Jimmy Kimmel Denounces Donald Trump for Rob Reiner Post
Jimmy Kimmel lambasted Donald Trump during his Monday night broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for saying that Rob Reiner died “because of the anger he caused in others” through his “Trump derangement syndrome.”
“What we need at a time like this, besides common sense when it comes to guns and mental health care, is compassion and leadership. We haven’t gotten that from our president because he has none of that to give. Instead, we have a fool talking nonsense,” Kimmel said. “We received this post for Rob and Michele Reiner.”
Kimmel then recited Trump’s Truth Social post on Monday morning, which read: “Last night something very sad happened in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented film director and comedy star, has passed away along with his wife Michele, reportedly as a result of the anger he caused in others by his enormous, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling illness known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, a.k.a. called TDS.”
The president continued, “He was known to have driven people crazy with his raging obsession with President Donald J. Trump, with his apparent paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration exceeded all goals and expectations of greatness, and with America’s Golden Age upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
“It’s so hateful and mean,” Kimmel said of the post. “When I first saw it, I thought it was fake. My wife showed it to me this morning. I thought, ‘That seemed too much even for him.’ But nothing is ever too much for him.”
Kimmel then turned his attention to a press conference in the Oval Office, where Trump was given “the opportunity to take another chance at acting like a human being” and take back his post at Reiner. Trump instead doubled down.
“I wasn’t a fan of him at all,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “He was a crazy person about Trump. He knew it was false. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. He said I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. You know, the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in his career. He became like a crazy person. Trump disorder syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.”
“That corroded brain is in charge of our lives,” Kimmel said. “If that’s what you voted for, it’s okay to reconsider. It’s fine. I have to say, from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner, I know he would want us to continue to point out the disgusting atrocities that continue to ooze out of the mouth of this sick and irresponsible man. So we’re going to do that again and again until the rest of us wake up.”
Kimmel wasn’t the only late-night host to talk about Reiner. Although Colbert didn’t discuss it on the show, he opened his Monday night broadcast with a foreword in light of Reiner’s death, as well as the Bondi Beach and Brown University shootings.
“Hello everyone,” said a somber Colbert from behind his desk. “Normally we start the show with a quick heads-up on a major news story of the day. But after last weekend’s terrible news, the horrific Hanukkah massacre at Bondi Beach, the tragic Brown University shootings, and the heartbreaking deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, all the big stories are too dark for that. Other people’s tragedies are sacred ground, and we do our best not to tread there. But we’re going to do a comedy show tonight, in the light and despite the darkness.”
Reiner, a prolific filmmaker who broke into Hollywood starring in “All in the Family” before directing films such as “Stand by Me,” “When Harry Met Sally…,” “This Is Spinal Tap” and “A Few Good Men,” was found stabbed to death in his Brentwood home Sunday afternoon along with his wife of 36 years, Michele Singer. Reiner was 78 and Singer was 68.
Nick Reiner, Rob and Michele’s son, was arrested at 9:15 p.m. Sunday and arrested at 5:05 a.m. Monday on suspicion of murdering his parents, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department online records.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell confirmed during a press conference Monday morning that Nick Reiner had been “booked for murder.” He added that it was a “very, very tragic incident.
No charges have been filed. The LAPD said in a news release that investigators are expected to present the case to the district attorney for filing on Tuesday.
