Trump's Gone Mad

It seems plain to me just how crazy this president is. His lack of any sympathy for the Reiners was a tell. His 'surprise' at the new name of the Kennedy Center was another. The President is ill.

I would call it a sort of decay that sets in when a man of limitless appetites finally gets everything he wants. We saw it in the late-period love life of Murdoch, in the bloated final act of Harvey Weinstein, in the gilded decomposition of any number of titans who mistook the silence of their courtiers for the admiration of the world. The organism, unchecked, begins to consume itself.

This week, Donald Trump gave us a virtuoso performace of this particular madness.

Let us begin with the death of Rob Reiner — a man whose principal crime was directing “When Harry Met Sally” and voting Democratic. Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Sunday, allegedly by their own son, a tragedy of almost Shakespearean dimensions. The bodies were barely cold when the President of the United States took to Truth Social to announce that Reiner had died from “the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippli…