BULLETIN: TRUMP CELEBRATES THE MURDER OF ROB REINER - 12.15.25

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 41: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

The president of the United States is celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. It is at first impossible to believe that what follows isn’t satire. Then it becomes heart-breaking that it isn’t satire. Then it becomes infuriating. Finally it becomes more evidence that every minute this man is permitted to REMAIN president – the rest of us – the rest of us in the WORLD – are in mortal danger.

Trump really believes that Rob Reiner “passed away… due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with… Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Trump’s ability to make everything about HIM – his need to be, as the old dark joke goes, the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral – is not some kind of act. You will recall his reaction to 9/11 – that it made HIM the owner of the SECOND tallest building in downtown Manhattan, not just the third. It crested when he publicly speculated that a baseball player broke his ankle because he sold his apartment in a Trump building.

It is called Shallow Affect and it means in essence that you do not KNOW how actual normal humans interact nor what causes the events in THEIR lives. You cannot CONCEIVE of their lives. You look at a picture of the world and you see only you. You look in a mirror and you correctly see YOU but you are firmly convinced that when OTHERS look in THEIR mirrors… they ALSO see only you.

Human beings do not believe these things. Trump does. It means he can believe - and do - anything.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I-Heart Radio.
0:18.5	This is a countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olderman. The president of the United States is
0:25.0	celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. Celebrating. It is at first impossible to believe
0:33.9	that what follows is not satire. Then it becomes heartbreaking that what follows is not satire. Then it becomes heartbreaking that what follows is not
0:39.5	satire. Then it becomes infuriating that what follows is not satire. And finally, it becomes more
0:45.9	evidence still that every minute this man is permitted to remain president, the rest of us,
0:51.9	the rest of us in this world, are in mortal danger. Because if he is
0:57.9	capable of believing this, this expression of his own Messiah complex, this belief that he
1:04.1	controls or influences who lives and who dies or who succeeds or who fails merely based on how much they adore him,
1:14.1	he can believe anything and thus he can do anything, including destroy the world.
1:20.8	I quote from Trump on truth social.
1:24.9	A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling,
1:31.6	but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife
1:38.4	Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive unyielding and incurable
1:47.0	affliction with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to
1:54.7	as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,
2:03.2	with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all
2:08.8	goals and expectations of greatness and with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like
2:14.1	never before. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.
2:19.8	This is madness.
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