Rob Reiner is the latest of President Trump’s perceived enemies to draw his ire even after death.
WASHINGTON โ President Donald Trump on Monday, without evidence, blamed the killing of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele on their politics.
In a striking social media attack on the victims, Trump tried to to make the connection between Reiner’s death and his political stances against the president’s policies.ย
“The anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” Trump wrote.ย
The famed director-actor and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Southern California home Sunday night, in what police described as an “apparent homicide.”ย
On Monday, police arrested Nick Reiner, the younger of Rob Reinerโs two sons, for the murder of his parents.ย
In his post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that Reiner was obsessed with him.ย
The president’s full statement can be read below:
“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!”
Later, Trump doubled down on his statements when speaking to reporters at the White House Monday afternoon. After being asked if he stood by his early posts, using the third person, Trump said Reiner โwas a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.โ
โI was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way shape or form,โ Trump said. โI thought he was very bad for our country.โ
Police and law enforcement sources have given no indication that the deaths of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were politically motivated in any way.ย
But it’s far from the first time Trump has publicly attacked his perceived enemies, even after they have died.ย
His feud with the late Sen. John McCain is well documented, with Trump continuing to blast McCain after his death in 2018.ย
The president said McCain “didn’t get the job done for our great vets and the VA.”
“Not my kind of guy,” Trump said at the time. “But some people like him and I think that’s great.”
He also remained publicly silent aboutย the death of former Vice President Dick Cheney.ย
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
