Trump Blames Tragic Death of Rob Reiner and Wife on 'TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME'

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: Mediaite.com

President Donald Trump seized on a shocking and still-developing report about the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, using the moment to settle political scores rather than acknowledge the gravity of the allegations.

According to reports circulating late Sunday, Reiner and his wife were allegedly killed by their son. Authorities have not publicly substantiated the claims, and key details remain unclear. Nonetheless, the story spread rapidly online, prompting reactions across the political spectrum before basic facts were established.

Trump responded on social media Monday morning by asserting that Reiner’s long-running and very public opposition to him was the real cause of the couple’s deaths. The former president framed the alleged tragedy as a byproduct of what he derisively labeled “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” portraying Reiner as consumed by political animus and suggesting that this fixation led to fatal consequences. Trump posted on Truth Social:

"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. 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!"

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-blames-tragic-death-of-rob-reiner-and-wife-on-trump-derangement-syndrome/

[highplainsdem]

1. K&R. Earlier thread in General Discussion:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220867815

[Mr. Sparkle]

11. One's a tweet and the other one is a news story

if you dont mind , I will leave it up the the mods what they want to do.

[highplainsdem]

12. I'm not suggesting you delete your post here - I recced it. I linked to my thread so people can see

more replies about what Trump said.

[progree]

46. It's a dupe violation only when there are 2 (or more) such posts in LBN

A post being in LBN, and an earlier post being in GD or any other non-LBN forum do not count as dupes as far as the LBN dupe rule.

That's because one can't expect people to search the entirety of DU looking for the same or similar article before posting in LBN.

And even if the story were posted in 15 other forums, the purpose of LBN is to present all important news of the last 12 hours in one place (LBN) so that people don't have to read all of DU to catch up on important news.

And of course your point about the earlier post being a tweet is relevant too -- if that tweet post was posted in LBN, it would almost certainly be locked -- I've seen posts locked in LBN for that reason.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. There does not exist sufficient group therapy to contain the narcissism

No, it isn't all about himself though he does see himself as the driving force in the world and everyone's lives.

[Collimator]

10. "Group therapy" for narcissists seems like the ultimate oxymoron.

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

14. That is true! lol /nt

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Rob Reiner gets the last laugh.

“The corpse at every funeral” has spoken.

[Scrivener7]

5. What a fucking monster.

[flashman13]

16. The word that came to my mind was ghoul. We all know who is the deranged person here.

[Paladin]

6. I expected nothing better from him.

Particularly after Obama's moving tribute. Might as well brace ourselves for more deranged, cruel shit-talk from trump---it's bound to be forthcoming. I pray that Rob Reiner and his wife have one final good deed headed our way: bringing this evil old motherfucker down.

[Crowman2009]

7. Nobody will be crying real tears at the orange assclown's funeral!

The racists will be crying because they know that their MAGA world is falling apart, the cabinet & other trump minions will be crying because he was their dear leader and want to maintain their positions of power in the MAGA world, and his kids will be crying because they are going to owe a shit-ton of debt.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

45. My guess is those attending HIS funeral will do their best to not bust out laughing

I mean seriously! Can anyone imagine the grieving widow Trump crying over him?

[Crowman2009]

47. And Stephen Miller will probably kiss his ass one more time.

I swear he'll probably act like that character in the movie "My Girl" and say: his spray tan, he needs his spray tan!

[Botany]

8. Somebody else wrote that but to sign off on that bile shows him to be a true psychopath.

N/t

[MuirHero]

13. I had exactly the same thought.

Toxic bile, yes, but it was coherent. The demented orange POS is completely incapable of writing something like that. Sounds like something that Miller or Bannon wrote.

[Botany]

21. You mean the use of complete sentences, proper punctuation, and no use of random commas?

That is most likely the work of Stephen Miller. To make a tragedy like the deaths of Reiners
about Donald Trump is despicable and the work of a really diseased mind. I met some kids …
a brother and a sister (14 and 11) who products of his kids in cages program and my feelings
for Miller are not nice.

[hamsterjill]

9. Anyone who still defends Trump needs to go straight to hell.

What a despicable thing to write. He is obviously bat shit crazy first and foremost (that’s not even debatable any more), but he’s just also so obviously jealous of someone who was so loved and respected as Rob Reiner was.

Someone needs to tell the asshole to shut the fuck up.

[MuirHero]

15. Amen!

[Initech]

19. Donald Trump is the textbook definition of "main character syndrome".

Seriously if you were to look up that phrase in Urban Dictionary, they’ve probably got his picture right next to it.

[Ray Bruns]

25. I thought he was the textbook definition of an asshole?

[Initech]

33. Both! People who have main character syndrome are most definitely assholes.

[Initech]

17. What a total fucking asshole.

Like seriously, this may be the worst thing he’s ever said about anyone, and he’s said a lot of shitty things.

[RussBLib]

18. The man is sick

Trump's supporters are sick, and this country is reeling from his constant BS and lies.

Merry Christmas.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[SunSeeker]

20. The MAGAsphere made people lose their jobs for their truthful comments on Charlie Kirk's death.

But when liberals suffer tragic deaths, all restraints are off; the most sick, false and heartless comments are totally acceptable!

