The most extreme victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome is President Donald J. Trump himself.

And that has never been more apparent than in Trump’s post on Truth Social on Monday, after the younger son of director Rob Reiner and his wife was arrested as the prime suspect in their murder over the weekend.

Rob Reiner happened to have detected the root cause of Trump’s derangement at his first encounter with The Donald back in June of 1988. Reiner had been in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with Billy Crystal for the Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks fight when they encountered the man who is now our president.

“We just met him prior to the fight,” Reiner would recall in a 2017 Politico podcast. “We talked with him for a while.”

Reiner would not be able to recall what exactly they talked about. He would only remember the subject to which Trump repeatedly returned.

“I have worked with people who have the biggest egos in the world, you know, actors,” Reiner—himself an actor and a director of hit movies—said. “They have huge egos, and, you know, politicians have egos too. You wouldn’t go into that profession, whether it’s an actor or a politician, unless you had a need to be liked.”

But Trump was singular when it came to obsessive self-regard and involvement.

“I’ve never met somebody with as big an ego. I couldn’t believe it,” Reiner remembered. “He’s meeting Billy… He’s meeting me, and yet it’s only about him. And so I thought, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’ Everything that we talked about came........

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