President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that film director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, died because of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The couple was found dead on Sunday in what police are calling an “apparent homicide.” Nick Reiner, the couple’s 32-year-old son, was arrested on Sunday and is being held on a felony charge with a $4 million bail, according to LAPD jail records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. He had spoken to the media in the past about his struggles with drug addiction and said it made him drift from his home. He has also told interviewers that he spent stretches of his life homeless.
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday morning. “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.”
Trump often says his opponents are afflicted with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” an ailment once defined by Urban Dictionary as a “mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason.”
“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession with 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,” Trump concluded. “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Reiner, a prominent Democratic donor, expressed fierce opposition to Trump online and deleted his X account following the 2024 election. He told the Daily Beast in September that Trump “doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
Reiner also compared Trump to a “zombie or a cockroach” during his 2024 presidential election campaign.
Trump’s Truth Social post triggered negative reactions from across the political spectrum.
“Remember when people were cancelled for not expressing the proper Official Emotions of Grief for Charlie Kirk? Yeah, me too. In related news, Trump’s grave will reek of ammonia for all eternity,” Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson wrote on X.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) called the president out for his social media post, suggesting it was in poor taste.
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“Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak. This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies,” Greene wrote on X, adding that the situation “should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder.”
Massie had stronger words for the president: “Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the [vice president], and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”
