Weighing Trump’s Social Media Post on Rob Reiner’s Murder, Without the Hysteria | The American Spectator

It was unwise, self-absorbed, and lacking in pity for Trump to write his Truth Social post about Rob Reiner’s murder, which will be used as political ammunition to attack those who voted for him and to get hard-left Democrats elected in 2026 who will do great damage to the country. Trump should have taken the high road despite Reiner’s decade-long, unhinged, and hyperbolic attacks on Trump.

That said, it would be immature and shallow for any Christian or non-Christian conservative in their political decision-making to cite this as a basis for not casting an effective vote against a Party that not only has even worse rhetoric against their opponents but whose two greatest policy idols are unrestricted abortion and coercive LGBTQ immorality and indoctrination that is grossly injurious to children, women and the nation as a whole, policy idols accompanied by hard-left court appointments, forced indoctrination and compelled speech, and a massive unvetted illegal-immigration election scam. (RELATED: Our Two Main Parties Are Non-Christian but Only One Is Demonic)

Comparing an inappropriate post of this sort with promoting in public policy child abuse and endangerment of females is absurd in the extreme. Get a grip, grow up, and get a sense of scale regarding what matters most.

A Little Context

Before going nuts and criticizing Trump severely, two context elements should be kept in mind.

First, Trump did at least open the comment by calling what happened “a very sad thing” and closed with saying, “May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.” He didn’t say, like many leftists (not Rob Reiner), that he was glad that Charlie Kirk was murdered. (RELATED: Peggy Noonan and the Dangers of Uncritical Thinking)

Unfortunately, the entire middle part of the post attributed the actions of Reiner’s troubled son to Rob Reiner’s anger (Reiner was indeed an angry guy, but at the present time, we have no knowledge of what triggered Reiner’s son to murder his parents) and then made the further assumption that Reiner’s anger problem was aggravated by his TDS. (RELATED: Hollywood Horror: The Murder of Rob Reiner)

Second, Trump was absolutely correct in characterizing Reiner as a top-tier Trump-hater, obsessed with Trump for a decade, with a long history of spewing vicious bile about Trump in what certainly qualifies as high-level TDS (for evidence, go here, here, here, and here).

Over the years Reiner has called Trump a “cockroach,” a “zombie,” a “lifetime criminal,” a “moron,” a “con man,” a “racist misogynist,” a “threat to democracy,” a “fascist,” a “childish moronic mentally unstable malignant narcissist,” who “basically lies every minute of his life,” claiming that if Trump were elected in 2024 that he would bring about “full-on autocracy” and that “Trump has declared war on this democracy,” that his actions are “beyond McCarthy era-esque” and “classic fascist,” that Trump “has broken Federal Law every day of his Presidency,” calling him the “single most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States” and “mentally unfit” to be president.

Reiner said that Trump should be criminally “indicted” and put in jail while in office as president. He prophesied after Trump’s election in 2024, “We have a year before this country becomes a full-on autocracy and democracy completely leaves us.” He accused Trump of “committing Treason against The United States of America,” of “aiding and abetting the enemy,” and turning “the world’s oldest Democracy into a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin.”

In what certainly counts as a case of excessive paranoia, Reiner also claimed after the Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle that “This may be the last time you ever see me because… there’s only a couple of us that are speaking out in this hard way.” Reiner also produced a documentary called God and Country that was a hit-piece on Christians whom he called “far right” and a “threat to democracy” because of their opposition to abortion and “gay rights” and their support for Trump. (RELATED: Unapologetic Jimmy Kimmel Still Delivering Politics Instead of Punchlines)

What Trump Should Have Done

None of this justifies Trump’s response. But it does indicate that Trump was responding from personal hurt. Perhaps too, as someone who has suffered multiple assassination attempts precisely because he has been labeled a “fascist” and a “threat to democracy” by Reiner and Leftists throughout the country.

It would have been better for him to have simply said, as Reiner did about Kirk’s assassination (though there was no history of vitriolic attacks by Kirk on Reiner), “I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution, so solving problems,” “an absolute horror.” Or even to have started with his opening line, “a very sad thing,” and followed it with his closing line, “May Rob and Michelle rest in peace,” and deleted everything in between.

How Trump’s Comment Will Be Exploited for Political Gain

Trump’s social-media comment on the murder of Reiner and his wife is being used for political purposes, kicking off the usual round of attacks on those who voted for Trump, as if any of this is comparable to contributing to the election of a far-left candidate whose two chief idols were virtually unrestricted abortion and coercive promotion of LGBTQ immorality (including chemical castration of minors, males in female private spaces and sports, forcible indoctrination of minors in LGBTQ immorality, and threats to employees, parents, and the church), along with attendant threats to First Amendment rights, the appointment of hard-left jurists to our courts, and massive election cheating through an unprecedented illegal immigration scam. (RELATED: The Judicial Coup Is Collapsing)

It will also be claimed that at least the Democrats, like Harris, Biden, and Hillary Clinton, didn’t name-call and treat their opponents like dirt. That would be a case of selective memory. (RELATED: TDS Now Resembles Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’)

In July 2024 Harris characterized as “these extremists … they not like us” those who oppose “the freedom to love whom you love” (that is, those who oppose the immorality of “gay marriage” and transgenderism) and “the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body” (that is, to kill her child in the womb). As with the Democrat Party and the Democrat-controlled “news” media, Harris also called Trump a “fascist” and a “threat to democracy.” Any wonder that Trump was the victim of two assassination attempts and Charlie Kirk was assassinated? (RELATED: Historians in Denial of the 2024 Election)

A year ago, Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.” That’s half the nation. In 2018, at the so-called “Human Rights Campaign,” the most powerful transgender-gay lobby in the nation, Biden declared that if you oppose the so-called “Equality Act” and other coercive trans/gay legislation (including chemical castration of minors), you are the “forces of intolerance,” “virulent people,” and “the dregs of society.”

In the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton called “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables” because of their alleged “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” views and “offensive, hateful rhetoric,” folk “irredeemable and not American.”

We don’t need any lectures about how Democrats occupy the high ground. Many of them celebrated Kirk’s assassination or at least appeared to justify it by saying, “Don’t be surprised if people want to shoot at you for saying hateful things.” (RELATED: Charlie Kirk and the Shame of the ‘However’ Progressives)

We can criticize Trump’s social-media comment without losing our sense of scale and ultimately our minds.

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