Greetings! Donald Trump is being pummeled from all sides of the political spectrum for his vile Truth Social rant yesterday denigrating Rob Reiner after the murder of the acclaimed director and  his wife Michele. (you can read it here in case you missed the link yesterday). The pathological POTUS failed to recognize that the moment called for a gesture of unity, tolerance and reassurance for a nation shell-shocked by the spasms of violence over the awful weekend. Here’s my suggestion for what Trump should have written if he possessed a single cell of decency.  “Melania and I extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Rob and Michele Reiner who were murdered in their home Sunday afternoon. While Rob Reiner and I had different political views, that never stopped me from admiring the skill and artistry he brought to a decades-long entertainment career on both sides of the camera. He made significant and lasting contributions to one of America’s greatest industries and exports.  His films brought joy and happiness to millions of people around the world, and they deserve to stand the test of time.”  Worth noting: Trump’s ghoulish post prompted thousands of comments on the far-right Truth Social, virtually all negative...Vanity Fair MAGAzine: That’s what  Showbiz 411 cleverly calls Vanity Fair after publishing a gushing group profile of the children of MAGA luminaries Ted Cruz, Kristi Noem, RFK Jr, Lee Zeldin, and Howard Lutnick. “There’s not a bit of reporting involved, just wet kisses,” hisses writer and veteran Tinseltown chronicler Roger Friedman. “No mention of Barron Trump who’s MIA in the world. No talk of the RFK Jr brood’s various issues except to say one of them is ‘a model in Milan’”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! The season of joy and peace took an ominous turn over the weekend as two acts of gun violence darkened the holiday spirit in America and Australia. The only positive kernel in the senseless killings was that Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim fruit vendor near Sydney’s Bondi Beach single-handedly disarmed one of the two gunmen. I repeat, it was a Muslim man, in an act of selfless heroism, who neutralized a gun-toting maniac at a Jewish celebration thus preventing a horrific act of antisemitism from becoming even worse...Worst Trump Truth Social post ever? Here’s some of what our president had to say this morning on Truth Social about the likely murders of Hollywood director and outspoken Trump critic Rob Reiner and his wife: “(Reiner) passed away...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...He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump.” Classic (and disturbing) display of Trump’s utter lack of compassion and empathy...Crickets: Virtually no one is talking about CBS’s hour-long interview with Erika Kirk, the widow of slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, on Saturday night. The taped program, hosted by Bari Weiss, aired just a few hours after the Brown University mass shooting, which made for a jarring split screen...Big League Politics keeps publishing pleas for donations from former Trump boot-licker Rudy Giuliani so he can pay for his legal defense.  Rudy writes, “A Democrat Attorney General is making me stand in a rigged trial for bogus state-level crimes, because she knows that not even the most powerful man on the face of the planet – President Trump – can save me with a federal pardon in state court”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard