'Trump's mental illness is killing people': Rob Reiner slams president's response as coronavirus ravages US
Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner has not stopped slamming POTUS Donald Trump amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Reiner took to Twitter to share that "Donald Trump's mental illness is killing people". His latest message is a much more blunt version of his previous tweets where he has seemingly suggested that Trump could be an accessory to murder.
Reiner had shared, "I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me if you’re the most influential person in America and you tell the public that a deadly viral pandemic is a hoax & countless citizens accept that as reality, do nothing to protect themselves then end up dead, you might be an accessory."
It was just last week that Reiner had said that Trump was "causing people in NY to die". Recently, he had also shared, "It’s not possible to have a worse human being handling this crisis." Many social media users have agreed with him and have taken to expressing their support online.
One such user shared, "The fact that he knew about this in early January and the next two months he played golf nine times and didn’t confront this should be alarming to everybody," while another user added, "Let’s all get real: Trump is a symptom of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has always been the party of disease, chaos and death. Since forever. With authority comes full accountability."
A third wrote, "He is killing people intentionally, he knows what he is doing." "Better to end the stigma of mental health. The illness that kills is 'ignorance, incompetence & ego,'" added another user.
Trump has received a lot of backlash from people in Hollywood as well as politicians for appearing to downplay the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic and not really equipping the US with proper leadership or resources to counter the growing cases.
The United States has seen a confirmed number of around 188,592 coronavirus cases so far while there have been around 4,056 deaths. On Tuesday, March 31, Trump warned that a "very painful" two weeks awaits the country as it grapples with a massive surge in coronavirus cases.
Trump has warned that as many as 240,000 Americans could be killed amid the coronavirus pandemic. While talking at a press conference at the White House, Trump shared, "This is going to be a very painful, a very, very painful two weeks. I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead."
According to leading health experts, social distancing is the only way to prevent the community spread of the coronavirus even if it led to a massive disruption of the country's economy.
Coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx shared, "There's no magic vaccine or therapy. It's just behaviors, each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days."
Birx also spoke about a chart at the press conference which shows a range of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the United States with current efforts at prevention taken into account. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr Anthony Fauci, shared, "No-one is denying that we're going through a very, very difficult time. That's what it is," BBC reports.