Let's begin with a different perspective on the latest predictable outrage perpetrated by President Donald Trump.

Rob Reiner, the wonderfully talented Hollywood legend, and his wife, film producer Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in their home on Dec. 14. Their son Nick Reiner has been charged with murder.

Awful stuff. And then Trump made it worse, gloating about Reiner's death in a mid-morning post the next day on his website Truth Social.

Trump started and ended his 117-word screed with some insipid condolences typical for this sort of circumstance. But he dedicated about 90 of those words to making the deaths of Reiner and his wife all about how Trump is the real victim here.

As you can probably imagine, this sparked a fierce backlash online, with many people outraged that Trump could not say just something graceful about a gruesome tragedy, or at least

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