A new low for the Very Stable Genius

VSG rallies are known to be sewers of cult worship and meanness. Still, in the past four years there have been a whole lot of them, and they never reached this level of rottenness:

During his Merry Christmas rally at Kellogg Arena on Wednesday, President Donald Trump singled out U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, after she voted for impeachment.

"You have Dingell from Michigan, have you ever heard of her?" Trump said to his charged-up crowd of supporters. "Debbie Dingell, that’s a real beauty."

Trump was upset because he said that he gave her the "A-plus treatment, not the B treatment or the C treatment" after her husband, longtime U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, died in February. He called for flags to be lowered and said he offered up the Capitol Rotunda for his memorial.

Trump seemed to say the word “Rotunda,” as if he had something to do with John Dingell’s lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. But Dingell didn’t lie in state before a funeral in Washington and his burial at Arlington National Cemetery and, even if he had, control of the Rotunda belongs to the Congress, not to the president.

"She called me up and said it was the nicest thing and John would have been so pleased," Trump said, adding that Dingell said John would be happily looking down from heaven at the ceremony. 

"Maybe he's looking up," Trump said, intimating that Dingell ended up in hell, instead. "I don't know. Let's assume he's looking down."

The crowd cheered the insult.

Several aspects of what makes Trump such an unfit president and a sick person are on display. There's the transactional lens through which he views everything. "Deals." "I offered her a really nice way to commemorate her husband and then she votes to impeach me!", as if she might not have a set of principles that drive her to make a particular choice on the impeachment matter. Then there's a related VSG impulse, the expectation that his ring will be kissed.  Then there's the disinterest in how government works (the president can't offer the Capitol Rotunda). Then there's the aspect that understandably is garnering the most outrage: the hell insinuation. Finally, and most significantly, there's utter disregard for the grief experienced by family and close friends of recently deceased people.

People are expendable and everyone and everything has a price for the VSG. If there were ever the slightest cooling among his base of slavish devotees, he'd cut them loose in a New York minute.