The Daily Populous Tuesday December 16th, 2025 night edition
Authored by variety.com and submitted by cmaia1503

President Donald Trump commented on the shocking death of legendary film director Rob Reiner, who was found dead Sunday in his Brentwood home alongside his wife Michele Singer.

Trump blasted Reiner, who was strongly opposed to Trump’s politics and was a noted supporter of Democratic causes, as having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a post on social media Monday.

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.”

The U.S. president continued: “He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”

SEE ALSO: Rob Reiner Mourned by Hollywood’s Stunned A-List: ‘Life and Talent Always Turned Up to 11’

At a White House briefing Monday afternoon, Trump was asked if he stood by his comments about Reiner after several Republicans criticized them. Trump responded, “Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. … I thought he was very bad for our country.”

Variety has reached out to the White House for any additional comment.

Among Reiner’s remarks opposing Trump and his policies, the late director told Variety in 2017, “Donald Trump is the single most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States. He is mentally unfit. Not only does he not understand how government works, he has no interest in trying to find out how it works.” Reiner had been asked to compare Trump with President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the subject of the director’s biopic “LBJ.”

Reiner, in a recent interview with MSNBC, said that the U.S. is danger of becoming an “autocracy” if Trump is allowed to “control the media.”

“Make no mistake; we have a year before this country becomes a full-on autocracy, and democracy completely leaves us,” Reiner told MSNBC (since renamed MS NOW) in October. “And we’re looking at the election in 2026, and Donald Trump knows that in a free and fair election, he will lose. He will lose the House, the House will flip and will become in Democratic hands. There will be committee chairs who will be able to hold meetings, and this is the last thing he wants.”

The deaths of Reiner and Singer are being investigated as a homicide, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The couple was reported to have been stabbed to death.

Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of the couple, was arrested Sunday night at 9:15 p.m. and booked on suspicion of murder on Monday at 5:04 a.m., according to LAPD online records. His bail has been set at $4 million.

iloovehugecock on December 15th, 2025 at 15:42 UTC »

Donald Trump, President of the USA, declaring that a murdered husband and wife deserved to be killed because they didn’t like Trump.

A truly evil man.

butterybuns420 on December 15th, 2025 at 15:40 UTC »

Jesus Christ what a horrific mindset. This is how this man thinks.

Megaphonestory on December 15th, 2025 at 15:39 UTC »

Trumps gravestone will be washed away by uric acid within the year.