Bonus Episode: Trump’s Response To Rob Reiner’s Murder Was DESPICABLE
The Chuck ToddCast
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4.1 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Chuck Todd blasts Donald Trump for his despicable post about Rob Reiner where he attributed the murder to politics and made it about himself. He argues that Trump only knows how to “go low” and that the post is a red flag that something is seriously wrong with the president’s mental state.
Timeline:
00:00 Rob Reiner & his wife found murdered in their home
00:30 So much grief from Brown & Australia shootings & now Reiner…
02:15 Trump’s post about Reiner’s death was beyond despicable
03:45 Trump implied that Reiner’s political disagreements got him murdered
04:45 Trump’s lack of empathy during Covid contributed to election loss
06:00 Reiner should be celebrated for his art, not attacked for his politics
07:45 Trump is a virus of polarization & exploitive of any situation
08:30 Trump represents America, and his post was classless & embarrassing
10:00 Trump is leaving a terrible legacy
10:45 Trump is the most successful failure in American history
12:45 We want a president who knows how to “go high”, Trump only goes low
13:45 Nobody in Trump’s inner circle stays there for long
14:30 You can’t chase every Trump outrage, but this one stood out
15:30 Trump’s behavior will accelerate perception that he’s losing it
16:45 This is a red flag that something is seriously wrong with Trump
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.9 | Well, I'm coming to you after the news. |
| 0:11.3 | I taped previously to tape the episode on Sunday evening, but before we found out about |
| 0:15.9 | Rob Reiner. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'll be honest, when I think about the introduction to the episode earlier for my podcast, and it was focused more of what happened in Australia. |
| 0:25.9 | You know, by the time I woke up Monday morning, it was felt like a totality of just grief, you know, had sort of been piled on top of us, whether you're thinking about what happened at Brown University, what happened in Australia, |
| 0:41.5 | and then just the gruesome attack on Rob Reiner and his wife and the murder of those two, |
| 0:48.6 | it was just collectively, you know, just you wake up in sort of a funk feeling just really just I can't, you know, look, |
| 0:59.5 | everybody processes these things differently. |
| 1:03.6 | I don't want to assume other people are processing. |
| 1:06.0 | But you're just feeling really just down, you know. |
| 1:10.7 | I happen to actually, my wife and I just watched Spinal Tap 2 Friday evening. |
| 1:16.5 | It was, you know, we were looking for something to watch. |
| 1:20.4 | We finished Pluribus and we weren't ready to fall asleep. |
| 1:23.1 | We had seen the new episode of that. |
| 1:25.1 | And I was like, oh, I've been meaning to take a look. |
| 1:27.5 | And I think the second Sp tap finally started streaming this weekend. |
| 1:32.2 | So it was getting certainly promoted on my algorithm because I am a Gen Xer, right? |
| 1:36.9 | I am of, I am the target audience for this. |
| 1:39.5 | And in fact, my wife and I were remarking just, you know, not all of these sort of throwback sequels work, right? |
| 1:47.3 | You've heard me say naked gun didn't work. |
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