‘Good, I’m glad he’s dead’: Trump’s insensitive comments about the dead hit a new level | CNN Politics

For years, President Donald Trump has offered crass and insensitive comments about people who died — especially his foes. But on Saturday, he explicitly celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, writing, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” As a special counsel, Mueller probed Trump and his 2016 campaign as the leader of the Russia investigation during the president’s first term. “Robert Mueller just died,” Trump posted on social media shortly after the death was first reported. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” While it was the culmination of a yearslong series of such comments by Trump, it was hardly an isolated incident. In 2017, one of the first big controversies of Trump’s first term was his insensitive alleged comments to the widow of a soldier who had just died. Trump was accused of telling the widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” And while Trump claimed it had been a “very respectful conversation,” the White House eventually seemed to tacitly confirm the comments. After John McCain died in August 2018, Trump in early 2019 resumed his yearslong attacks on the former Arizona senator.