Rob Reiner, known for Wolf of The Wall Street along with his wife were found dead in their home on Sunday. Their son Nick Reiner was arrested in the homicide charges.
The couple were found dead inside their Brentwood, Calif., home on Sunday, Dec. 14, and their 32-year-old son, Nick, has been taken into custody in connection with their deaths. Multiple sources close to the family have told PEOPLE that Nick killed his parents.
When speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump declined to offer his condolences on the tragedy, standing by a startling social media post he made earlier in the day.
“Well I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump told a reporter who asked about the backlash to his post. “He was a deranged person, as far as Trump is concerned.”
“He claimed that I was under Russian control and a friend of Russia. The president, 79, went on, “You know, it was the Russia hoax, and he was one of the people behind it.” “I believe he damaged his career. He developed Trump Derangement Syndrome and started acting like a crazy person.
“Therefore, I was not at all fond of Rob Reiner. After saying, “I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump hurriedly called on a second reporter whose hand was raised.
These comments come following Trump’s shocking post on his Truth Social page on Monday morning, when Trump appeared to place the blame for his own murder on Rob for inciting it.
“There was one very sad occurrence last night in the Hollywood community,” Trump posted. “Rob Reiner, the tortured and struggling but very talented film director and comedian, has passed on with wife Michele because of the anger he caused other people because of his massive and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease called Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS.”
“He was known to have driven people Crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” the president went on, “with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration has eclipsed 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!”
Rob was a vocal critic 0f Trump. Just two months prior to his death, he gave a fiery interview to MS Now host Ali Velshi, in which he said that the political climate in the U.S. under Trump’s second term felt “beyond McCarthy era-esque.”
“Make no mistake: We have a year before this country becomes a full-on autocracy and democracy completely leaves us,” Rob continued, claiming that Trump’s administration was amassing the “two big things an autocrat needs”: “control of the media” and “military control of the streets.”
“We’re in it right now, and we’re sliding downhill in a very, very fast way, and we have to find a way to stop it,” Rob said.
