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Trump Responds to the Rob Reiner Family Tragedy With Cruelty

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Sarah Longwell give their takes on Donald Trump’s ghastly response to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. From victim-blaming to self-obsession, Trump turns a horrific family tragedy into a fantasy about “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” exposing the moral rot and hypocrisy at the heart of his presidency.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of the Bullwark.

0:04.8

And, you know, as happens, we're recording with bad news. On Sunday night,

0:12.3

Rob Reiner and his wife were found murdered in their Los Angeles home. As we are taping right now,

0:19.0

we have word that their son has been arrested, but the police

0:24.5

haven't made any announcements yet.

0:26.2

The thinking seems to be that their son may have done this, allegedly.

0:31.7

But again, it's all very unclear.

0:33.9

We're here because the President of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to weigh in this morning.

0:38.6

And Sarah, you have not seen this, this tweet on Truth Social, so I'm going to read it to you.

0:43.3

Okay.

0:44.6

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.

0:47.7

Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michelle,

0:55.6

reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable

1:01.2

affliction with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as

1:07.4

TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of Donald

1:12.7

J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights, as the Trump administration

1:17.8

surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the golden age of America upon us,

1:23.7

perhaps, like never before. May Robin Michelle rest in peace.

1:28.2

You know, even by, even by Trump standards, that is pretty, uh, that is pretty disgusting.

1:35.4

In what, what human takes something like this and makes it a about himself, like Trump making it about himself,

1:50.0

but also like they're in the middle of a deep family tragedy.

1:57.2

And like you said, we don't know.

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