Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities

Photo: Rob Reiner speaking at the 2025 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Collider’s Directors on Directing”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California – July 24, 2025. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr. CC BY-SA 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Maya Yang. The Guardian – December 15, 2025.

Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US’s major political parties are condemning Donald Trump after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on what he described as the acclaimed Hollywood director’s dislike of him. After the apparent killings of Reiner, 78, and his 68-year-old wife, Michele, who were found dead at their home Sunday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, Trump took to social media to call the director “tortured and struggling”. Trump also claimed Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”. […]

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