Commentary: Trumps callous political attack on Rob Reiner shows a shameful moral failure

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Hours after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home in what is shaping up to be a heartbreaking family tragedy, our president blamed Reiner for his own death.“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,” President Trump wrote on his social media platform.“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!” Then, in the Oval Office, Trump doubled down on Reiner.“He was a deranged person,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question about his social media post.

“I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form.I thought he was very bad for our country.”Rest in peace, indeed.

It’s a message steeped in cruelty and delusion, unbelievable and despicable even by the low, buried-in-the-dirt bar by which we have collectively come to judge Trump.In a town — and a time — of selfishness and self-serving, Reiner was one of the good guys, always fighting, both through his films and his politics, to make the world kinder and closer.

And yes, that meant fighting against Trump and his increasingly erratic and authoritarian rule.For years, Reiner made the politics of inclusion and decency central to his life.

He was a key player in overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriage and fought to expand early chi...