Rob Reiner’s response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been revisited as celebrities highlight the stark differences between the beloved director and President Donald Trump.
The 78-year-old veteran actor and filmmaker was found dead in his Los Angeles residence on Sunday (December 14), along with his 68-year-old wife Michele.
Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been apprehended and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. A medical examiner’s report concluded that the couple died from ‘multiple sharp force injuries’.
In the wake of the director’s passing, Trump took to Truth Social to share a ‘tribute’ to Reiner, in which he criticized him, calling him ‘a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star’.
Trump further alleged that Reiner’s death resulted from 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’.
After facing backlash from Hollywood, the public, and even fellow Republican, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump stated to reporters at the White House that Reiner was ‘very bad for our country’.
Piers Morgan has since criticized the president for his remarks, sharing a clip on X featuring Reiner discussing Kirk’s death earlier this year.
He captioned the post: “As President Trump trashes Rob Reiner following his murder, a reminder of how Reiner responded on my show to the murder of Charlie Kirk.”
The video showed Reiner on Piers Morgan Uncensored in September. When asked about the Conservative activist’s assassination, he described it as an ‘absolute horror’ and mentioned he had ‘unfortunately [seen] the video’.
The 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group, was shot in the neck while addressing a crowd at Utah Valley University, in Orem, on Wednesday (September 10).
Reiner added: “It’s beyond belief what happened to him, that should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution to solving problems.”
Reiner’s reaction showed empathy for Kirk’s death, contrasting with Trump’s comments.
For those needing a reminder of what the president of the United States said the morning after an American film director was brutally killed alongside his wife, here it is: “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!”