"Donald Trump enjoys speaking ill of the dead. He is instinctively boorish and hates to be tied down by the conventional rules of civility that are predicated on the ideal of human equality. When John McCain died in 2018, a White House staffer had the flag lowered to half-mast, a perfectly normal gesture to a late senator. Trump countermanded that order and refused to pay tribute to McCain, only backtracking after a week of criticism."
"He reportedly asked staffers, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." Last December, when the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, were brutally murdered, seemingly by their son, Trump wrote a remarkably nasty post saying that the killing 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.""
Donald Trump frequently speaks ill of the dead and rejects conventional civility grounded in human equality. When John McCain died in 2018, a White House staffer lowered the flag to half-mast and Trump countermanded the order, refusing to pay tribute until pressured to backtrack after a week of criticism. He resisted visiting a French cemetery for World War I dead, reportedly asking staffers, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." After Rob Reiner and his wife's murder, Trump posted that the killing was "reportedly due to... TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME." Given that history, he nonetheless posted public praise for Jesse Jackson upon his death.
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