**DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in April of 2024**
Donald Trump has truly done an inconceivable number of horrifying, disgusting, and sickening things over the years — but this one may actually take the cake.
The scandal-ridden former president has made headlines over the last week in connection to his attendance at a wake for NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
Trump, in true Trump fashion, did not pass up a single opportunity to make the entire ordeal about himself, essentially turning the whole thing into little more than a MAGA PR plug.
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In fact, during an interview with Brian Kilmeade after the funeral, Trump openly bragged about how people simply fawned over him when he made his entrance.
“I support the police,” Trump told Kilmeade. “I would say at the highest level of any president by far. Maybe double or triple. And they knew that. That’s why when I walked into that funeral parlor, it was like love.”
The self-promotion, while disgusting in its own right, was far from surprising, as it’s what we’ve come to know and expect from the disgraced 45th President of the United States.
However, it was a photo that he posted to his Truth Social account on the day after Diller’s funeral that truly made our jaws drop and our stomachs turn.
The very next evening, Trump took to Truth Social with a photo of Diller’s casket being lowered into the ground.
As if that weren’t disturbing enough, centered in the middle of the photo was a large Trump sticker stuck to the fallen officer’s casket:
I’m sure the family was responsible for putting the sticker on the casket — or, at least, I certainly hope they are — but Trump’s decision to take a photo of that and post it to the world is a level of sick, disgusting narcissism that I truly don’t even have words for.
Featured image via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, under Creative Commons license 2.0
