Well-known faces together with Jack White, Josh Gad and Whoopi Goldberg have come ahead to criticise Donald Trump for his “vile” feedback about Rob Reiner’s demise.
The LAPD later mentioned that it was investigating the case as an “obvious murder”, and shops together with TMZ and Individuals reported that the 2 had suffered wounds according to a knife assault.
Final night time (Monday December 15), it was revealed that their 32-year-old son Nick Reiner had been arrested and was in in custody on $4million (£2.9million) bail.
Since information broke of their deaths, numerous tributes have poured in for Rob and Michele Reiner, together with from Stephen King and Paul McCartney, who highlighted the filmmaker’s immense expertise and their fond reminiscences that they had collectively.
Donald Trump, nonetheless, launched a private assault on the Stand By Me Director, and put ahead false claims that his homicide was led to by his “obsession” with criticising him.
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, however as soon as very gifted film director and comedy star, has handed away, collectively along with his spouse, Michele, reportedly because of the anger he induced others by means of his huge, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a thoughts crippling illness generally known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, generally known as TDS,” the President’s submit mentioned.
“He was recognized to have pushed individuals CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, along with his apparent paranoia reaching new heights because the Trump Administration surpassed all targets and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, maybe like by no means earlier than.”
Reiner was persistently outspoken about Trump, and beforehand known as him “mentally unfit” and “the one most unqualified human being” to be US President in a 2017 interview with Selection.
Unsurprisingly, the feedback made by the President have sparked widespread backlash from many, together with Jack White, who took to Instagram to name Trump a “disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, youngster”.
The previous White Stripes icon continued: “Neither he nor any one in all his followers can defend this gross, horrible insult to a phenomenal artist who gave the world a lot. To make use of somebody’s tragic demise to advertise your personal vainness and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin.”
“Disgrace on you trump and anybody who defends this,” he added. “God bless you Rob Reiner and thanks for what you gave the world. I by no means even met you and I nonetheless stand by you.”
Jimmy Kimmel additionally hit again on the feedback throughout the opening monologue of final night time’s episode of his discuss present. Describing Reiner as “one in all our best administrators and patriots”, Kimmel went on so as to add: “What we’d like in a time like that is compassion and management, we didn’t get that from our president as a result of he has none of that to provide… Simply once you suppose he can’t go any decrease, he someway finds a approach to do this.”
“It’s so hateful and vile, once I first noticed it I assumed it was faux. Even for him that appeared an excessive amount of, however nothing is an excessive amount of for him,” he continued. “That corroded mind is accountable for our lives. If you happen to voted for that, it’s OK to rethink. It’s completely effective.”
Actor Josh Gad went on to share on Threads that “There isn’t any low that’s too low for this fucking psychopath. Rob Reiner was 1000 instances the person you’re, and in contrast to you, he truly cared in regards to the American individuals.”
Gad then went on to explain Reiner as “one of many best administrators of our time”, “a pal” and “merely a phenomenal individual”. He additionally added that the director and his spouse have been “two of essentially the most sort and caring souls you possibly can ever think about”.
Equally, on The View, Whoopi Goldberg requested that Trump’s feedback not be learn aloud on air, telling co-host Sunny Hostin: “Don’t learn it, simply inform them that it’s there”.
One other co-host, Ana Navarro, then agreed, and hit out at Trump by saying: “This can be a tragedy, not only for the household, however for all who knew and beloved him, and for the President of america to make this about him as a solution to assault Rob Reiner, as a result of he exercised his American proper to talk up with what he disagreed with, is shameful.
“It’s disgraceful,” she added. “And of all of the disgusting issues that Donald Trump has performed, that is proper up there.”
Politicians to have condemned the president’s feedback embody California’s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, who wrote on X: “This can be a sick man”, and US Home member Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who chimed in: “What a despicable piece of rubbish.”
US senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat shared: “He’s simply misplaced it. Now saying Rob and Michele Reiner induced their very own homicide as a result of they didn’t help him. So sick”, whereas US Home member Zoe Lofgren, known as his feedback “a brand new low for this petty, hateful man”.
This can be a sick man. https://t.co/l0TS2PhFlZ
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 15, 2025
What a despicable piece of rubbish. pic.twitter.com/eKUbx7yHp5
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) December 15, 2025
He is simply misplaced it. Now saying Rob and Michele Reiner induced their very own homicide as a result of they did not help him.
So sick. pic.twitter.com/Ru1JNuMexj
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 15, 2025
Rob Reiner was a beloved Californian who at all times used his platform to make the world higher. Donald Trump making gentle of him and his spouse’s murders is a brand new low for this petty, hateful man. His social gathering must condemn this. pic.twitter.com/lU52Ohh7Cd
— Rep. Zoe Lofgren (@RepZoeLofgren) December 15, 2025
The arrest of Nick Reiner in reference to the deaths comes following each him and his father working collectively on a movie known as Being Charlie, which was loosely primarily based on the latter’s youth and his previous struggles with substance abuse and homelessness.
Whereas the 2 beforehand confirmed that the venture was not autobiographical, Rob did say in a 2016 interview on BUILD Sequence that the film introduced them “nearer collectively” and “pressured me to see extra clearly, and perceive extra deeply, what Nick had gone by means of”.
The 2 of them final have been seen collectively publicly on the the pink carpet for Rob’s movie Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues – the long-awaited follow-up to the much-loved 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Faucet, which was Reiner’s directorial movie debut.
Different movies of his included Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Distress (1990), and the Oscar-nominated A Few Good Males (1992).
He additionally had appearing roles in Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, Postcards From the Edge, The First Wives Membership, The Wolf of Wall Avenue, New Woman, The Bear and extra.
Michelle Singer-Reiner labored as a photographer, and the 2 received married in 1989 after assembly on the set for When Harry Met Sally. She additionally labored on the MysteryDisc video video games and on the 1990 movie Distress – which was primarily based on the Stephen King e-book and directed by Rob.
