"Good, I'm glad he's dead": Why Trump Always Makes Inappropriate Remarks About the Dead.
March 21, CNN in the United States reports.
For years, President Donald Trump has made crude and inappropriate remarks about the dead - especially against his enemies.
Saturday, he explicitly celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Trump wrote, "Good, I'm glad he's dead."
As a special prosecutor, Mueller led the "Russia investigation" during Trump's first term, investigating Trump and his 2016 campaign team.
"Robert Mueller just passed away," Trump posted on social media: "Great, I'm glad he's dead. He can't hurt innocent people anymore!"
This is the culmination of Trump's years of such remarks, but it is by no means an isolated incident.
After John McCain's death in August 2018, Trump resumed attacking him for years in early 2019.
He criticized the Republican for blocking Trump's healthcare bill, saying, "I've never been a fan of John McCain, and I never will be."
Trump also incorrectly claimed that the deceased person "ranked last in class," and falsely accused him of handing over the "Stein dossier" to the FBI before the 2016 election.
In late 2019, Trump attacked another legislative opponent who died that year - John Dingell, a long-time congressman, suggesting that this Michigan Democrat was "looking up from hell."
Dingell's wife, Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, responded: "I am preparing for the first holiday season without my beloved. You have put me into a low that you cannot imagine, and your hurtful words have made my healing journey more difficult."
By 2021, Trump's attacks on the dead became even more timely.
Less than 24 hours after the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Trump issued a statement criticizing him for "making a big mistake on Iraq" and called him a "typical RINO (Republican in Name Only)" who was always "the first to attack other Republicans."
Powell had publicly criticized Trump and voted against him across party lines in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Moreover, Trump's tendency has indeed intensified in recent months.
In December, he shared a series of attacks targeting the Kennedy family just hours after the death of Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, who died of advanced brain cancer.
This was only two weeks after Trump made one of his most inappropriate remarks about a deceased critic.
And please note, this is not just a recently deceased person, but someone brutally murdered.
Shortly after director Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered, Trump suggested that Reiner died from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
"He went crazy due to his obsessive fascination with President Donald J. Trump, and his obvious paranoia has reached new heights recently," Trump added.
Many Republicans criticized Trump's post.
But just three months later, Trump came again.
This time, however, he wasn't just making vulgar remarks about the dead, but openly celebrating their deaths.
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