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One day after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in their home in Los Angeles, President Trump shared a lengthy post on TruthSocial claiming that the beloved director had a “raging obsession” with him. He wrote, “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.” Once the message was reshared to X, Instagram, and other platforms, stars rallied to defend the late filmmaker. Jack White, who has criticized Trump throughout his administration, reposted the president’s message and expressed his detestation of it. “Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac, loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this gross, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much,” White wrote. “To use someone’s tragic death to promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin. Shame on you trump and anyone who defends this.”
Maria Shriver, journalist and ex-wife to California Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, also called Trump’s comments “absolutely disgusting” and encouraged people not to “ignore” what he said. “We should all be horrified and disgusted by this inhumane behavior, because that’s what it is. Rob and Michele Reiner were good, kind, loving people,” she writes. “Their family is in deep, unimaginable pain. What kind of human being would share a statement like this, much less a president?”
Below, more messages from stars upset with Trump’s comments, which he later doubled down on, calling Reiner “a deranged person” who “was very bad for our country” during a December 15 press conference at the Oval Office.
Jimmy Kimmel
“Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds a way to do that,” Kimmel said in a December 15 monologue about Trump’s “hateful and vile” comments about Reiner. The late-night host criticized the president for rushing to pursue a “Trump-friendly narrative” and blame Reiner’s death on his liberal politics without knowing what actually happened, as well as for insulting someone who leaves children behind. After playing a clip of the president once again calling Reiner “deranged” in the Oval Office, Kimmel directly addressed Trump voters, telling them that it’s okay “reconsider” their choice. “I know from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathsome atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouth,” he added. “And so we’re gonna do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.”
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Harry Shearer
Shriver, a close family friend of the Reiners, felt “horrified” reading Trump’s TruthSocial message. She also took this moment to remind people that the Reiner family needs “compassion” and not whatever Trump is doing at the moment. She writes, “And furthermore, for the record: Rob and Michele Reiner were devoted parents. They deeply loved all their children and they never gave up trying to care for them. Every single one of them. It’s important to know this and understand this. This is not a time for judgement, for politics or rumors. It’s a time for compassion, for understanding, for love. Just because we have a president who can’t do better doesn’t mean each of us can’t.”
Patrick Schwarzenegger
Shriver’s son, Patrick, followed his mother’s statement with one of his own, echoing his disgust.
Josh Gad
Gad reshared Trump’s message on Instagram Threads, calling it “too low” even for Trump. He writes, “There is no low that is too low for this fucking psychopath. Rob Reiner was 1000 times the man you are and unlike you, he actually cared about the American people. Go paint your hand on your gold fucking toilet and destroy things like the White House. That’s what you do best.”
While talking about the tragedies that happened over the weekend, the women of The View called Trump’s comments “shameful.” Navarro shared, “For Trump to have put that out today, I’m gonna say it, damnit, there’s an American family grieving. This is a tragedy not just for the family, but for all who knew and loved him. And for the president of the United States to make this about him and a way to attack Rob Reiner because he exercised his American right to speak up with what he disagreed with is shameful, it’s disgraceful, and, of all the disgusting things that Donald Trump has done, this is right up there.”
