Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump facing GOP pushback over his comments on Rob Reiner
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump receives rare backlash from members of his own party today for a social media post about the death of director Rob Reiner. |
| 0:08.0 | Main time, Congress is running out of time to reach a deal on the Affordable Care Act tax subsidies. |
| 0:13.3 | For analysis, we turn to our Politics Monday duo. |
| 0:15.9 | That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. |
| 0:20.5 | It's great to have you both here. |
| 0:21.9 | So look, it was an incredibly callous and cruel post, even by Donald Trump's standards, |
| 0:27.3 | about the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. So after the apparent homicides, the president |
| 0:32.3 | wrote on truth social that their deaths were a very sad thing and that they would rest in peace. |
| 0:38.4 | But most of the post focused on attacking Reiner for his anti-Trump politics. |
| 0:43.2 | And the president even suggested that Reiner had brought his death upon himself through what |
| 0:47.3 | Trump called Trump derangement syndrome. |
| 0:50.2 | What makes this moment different, you both know, is the response. |
| 0:53.4 | You have Republicans, not just Trump critics, but Republicans in battleground districts, |
| 0:57.8 | members of Congress pushing back, including New York Congressman Mike Lawler, Oklahoma Congresswoman |
| 1:02.8 | Stephanie Bice. |
| 1:04.0 | You've also got a number of several conservative commentators also saying that this is really just depraved. |
| 1:10.1 | What do you make of Republicans breaking rank here? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, I think there is still a lot of grief over the murder of Charlie Kirk. |
| 1:20.6 | And remember, there was a lot of consternation by many in conservative circles |
| 1:26.6 | about the way that they believed people on the |
| 1:29.8 | left were treating that murder. There were many callous tweets and responses from some about |
| 1:37.8 | Charlie Kirk's murder and the approach that some conservative movement took was to say, |
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