"President Trump shared a lengthy post on TruthSocial claiming that the beloved director had a "raging obsession" with him. He wrote, "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.""
"Jack White, who's criticized Trump throughout his administration, reposted the president's message and expressed his detestation of it. "Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac, loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this gross, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much," White wrote. "To use someone's tragic death to promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin. Shame on you trump and anyone who defends this.""
"Maria Shriver, journalist and ex-wife to California Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, also called Trump's comments "absolutely disgusting" and encouraged people not to "ignore" what he said. "We should all be horrified and disgusted by this inhumane behavior, because that's what it is. Rob and Michele Reiner were good, kind, loving people," she writes. "Their family is in deep, unimaginable pain. What kind of human being would share a statement like this, much less a president?""
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed in their Los Angeles home. President Trump posted on TruthSocial alleging the director had a "raging obsession" and attributing the deaths to "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS)." The post was reshared across platforms and prompted widespread backlash. Musicians and public figures publicly condemned the post as an exploitative and callous use of a tragedy. Jack White denounced the message as a corrupt and narcissistic act that insults a beloved artist. Maria Shriver labeled the comments "absolutely disgusting" and said the Reiner family faces deep, unimaginable pain.
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