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Failures of the US president.
Donald Trump is a sick man.
There are many who want to benefit from it. The US president's reaction to the death of director Rob Reiner was repulsive. Even worse is how his environment behaves.
Journalists should stay away from psychological remote diagnoses. Some people, however, turn their innermost beings outwards in public so unabatedly that this is hardly possible. Especially when it comes to the most powerful man in the world.
What Donald Trump gave after the violent death of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele was of particular baseness even for his standards. The couple had been stabbed over the weekend, presumably by their own son.
Petty vindiction.
Trump commented on this in his network Truth Social with the words that Reiner had probably died from the anger he had triggered in others by his "massive, unyinfallible and incurable mental illness called Trump delusion syndrome". Reiner's paranoia had reached a new climax when the Trump administration exceeded all goals and expectations of grandeur. Reiner had repeatedly criticised Trump and his administration.
In Trump's world there is no generosity, fairness or nobility. It is not new that Trump belittles victims. Nevertheless, it is frightening that he can also relate a private tragedy exclusively to himself. In his world there is no generosity, fairness or nobility. For Trump, there is only his person and his petty revenge. "We are ruled by the most repulsive person who has ever resided in the White House," conservative columnist Bret Stephens wrote in the New York Times.
Which is not to say that the president is the most repulsive person in political Washington. Trump obviously has a massive disorder of self-regulation. He has the personality of an alcoholic, said his own chief of staff Susie Wiles in interviews with Vanity Fair magazine.
He's a sick man.
This does not apply to the creepers and profiteers in his environment: Wiles himself, who is Trump's most important support. Or Vice President JD Vance, a political opportunist who probably wants to become president himself. Mike Johnson, the head of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, who holds his nose while organising the majorities for the president. And the senators who wrestle their hands when Trump says something repulsive again, and who continue to support him because anything else would jeopardise their career. Their behaviour is at least as destinable as that of Trump himself.
Even if it does not change anything, one must always point out that those who support Trump, consciously leave the space of human and political decency. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Ralf Neukirch, DER SPIEGEL
Donald Trump is a sick man.
There are many who want to benefit from it. The US president's reaction to the death of director Rob Reiner was repulsive. Even worse is how his environment behaves.
Journalists should stay away from psychological remote diagnoses. Some people, however, turn their innermost beings outwards in public so unabatedly that this is hardly possible. Especially when it comes to the most powerful man in the world.
What Donald Trump gave after the violent death of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele was of particular baseness even for his standards. The couple had been stabbed over the weekend, presumably by their own son.
Petty vindiction.
Trump commented on this in his network Truth Social with the words that Reiner had probably died from the anger he had triggered in others by his "massive, unyinfallible and incurable mental illness called Trump delusion syndrome". Reiner's paranoia had reached a new climax when the Trump administration exceeded all goals and expectations of grandeur. Reiner had repeatedly criticised Trump and his administration.
In Trump's world there is no generosity, fairness or nobility. It is not new that Trump belittles victims. Nevertheless, it is frightening that he can also relate a private tragedy exclusively to himself. In his world there is no generosity, fairness or nobility. For Trump, there is only his person and his petty revenge. "We are ruled by the most repulsive person who has ever resided in the White House," conservative columnist Bret Stephens wrote in the New York Times.
Which is not to say that the president is the most repulsive person in political Washington. Trump obviously has a massive disorder of self-regulation. He has the personality of an alcoholic, said his own chief of staff Susie Wiles in interviews with Vanity Fair magazine.
He's a sick man.
This does not apply to the creepers and profiteers in his environment: Wiles himself, who is Trump's most important support. Or Vice President JD Vance, a political opportunist who probably wants to become president himself. Mike Johnson, the head of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, who holds his nose while organising the majorities for the president. And the senators who wrestle their hands when Trump says something repulsive again, and who continue to support him because anything else would jeopardise their career. Their behaviour is at least as destinable as that of Trump himself.
Even if it does not change anything, one must always point out that those who support Trump, consciously leave the space of human and political decency. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Ralf Neukirch, DER SPIEGEL
