Donald Trump has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick human being” after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Mueller, a decorated Vietnam war veteran who led a politically explosive investigation into Trump, died on Friday aged 81, triggering a callous reaction from the US president.

“Robert Mueller just died,” Trump responded quickly on his Truth Social platform. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

Even by the president’s own norm-shredding standards, the comment was unusually harsh. There was a chorus of opprobrium from the “Never Trump” movement in his own Republican party.

Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, wrote on X: “@realDonaldTrump you are a vile disgusting man. Petty and pathetic, you are a hypocrite who reeks of weakness and insecurities with no moral core. Regardless of the politics, the American people should be embarrassed and ashamed for ever having entrusted you with leadership.”

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    The day Trump dies, I’m celebrating. I plan to treat it like a national holiday every year…with fireworks if I can help it.

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    He is a child rapist and genocidal warmongering mass murderer. Gloating over one death is a drop in an ocean of toxic waste.

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      And he has been rewarded for this behavior his entire life because our system has no laws against the pedofile parasite class

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    I can’t think of a single redeeming feature of Trump. He is possibly the worst person on the planet.

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    This just in: Child rapist is a shitty person.

    But how about that Dow guys, why aren’t we paying attention to what really matters?

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        Bomb falling sound

        Sorry I can’t hear you over all the munitions they’re suddenly dropping on various countries we weren’t at war with. I think they asked how is the Dow???

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          Turns out bombing key geopolitical supply routes and capital stocks is not only horrifyingly immoral but bad for the economy

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            But horrifyingly immoral usually boosts The Economy ™!! There’s just no way they could have seen this one coming. :( :( :( /s

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      Funny we’re reading this in British media, because the Americans are entirely confined to the Cuck Chair of a corporate media desk

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    I beleive that there will be world wide celebration when Trump dies, no matter when, no matter how. That will be a good day.

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      I’m afraid there will be so many crocodile tears “thoughts and prayers” tweets about his death

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        People who have been actively ignoring everything he’s said and done for the last decade will be weeping and wailing in the streets at this great loss to humanity.

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        As a Canadian I refuse to ever step foot in the USA again because of what Turmp has done and watching the American people celebrate it.

        That said, I will gladly take a day to visit just so I can leave a steaming log of shit on his grave.

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    Day by day, word by word, action by action, confirms that he is the bloated corrupt personification of everything that is wrong with us.

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    “Trump does some bullshit, many people upset, he remains unimpeached.” Just another day ending in -y.

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      Impeachment without consequence is jut a footnote for the history books. He’s got two asterisks to his name, he’s still President. That’s the problem.

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    Trump: “Mueller’s report completely exonerated me.”

    Also Trump: “I’m glad Mueller is dead.”

    And people somehow think this lines up.

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    “He can no longer hurt innocent people”
    How that disgusting, child raping, schoolgirl bombing, ShitGoblin can say that is just astonishing. Fucks sake.

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    Breaking news! This just in. Trump is a hypocrite.

    It’s kind of weird people keep pointing this out, like eventually the people onboard the hypocrisy are suddenly going to change their ways. They aren’t. They support trump because they wish they could get away with the shit he gets away with everyday. And they love him for it.

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      “I have met some very bad people … none as bad as Trump,” Epstein reportedly wrote in the email, which was released by House lawmakers this week in a trove of files

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        I get what you’re saying, but when 90% of them are like this (and have been for decades) mightn’t it be time to dispense with the pretense that “real” Christians are love-thy-neighbor, feed-the-poor types? Real Christians are the ones who exist in reality. In the US at least, this is Christianity.

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            The people who chose this man as their champion are not responsive to shame.

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                That’s awesome. Your coworker sounds like a really cool person. I just don’t think they are representative of most Christians in this country. If anything, your friend is the “Christian”, while the congregation they left behind are Christians.

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                  You do understand that starting their own church isn’t necessarily a bad thing, right?

                  People who have a faith aren’t all koolaid drinkers. Many of them live their lives in service to others.

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              The radical leftist communist preacher who gave people free food and healthcare and demanded that everyone provide those around them with the same care and generosity and that one spends on themselves?

              They use his name, but follow none of his teaching or example and openly oppose everything he stood for.

              The Bible is a horrible, sick collection of twisted, disgusting documents spanning many genres, but whether he was real or mythical, Jesus is a respectable role model even for an angry atheist like myself.

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                I read “this man” to mean Trump. And I agree that people who support him have no shame.

                But similar to others in this thread, I do know leftist people who identify as Christian and do follow the actual teachings and lessons of Jesus. They may not be the majority of self-proclaimed Christians in US, but they absolutely exist.