Trump blasts Rob Reiner in post about the director’s death : NPR

President Trump made disparaging remarks about Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who died along with his wife over the weekend in what authorities are investigating as a homicide. Their 32-year-old son Nick was arrested.

Reiner, 78, was a prominent supporter of the Democratic Party and an outspoken critic of Trump.

“A very sad thing happened in Hollywood last night,” Trump said. in a post on Truth Social Monday morning. “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented film director and comedy star, has passed away with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused in others with his enormous, unrelenting and incurable affliction, the mind-paralyzing disease known as TRUMP SYNDROME, sometimes called TDS.”

Trump went on to say that Reiner was “fiercely obsessed” with him, “his apparent paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration exceeded all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the advent of America's Golden Age perhaps like never before.”

His post ended with: “May Rob and Michelle rest in peace!”

Tribute to Reiner poured in since late Sunday night, including from former President Barack Obama, who said that “behind all the stories he wrote was a deep belief in the goodness of people – and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into practice.”

The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to a request for medical assistance around 3:40 p.m. local time on Sunday and discovered the bodies in the couple's home.

Rainer's son Nick suffered from addiction, which inspired 2016 film Being Charlie which Nick Rayner worked on with his father.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has publicly feuded with Trump, criticized the president's statements. Referring to Nick Rayner's story in a post on X, Greene called the incident “a family tragedy, not politics or political enemies.”