Commentary: Rob Reiner's tragic slaying and Trump's awful response

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Months before his slaying, Rob Reiner talked about the power of forgiveness after the “horrific” assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.“Horror.An absolute horror,” the director, actor and political activist said when asked about the shooting in a TV interview with Piers Morgan.

“I unfortunately saw the video of it and it’s beyond belief what happened to him, and that should never happen to anybody.I don’t care what your political beliefs are.

That’s not acceptable.” Contrast that with President Trump’s reaction to the killing of Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, who on Sunday were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home.Their son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested in connection with the slayings.“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,” Trump said in a social media post.“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!”How is that anyone’s initial reaction to a tragic slaying, let alone an official comment from a sitting U.S.

president? That’s a rhetorical question, of course.It’s just another Monday at Trump’s White House.I’d be screaming into the void if I were to use the rest of this column to argue that the president is not only off his rocker but also has tumbled down the stairs and is in the foyer, mumbling something about speedboats...