Democrats pile on Trump for post celebrating Mueller's death

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

03/21/2026 03:34 PM EDT
Updated: 03/21/2026 05:54 PM EDT


Democrats are skewering President Donald Trump after he proclaimed on Saturday that he was glad former special counsel Robert Mueller had died. “Every day, this president shows his basic indecency and unfitness for office,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wrote on X in response to Trump’s statement.

The diatribe, in which Trump said he was “glad he’s dead” because he “can no longer hurt innocent people,” drew fierce condemnation from Democrats.

“The cruelty is the point,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote on X. “Trump’s goal is to distract you from rising gas prices, his aimless war, ICE abuses, and the Epstein files. Don’t give him what he wants. And may Robert Mueller, a US Marine and lifelong public servant, rest in peace.”

Mueller and the president, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) wrote on X Saturday, “represent polar opposites of what a public servant should be.”. “Yet the President of the United States disgustingly celebrates Mueller’s death simply because he exposed Trump’s efforts to steal the 2016 election,” Goldman said.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/21/democrats-reaction-mueller-death-trump-00839351

[True Dough]

1. The title shouldn't be "Democrats pile on Trump for post celebrating Mueller's death"

It should be "Everyone piles on Trump for post celebrating Mueller's death"

But those ReThugs are useless jellyfish.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. The zombie MAGats agree with him

but then they are inhumane because they are not human, so probably wouldn't be considered as a part of "everyone".

[ColoringFool]

3. Is It Pedantic Of Me To Point Out That "Pile On" Is A Negative Term....

Like kicking when the person is down? (Why yes, I did check the connotation and denotation.)

[Prairie Gates]

4. Politico manages to make Trump the victim of a "pile on" now?

Politico is garbage.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. It's red meat for OUR masses

since the RW media machine always depicts us as "weak" and "in disarray".

[Bayard]

5. What Goldman said

[moniss]

7. Another diversion from Epstein. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Robert Mueller was a true hero, especially when compared to someone else

LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam.

RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T19:28:00.904Z

[Beartracks]

9. So, wow, no Republicans? Just the Republican crickets?

Big surprise.



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[SeattleVet]

10. But say ANYTHING negative about Saint Charlie and see what happens.

What an asshole.

[mdbl]

11. Trump is very ugly. Ugly people do and say ugly things.

They can't help it. Most of them are Magats.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. MaddowBlog-By celebrating Mueller's death, Trump steps on lazy lies he's apparently forgotten

If Mueller “exonerated” him, and his findings “could not have been better” for the president, why is Trump celebrating Mueller’s death?

Remember in 2019, when Trump falsely told the public that Mueller “exonerated” him, and the special counsel’s findings “could not have been better”?

Trump’s celebration of Mueller’s passing suggests he’s forgotten his own lazy lies.
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-23T12:04:38.088Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/by-celebrating-muellers-death-trump-steps-on-lazy-lies-hes-apparently-forgotten

In modern American life, the list of officials and political figures who have enjoy broad and bipartisan support is vanishingly small, but Robert Mueller was on it. Journalist Garrett Graff summarized, “Bob Mueller might have been the last person in the US government that both parties agreed upon and respected beyond reproach.”....

Donald Trump, however, didn’t quite see it that way. After Mueller died on Friday at age 81, the incumbent American president responded in a uniquely Trumpian fashion.....

The written statement was jarring to the extent that it offered a fresh reminder about Trump’s indecency, classlessness and fundamentally twisted character, though it was not too surprising. After all, the president’s ugly public reaction to filmmaker Rob Reiner’s death three months earlier removed any lingering doubts about Trump’s capacity for crude offensiveness.

What’s more, the Republican incumbent has a political incentive to continue his assault on the former special counsel’s findings: Mueller and his report made it unambiguously clear that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election in 2016, specifically because of the Kremlin’s desire to help elevate Trump to the White House. Mueller similarly found that Trump’s political operation was aware of Russia’s interference, expected to benefit from it and took a series of deliberate steps to obstruct the federal investigation into the scandal......

While these details were largely forgotten, in March 2019, Trump agreed that Mueller served “honorably” as the special counsel, and soon after, the president told reporters, referring to a document he clearly had not read, “The Mueller report was great. It could not have been better.”

Six years ago this week, the Republican published a tweet in which he said the Mueller report had led to his “total EXONERATION.”

He was clearly and unambiguously lying, but the point at the time was simple: Trump hoped to convince Americans that Mueller had delivered a victory for the president and his political operation.

Six years later, the question for the White House is simple. If Mueller “exonerated” Trump, and Mueller’s findings “could not have been better” for the president, why is Trump celebrating Mueller’s death?

I did not post trump's actual attack on Robert Mueller. That attack has been posted on a number of threads. trump obviously lied about the Mueller report exonerating him.