Trump twice made highly critical public remarks about Rob Reiner after the director was killed, first in a social media post and then in comments to reporters at the White House.

What Trump said online

  • Trump wrote on his social platform that Reiner and his wife were killed “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.”
  • He described Reiner as “known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” while calling the couple’s deaths “very tragic” in the same message.

What he said to reporters

  • Asked at the White House whether he stood by the post, Trump said, “I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.”
  • He added that he was “not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form” and said he thought Reiner was “very bad for our country,” linking him to what he called hoaxes about Trump and Russia.

Political and public reaction

  • The remarks drew rare public pushback from some Republicans and conservative commentators, who called the comments inappropriate given that Reiner had just been murdered.
  • Coverage in major outlets and on forums has focused on the unusually harsh tone toward a recently killed political critic and on the broader pattern of Trump using the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” for opponents.

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