Gracie Abrams Slams Donald Trump’s ‘Poisonous & Vile Narcissism’ Amid Mass Shootings, Rob Reiner Death

Gracie Abrams is shining a light on all of the headline-making tragedies that have occurred over the past few days — and calling out President Donald Trump for his insensitivity in the face of them.

Sharing a photo of a candle flame on her Instagram Story on Tuesday (Dec. 16), the singer began by writing, “I am beyond heartbroken for the victims at Bondi. Devastated for their families during the holiday, a time meant for gathering and for light. I feel sick inside for the victims and for the community at Brown. Students on their campus. What are we talking about?”

“The conditions in Gaza are beyond the pale,” she continued, referencing the devastation survivors of the two-year Israel-Hamas war are currently enduring. “Earthshattering pain. The tarps the Palestinian people are living under are being whipped by the wind and the rain through the mud. Total desecration.”

Two mass shootings took place within 24 hours over the weekend, with a gunman killing at least 15 people Sunday (Dec. 14) on Bondi Beach in Australia during a Hanukkah celebration. On the other side of the world, a shooter opened fire on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., taking the lives of two people and injuring nine others.

Also on Sunday, Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home with apparent stab wounds, shortly after which local police arrested the couple’s 32-year-old son, Nick, on homicide charges. But despite the violence happening in the country he leads, the president took the weekend’s events as an opportunity to insult the When Harry Met Sally filmmaker.

“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

The disrespectful post incensed countless people, including Abrams. “Within 24 hours of the most unimaginable tragedy a family can endure, we see the President yet again reveal the most poisonous and vile narcissism maybe in the history of humanity,” she wrote of the twice-impeached politician’s words. “Indefensible.”

“It is getting harder to find the words to describe the pain in the world,” the musician added. “I am lighting a candle for everybody who is hurting.”

Abrams isn’t the only artist in disbelief over Trump’s message. Jack White also slammed the president’s “vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much” in a post on Instagram, adding, “To use someone’s tragic death to promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin.”

Billie Eilish — who reshared White’s post on her Story — had words as well for the mass shootings that happened over the weekend. “my heart goes out to all of the victims & their loved ones,” she posted. “raise your voice, work for change, & vote out anyone who’s not willing to reform gun policy.”