Trump and his supporters are truly evil.

[Initech]

34. I know. Look at how Erika Kirk was given the royal red carpet treatment.

Because she kissed Trump's worthless ass 24/7. At this point he'll probably give Rob Reiner's murderer a cabinet position.

[djacq]

22. Trump needs to stop confirming his reservation spot in Hell.

[Initech]

35. Oh, Satan's already got a special circle reserved just for him!

[Ray Bruns]

23. Did anyone expect anything less?

Anyone? Anyone?

[mdbl]

24. Dump is just an evil asshole.

MAGA you really suck ass for putting this piece of shit in the white house.

[Paladin]

26. Guess who did the trump photo for "The Art Of The Deal"?

The late Michele Singer Reiner, that's who.

Wonder if anybody's informed trump of this, yet? Not that it'll make any fucking difference...

[kimbutgar]

27. If you can't say something nice about a person when they die he should STFU

What a selfish evil MFer. When I think he goes so low he goes even lower. I will be singing and dancing in the streets when he dies!

[liberalgunwilltravel]

30. I am certain

That when Trump dies, I and many others will have many, not nice things to say, and we will say them freely without a bit of remorse.

[bromeando]

28. trump

trump is afflicted with mental derangement

[surfered]

29. Definitely planning a trip to piss on Trump's grave. It would also be convenient if it was close to Limbaugh's

[skypilot]

31. Who is writing this shit for him?

As deranged as it is, it is still more coherent
and grammatically correct than the crap he spewed on Twitter during his first term. Just imagine, our tax dollars are paying for some little asshole/s to crank out this shit.

[grockri]

32. I read this morning. And I said out loud.

What a Fucking Asshole!!!!!!

This POS is pure evil without an ounce of compassion.. Everything is about him and what a jerk he is about everything.

[Festivito]

36. Every Republican accusation points back at themselves, the Republicans.

Republicans do indeed have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Mr.Bee]

37. If It's Because of YOUR 'DERANGEMENT SYNDROME'

Then Why Don't You RESIGN NOW!!

[Martin68]

38. So is Trump, like, admitting he ordered a hit on the Reiners?

[Vinca]

39. What a fucking piece of shit.

[Bayard]

40. Everything has to do with him

Turning a family tragedy into a PR stunt. Sick, sick, sick.

[ShazzieB]

41. Thanks for the reminder, Schlump.

Thanks for reminding the world what a warped, twisted, sick, deranged, monstrosity of an Orange Hellbeast you are, Donnie Boy. We wouldn't want anyone to have a chance to forget!

Mark my words: future historians will write books about this asshole that people will read and wonder wtaf happened that enabled such a blatantly uqualified, incompetent, and unscrupulous pile of 💩 to get elected potus and wtaf was wrong with the people that allowed themselves to be misled by him. Thinking about that gives me a tiny measure of comfort in these dark times.

[Cha]

42. Traitor has Derangement.. who didn't see

him making this all about him?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. trump is an asshole

[berniesandersmittens]

44. If anyone has paranoia, it's the Pedofelon himself

EPSTEIN

[valleyrogue]

48. And this sociopath made it worse by doubling down when he was asked about his post.

Asshole needs to be 25th amendment removed and then 86ed out of DC..

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. MaddowBlog-On the Reiners' death, Trump should have quit while he was behind

Facing criticism from the left, right and center, the president had a chance to make things better. He did not.

When Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered, and Trump responded with conspiracy theories and jokes, it reminded the world that Trump is a man devoid of grace and decency.

Targeting Rob Reiner, he did it again, digging a hole in the bottom of the barrel and falling even further.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-15T17:14:09.993Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/on-the-reiners-death-trump-should-have-quit-while-he-was-behind

But when the president responded to the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, by attacking one of the victims, suggesting the filmmaker brought on his own slaying with his criticisms of Trump, something unusual happened: A variety of GOP voices, including some in Congress, agreed that the president had gone too far in his lack of basic human decency.

In a normal White House, a president would see the pushback from his own ostensible allies and realize he’d made a mistake (although in a normal White House, the comment never would have happened in the first place). In this White House, Trump acted as if he’d never heard the old expression about quitting while behind.

Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?

TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-15T20:48:56.863Z

At an unrelated event in the Oval Office, a reporter reminded the president that “a number of Republicans” had denounced his statement related to Reiner and asked, “Do you stand by that post?”

The smart move would have been for Trump to dodge the question and change the subject. He did not, however, make the smart move.

“I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned,” the president said, referring to himself in third person. “He said he liked, he knew it was false — in fact, it’s the exact opposite — that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it.”

For good measure, the Republican added, “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.”.....

Instead, let’s focus on the fact that Trump welcomed an avalanche of criticism from the left, right and center by condemning a celebrated artist immediately after learning of his death and, given an opportunity to make things better, made a conscious decision to make things worse.

Trump is who he appears to be: a small and petty man, incapable of empathy or grace, obsessed with his grievances, unaware of what it means to be “presidential” and unable to control his worst instincts.