Donald Trump has sunk to a new disgusting low by twice mocking the late film director Rob Reiner. Along with his wife, Michele Reiner, Rob was found dead in his California home. The police have since arrested the couple’s son, Nick, on suspicion of murder.
The US president said:
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, 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, sometimes referred to as TDS.
Reiner was an outspoken critic of Trump. Remarkably, the orange one continued his disgusting screed:
He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
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Trump has a pattern of melodramatic criticism of anyone who opposes him. It won’t come as a surprise, then, that Reiner spoke against the orange would-be dictator:
BREAKING: As we honor Rob Reiner, let’s remember he was one of the staunchest defenders of immigrants and American democracy. He truly was one of Donald Trump’s biggest foils. Rest in peace, Rob. pic.twitter.com/Hn7JOvHoP9
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) December 15, 2025
Reiner was certainly unafraid to speak out, about Trump and any number of issues afflicting the US and the world. As political commentator David Doel has pointed out Reiner – the son of famous actor, writer and director Carl Reiner – grew up in enormous privilege, just as Trump did. But while Trump’s privilege turned him into a hateful and terrible person, Reiner saw his as a spur to help those less fortunate and became an ardent campaigner on social issues, especially around inequality, civil rights and democracy:
Reiner also considered Trump a major threat to the US, going as far as to set up the ‘Committee to Investigate Russia‘ (CIR) after Trump was accused of winning his first presidential term with the assistance and interference of Russian president Vladimir Putin – the so-called ‘Russiagate‘.
Unrepentant
Trump being Trump, however, meant that he went back a second time to attack Reiner’s memory, this time without even bothering to preface his comments with an observation that the killing of Reiner and his wife was a “very sad thing”. He said:
Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all, he was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
He knew it was false, in fact it was the exact opposite, but he said that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it.
I think he hurt himself career-wise, he became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome.
So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.
So disgusting was this rambling, tone-deaf nonsense that even a handful of Republican party politicians felt they had to speak out. Congressman Thomas Massie condemned the “inappropriate and disrespectful” comments about the Reiners’ brutal deaths and said he expected most of his party colleagues and Trump’s staff to ignore it:
Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it. pic.twitter.com/j3dvzRxLQJ
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 15, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene, once one of the temu president’s most rabid supporters castigated him for trying to boost himself personally and politically off a family heartbreak:
Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak.
This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies.
Many… pic.twitter.com/uVd3lGVEgm
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) December 15, 2025
The Trump regime has demonised and persecuted those it considers spoke even insensitively about the murder of ‘Christian nationalist’ Charlie Kirk. It is hard to imagine the amount of pearl-clutching moral panic that would have ensued had anyone dared speak of Kirk in the manner Trump has spoken of Reiner – who, incidentally, unequivocally condemned Kirk’s murder in September 2025.
Rob Reiner was a human being – thoughtful, compassionate, moral, humane and with a keen awareness and care that life for billions was far harder than he had experienced. In that and in every other imaginable way, he was as far above Donald Trump as Einstein above pond scum.
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