The phrase, "but his Tweets" proved bittersweet in recent years.
President Donald Trump's social media musings can be funny, raw, and revealing. And, on occasion, some wish he kept his thoughts to himself. After four years of a doddering Commander in Chief, even those wary of President Trump's previous X rants were eager to read them again following his 2024 presidential victory.
Yet even the president's staunchest backers blanched after reading his "ode" to the late Rob Reiner. President Trump excoriated the director following his murder, allegedly at the hands of his troubled adult son, Nick Reiner. You don't address the dead in that fashion, especially hours after the person's passing.
Reiner's past anti-Trump comments were consistently cruel and ill-informed, and the president still did the wrong thing. More recently, President Trump's digital farewell to the late Robert Mueller wasn't as cold, but it still lacked the grace we expect from a leader.
Mueller was the point person behind one of the biggest political hits in modern memory, but death deserves a moment of silence.
The usual suspects on the Left raged against both posts, but their outrage comes with a massive asterisk. They've been behaving far, far worse for some time. And even their cooler heads haven't had the spine to call out their own bad behavior.
Case in point: Podcast nightmare Jennifer Welch hasn't been cast out of the movement.
Jennifer Welch: "We have to go after these MAGA men. One example would be Jesse Watters."
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 19, 2026
"This man talks incessantly about masculinity… and that's a part of fascism, propelling this form of toxic masculinity."pic.twitter.com/9Za35sL7fX
We only need to look back at Charlie Kirk's murder to see how ghoulish the president's critics could be. The Left's reaction to the shocking assassination isn't easily forgotten. While conservatives, by and large, treat a liberal icon's death as a tragedy, full stop, the Left embraced Kirk's passing as a moment for celebration.
You couldn't visit social media without seeing jubilation at every dark corner of the web. Hollywood had a rare chance to do the right thing, and most artists couldn't rise to the occasion. The 2025 Emmy awards, held mere days after the assassination, lacked a single voice mourning the late leader.
When Jamie Lee Curtis defied her peers by sharing some heartfelt words for Kirk, the hard-Left blowback was so profound that she later quasi-backpedaled.
Now, some liberals are openly admitting their plans to celebrate the 79-year-old Trump's eventual passing.
Radio talker Charlamagne tha God said the president's Mueller comments would have long-term effects.
“I mean, you’ve already ruined yours because you’re, you know, going to go down as the worst president of all time because you don’t give a damn about democracy, wiping your a– with the Constitution, and on pace to lead this country into the worst financial crisis of all time...But you are also putting yourself into a position that when you pass, people are going to treat it like Mardi Gras in New Orleans.”
Does anyone think that wouldn't happen if the president had held his tongue over Mueller's RussiaGate travesty? And consider Ana Navarro of "The View" fame. She, too, claims that the president's less-than-gracious comments will translate into a liberal euphoria when he leaves this mortal coil.
"He's a mean person with a dark heart, verbal diarrhea, and no impulse control. Karma never forgets ... He's 80 years old. He's got obvious visible physical ailments, and there will be people that, when he passes away — as we will all pass away — will write these types of things and celebrate. If you don't condemn it today from him, you don't have a right to condemn it from anybody."
One, Trump is 79. How many times has "The View" crew taken its side to task for its ghoulish behavior, be it cheering Kirk's death or celebrating Tesla dealerships under attack? It's only a matter of time before Welch returns to the ABC talker.
The president's big advantage over his predecessors? He still has the very worst enemies.
