Kristin Du Mez, who knew Rob Reiner personally and collaborated with him on a documentary about Christian nationalism, replicates Trump's vile statements about Reiner after he and his wife were murdered by their son, and says,

"I think it’s important to look this evil in the eye, and I think Reiner would have wanted us to."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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kristindumez.substack.com/p/re…

Remembering Rob Reiner

And the time our paths almost crossed.

^{Kristin Du Mez (Du Mez CONNECTIONS)}

"[Trump's statement about Reiner] reminds you that Donald Trump is evil. And that's the word. He's an evil person."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…

Rob Reiner was the best of us while Trump is a vile scumbag

A recording from Dean Obeidallah's live video

^{Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)}

"His multiple emotional and psychological issues — the malignant narcissism, the pathological lying, the utter, sociopathic absence of empathy, and yet also an almost childlike manipulability — would be disturbing enough in an unemployed drifter. Manifested by the most powerful man on Earth, they amount to a global emergency."

~ Andrew Coyne

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/4

robertreich.substack.com/p/the…

The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border

A view from our neighbor

^{Robert Reich}

"The president is morally sick. ... The post is deranged, pathologically narcissistic, crude, stupid, and cruel. No human adult outside a psych ward expresses such thoughts. To have them at all is evidence of a twisted soul. ... the United States has muddled along with other dim presidents. Where Trump occupies a category all his own is in his breathtaking moral depravity."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/5

thebulwark.com/p/the-psych-war…

The Psych-Ward Presidency

The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.

^{Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)}

"[Trump's] vile outburst over the murder of a beloved entertainer and advocate for democracy provoked a moment of shocking moral clarity that exposed the essence of Trump’s malevolence as never before.

Peering into the bottomless evil of a man’s soul can be a harrowing experience. On Monday, Americans stared into the pitch darkness of Trump’s soul and recoiled in disgust and horror."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/6

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t…

Trump’s comment on Reiner’s death: A moment of shocking moral clarity.

December 16, 2025

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"He is a twisted and malicious man. We knew that. We suspected his depravity was boundless. His Monday post confirmed that fact with an economy and precision that is rare in a political world that runs on evasion and double-speak."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"Who responds this way? Only the thirstiest, weakest, and most depraved of men. Because Donald is irredeemably himself, he did not retract this statement; he didn’t apologize or write something decent and appropriate. In fact, he doubled down."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/8

marytrump.org/p/no-such-thing-…

No Such Thing as Worst

The off-the-rails rants of a jealous demagogue diminish all of us

^{The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump}

"Seventy-eight million people decided to give a corrupt, depraved, and sick human being almost unlimited power; the kind of deranged person who makes things worse for a family suffering an unimaginable and horrific loss. I wish we could ignore Donald, but we can’t."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"The president of the United States is a psychopath. This is not about his policies — although lord knows, they will kill millions of people before he is through.

This is about Donald Trump himself — the putrid, malignant soul that occupies his broken-down body."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/10

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/t…

Trump is a Psychopath

And the media is complicit

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}

"The sick mind that, without our increasingly loosened guard rails, would conjure up a gulag or wherever autocrats like him send those they hate, usually without any real basis.

He is rotting from the inside and under his leadership, so is our nation."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/11

"Peering into the Trump mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."

~ Thomas B. Edsall

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/12

nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion…

"CNN tried without success to get Republicans on Capitol Hill to comment on Trump’s post, reporting that Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson 'are not addressing' Trump’s post about the killing of Rob Reiner, but instead are 'offering prayers for his family.'”

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
/13

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

Donald Trump desecrates the memory of Rob Reiner and everything else he touches.

By now you have no doubt heard of Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social this morning about the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

"Only four House members that I can find spoke out, with empathy for the family: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Mike Lawler, and Stephanie Bice."

~ Joyce Vance

joycevance.substack.com/p/the-…

Nicole Lafond names the names Vance mentions and provides quotations.

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
/14

talkingpointsmemo.com/where-th…

Trump’s Vile Remarks on Rob Reiner’s Death Prove a Bridge Too Far For Some GOPers

In the wake of President Trump’s “inappropriate and disrespectful” remarks — making what appears to be a tragic double murder of director and actor Rob Reiner…

^{Nicole LaFond (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

“God has placed some prominent evangelicals in Trump’s orbit, and they’re going to have to give a full accounting of why they did not do more than they did, because the whole project has descended into getting scraps from the table of power at the expense of the President’s soul.”

~ Eric Erickson quoted by Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
/15

meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

Today in Politics, Bulletin 271. 12/15/25

… As Americans were waking up to the shocking news of the murder of beloved and acclaimed director and activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, Donald Trump reacted with perhaps the most vile and disgusting post of his life - and that is certainly s…

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

“Live your life in such a way that America's worst president sends a deranged and disgusting post about you when you die.”

~ Tim Miller quoted by The Bulwark

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/16

thebulwark.com/p/the-psych-war…

The Psych-Ward Presidency

The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.

^{Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)}

"After news of Reiner and his wife Michele’s brutal murder broke, the right leveraged it to score political points.

'You won’t see people on the right celebrating the horrific murder of Rob Reiner and his wife,' posted Jack Posobiec. He told readers to 'Compare the Left’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder,' even though there were no Democratic officials who had actually celebrated."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/17

statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump…

Trump Goes to Eleven

And Rob Reiner may get the last word in after all.

^{Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)}

"But then Trump climbed in his AI fighter jet and dropped shit all over Posobiec’s argument. …

And with that, a crazed statement by Trump had once again put the right on the defensive and called into question whether they were prepared to descend further into the abyss along with him."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/18

"I have never held Donald Trump in lower esteem.

But the silence of 99% of his party in failing to rebuke his sick and cruel behavior today means they’re utterly irredeemable."

#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/19

threads.com/@therickwilson/pos…

Rick Wilson (@therickwilson) on Threads

I have never held Donald Trump in lower esteem. But the silence of 99% of his party in failing to rebuke his sick and cruel behavior today means they’re utterly irredeemable.

^Threads

I think we all need to stop talking about Trump's health, and focus instead on his utter lack of a conscience.

If we all work very hard, Trump can someday be brought to trial for his crimes against humanity, and the last thing we want to do is enable some kind of insanity defense.