A deranged person

First published in the Brunswick Beacon, 12.25.25

Trump calls female reporters “ugly,” “stupid,” and “piggy.” He mocked a disabled reporter, encouraging the crowd’s jeers as he waved his arms spastically and taunted, “You ought to see the guy!”

Trump’s nephew, Fred, has a disabled son. Fred says Trump told him, “I should let my son die so I could move down to Florida.”

On January 6, Trump sicced the mob on VP Pence, who, Trump tweeted, “didn’t have the courage” to overturn the election. When they chanted, “Hang Mike Pence,” Trump said, “Mike deserves it.”

Asked about Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump bragged about his ballroom. He trivialized the Brown University killings, saying, “Things happen.”

In a shocking, unhinged rant, Trump said Rob and Michele Reiner were murdered, “due to the anger [Rob] caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.”

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said, “I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar.” Ignoring bipartisan outrage and disgust, Trump doubled down: “He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.”

Donald’s niece, Mary, is a clinical psychologist. She says Trump is “beyond narcissism: his ego is fragile and must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he’s not what he claims to be. He can never escape the fact that he is and always will be a terrified little boy.”

Only a narcissist would make the Reiner murders about himself. Only a weak, terrified little boy would use them to stroke his pathetic ego. The “deranged person” with “a mind-crippling disease” is Trump—the person you pray your child never becomes.

Linda McConnell Baker

Leland