some corners of MAGA world is more evidence that Trump is losing his grip. He never had much of a grip on reality, but he’s now losing his hold over the Republican Party. When more and more elected Republicans speak out against Trump and live to tell about it, it will embolden others to say things that in the old world were a given — like lying about why a beloved film director and his wife were brutally murdered is disgusting.

Rob Reiner was a Democrat and a Trump opponent, which, contrary to what Trump contends, had nothing to do with his murder. But his killing and Trump’s typical unhinged response could have something to do with Trump’s political demise. Trump insists that all Republicans stand by him. But now a few good men are speaking out. There will be more.