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Times Opinion: Read Trump’s Reiner post, then ask yourself if this man should have launch codes

Photo by Michael Tran via AFP/Getty Images/TNS / Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner attend the Human Rights Campaign's 2025 LA Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025.
Photo by Michael Tran via AFP/Getty Images/TNS / Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner attend the Human Rights Campaign's 2025 LA Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025. Photo by Michael Tran via AFP/Getty Images/TNS / Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner attend the Human Rights Campaign's 2025 LA Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025.

It’s time to ask the question plainly: Has President Donald Trump finally, fully lost it?

The latest indication that Trump is no longer just instinctively belligerent and cruel, but perhaps is experiencing something even more psychologically alarming, came Monday, in the form of (what else?) a social media post.

“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, commenting on the weekend murders of the prominent Hollywood couple.

Then, off the cliff. Trump’s post claimed, baselessly and ridiculously, that the actor-director’s death was “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.”

There was some derangement going on here, all right.