President uses mass shooting weekend to diagnose filmmaker with made-up syndrome

“Donald Trump no longer seems capable of shocking anyone with the brutality of his language or the heedlessness of his behavior,” David Remnick writes. “And yet the President really did seem to break through to a new level of degradation this week.” This past weekend brought a terrible and rapid succession of violent events: a mass shooting at Brown University; a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach, in Australia; and the death of the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, purportedly at the hands of their troubled son. You wouldn’t expect the President of the United States to make matters even worse than they were, but, of course, he did, ranting on Truth Social about how Reiner was afflicted with “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” “Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?”