It is claimed White House staffers are concerned Donald Trump is ‘teetering’ after his sickening attack on Rob Reiner, hours after the Hollywood icon was found dead
Donald Trump’s own aides are concerned the US President is “teetering” following his sick online attack against Rob Reiner, it has been claimed.
Trump’s cruel rant hours after the death of the tragic film director and his wife has reportedly led to more worries about his mental state. The Republican blamed Reiner’s death on ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ during a lengthy tirade on his Truth Social account. Nick Reiner has been charged with murdering his film director father and mother Michele at their home in Los Angeles.
The remarks sparked widespread anger, and now Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff claims the post has led to serious questions being asked in the White House. He told the Inside Trump’s Head podcast that one staff member said: “I don’t know what that was, but it wasn’t good. Everybody knows it’s a thin line he walks. Is he teetering? Well…”
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“This person didn’t complete the sentence,” Wolff said. “We all become kind of diagnosticians of these old-man presidents. I mean, nobody is going to come out and say, ‘He’s losing it.’ So we all have to make our own judgments about that.
“And I think in this situation, particularly in this situation, in the way that everyone who has a family at some level relates to this, I think the judgment is going to be a devastating one: Trump is off his f****g rocker.” Trump has always denied any suggestion that he has cognitive or physical health issues, Express reports.
Reiner and his wife were found dead at their Los Angeles home on Sunday, with their throats said to have been slit. Hours later, their son was arrested on suspicion of the couple’s murder.
After news of the film director’s death broke, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Reiner, who was a vocal critic of the president, had “a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome” and had “driven people crazy by his raging obsession” with the politician.
The US president said: “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.
“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!”
Kentucky representative Thomas Massie was among the Republican voices to criticise Trump. He said on X: “Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.”
He added: “I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.” The US President doubled down on his comments on Tuesday, maintaining that Reiner was “very bad for our country.”