It didn't take long for US President Donald Trump, the world's most insatiable publicity vampire, to make the deaths of film director Rob Reiner and his wife all about him.
Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. One of their sons, Nick Reiner, has been booked into jail on suspicion of carrying out the attack.
Instead of sharing a simple note of condolence, Mr Trump posted a message on Truth Social on Monday in which he (or an account-handling minion) suggested Reiner had been killed because he didn't like the President.
“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 wrote.
“He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession [with me]".
Donald Trump posted this message on Truth Social on December 15.
Mr Trump held a particular dislike for Reiner because of the filmmaker's political views.
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