{"id":193732,"date":"2025-12-15T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193732\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:37:07","slug":"trump-mocks-rob-reiner-claims-death-was-due-to-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193732\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump mocks Rob Reiner; claims death was due to ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US\u2019s major political parties are condemning Donald Trump<\/a> after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on what he described as the acclaimed Hollywood director\u2019s dislike of him.<\/p>\n

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, Mr Trump took to social media to call the director \u201ctortured and struggling\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also claimed Reiner died \u201cdue to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump then pivoted to praising his own accomplishments, asserting that Reiner\u2019s alleged \u201craging obsession\u201d and \u201cobvious paranoia\u201d toward him stood in contrast to his administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also maintained that he had \u201csurpassed all goals and expectations of greatness \u2026 with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before\u201d.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles police on Monday confirmed the Reiners\u2019 32-year-old son, Nick, had been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the deaths of his parents<\/a>. His bail was set at $4m.<\/p>\n

Celebrities and lawmakers, meanwhile, were swift to lambast Mr Trump over what they described as \u201cpetty\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a disgusting and vile statement,\u201d actor Patrick Schwarzenegger wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Similarly, television host Whoopi Goldberg, who described Reiner as her friend and \u201cquite an amazing man,\u201d condemned Mr Trump, referencing Trump\u2019s own attacks on critics of the far-right political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead in September.<\/p>\n

That killing prompted reprisals from the White House against those who cited Kirk\u2019s history of hostile rhetoric toward immigrants, women and other marginalized groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Goldberg said: \u201cI don\u2019t understand the man in the White House. He spoke at length about Charlie Kirk and about caring, and then this is what he puts out. Have you no shame? No shame at all? Can you get any lower? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, California\u2019s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X: \u201cThis is a sick man.\u201d<\/p>\n

US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, wrote: \u201cThis is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Greene also seemingly alluded to Nick Reiner\u2019s past experiences with addiction and homelessness, writing, \u201cMany families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It\u2019s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Greene\u2019s fellow Republican US House member Thomas Massie struck a similar chord.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Kentucky representative said: \u201cRegardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.\u201d Massie also said he challenged anyone in his party \u2013 including vice-president JD Vance and White House staff \u2013 to defend Mr Trump\u2019s commentary.<\/p>\n

Mr Reiner had long been a vocal critic of Trump. In a 2017 interview with Variety, he said Mr Trump was \u201cmentally unfit\u201d to be president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Mr Reiner warned the Guardian that the US could slide into autocracy if Mr Trump successfully ran for a second presidency in 2024 \u2013 which he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US\u2019s major political parties are condemning Donald Trump after the president…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,1042,60,1094,386],"class_list":["post-193732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-report","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}