Aaron Rupar on what Trump just said about Rob Reiner: "This is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted"

[highplainsdem]

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-15T14:52:36.457Z

[displacedvermoter]

1. Sick, syphilitic asshole!

[maxsolomon]

69. You know, Syphilis would explain a lot of his behavior

Hmm....

[displacedvermoter]

75. I tell everyone I know he is syphilitic

and I don't care if it is true or not. I hope it is.

[not fooled]

90. His personal Vietnam caught up with him at last?

Back in the 90s, he told Howard Stern during an interview that avoiding STDs was his "personal Vietnam."

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

95. Me too!

[homegirl]

99. Trump never fails

to respond as the RUDE, CRUDE DUDE he has always been!

[Beartracks]

112. Could have caught it from all those trips to Epstein Island.

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[Initech]

91. He is truly, deeply fucked in the head.

The kind of cold blooded, narcissistic psychopath you have to be to say something like that about a horrifying murder people are trying to get a hand on...

[niyad]

2. Sadly, I am not in the least surprised.

[yardwork]

7. Anybody who is surprised hasn't been paying attention.

The "news" media will ignore it.

[niyad]

46. Sadly true.

[MustLoveBeagles]

68. The only surprise is that it took him this long to do it

[OLDMDDEM]

3. He is one pathetic son of a bitch.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. As enraged as this statement by Trump makes me,

I can't let go of:

1. Someone else (likely Stephen Miller, the antithesis of Rob Reiner) wrote this, and
2. Trump is still crazy as fuck and this is projection.
3. Trump is pissing on their graves.

[leftstreet]

11. Yeah, no way he wrote this

But it's really sick

[hlthe2b]

24. I disagree. The ONE thing that enables Trump to be able to write these posts is hatred and vengeance...

Just as many with advanced dementia who were not infrequently nasty human beings, but able to contain it in earlier life, manifest it frequently--especially as they "sundown"... I believe that phenomenon allows TSF to put this kind of vitriol into his posts in a surprisingly coherent way. Do i think he may have discussed Rob Reiner's death with Miller or whoever told him and was thus reminded of Reiner's reactions to him and thus stimulated his longstanding animosity and resentment? Yes. But that having occurred, I think TSF is STILL capable of a hate-filled rant such as this.

[Ocelot II]

35. It's also possible he dictated it to one of his minions, who read it back and posted it with his approval.

It's all his, even if his stubby little digits didn't physically pound out the words. The fact that the words were spelled correctly only means that someone else probably participated.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

60. I agree.

Any of Piggy's ghouls would happily comply with his filth.

[leftstreet]

37. Miller's just as vile as he is

He's so filled with his own hatred and vengeance, he'd have no problem writing for Trump

You may be right, I just don't think Trump is up to these long screeds

[rampartd]

54. trump would use all caps for this one.

[FakeNoose]

63. Not only that, Chump can't spell and his grammar is usually flawed or incorrect

He doesn't normally write in complete sentences, just as he's incapable of speaking a complete thought. So it's easy to tell when he DIDN'T write something. My guess is that Stephen Miller wrote it for Chump, got his approval, and posted it on Truth Social in his name. That's how it usually happens.

[electric_blue68]

103. Heh, I forgot about his CAPS Use! Heh. It'd have bern partially or all.

[Tommy Carcetti]

39. Either he or Miller did.

If it were a polite, dignified response, then I would say no way he wrote that.

But Trump is stupid and classless, and this is both.

[leftstreet]

48. They never post this crap on X

Since Trump was allowed back on X, his acct never posts his (alleged) crazy, deranged crap.

X appx users: 500-600 million
Truth Social appx users: 4-6 million

Hmm, you'd think he'd want the greater exposure, not just among a handful of rightwing nutters

[usedtobedemgurl]

67. Want proof he did not write it?

It does not end with, "THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

[raccoon]

14. I think #1 is correct. To try to add to the illusion that Trump still has some working brain cells.

[duckworth969]

79. Stephen Miller I'll bet

This type of vitriol is certainly in his wheelhouse.

[MustLoveBeagles]

94. He may not have wrote it

But he approves the message

[MustLoveBeagles]

97. I was right

When being asked about it he double downed on it.

[ms liberty]

5. OMG. TSF.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. What a piece of shit! He is the most vile person on earth.

[MustLoveBeagles]

96. No redeeming qualities at all

Even with W I can name a few things, but with dump, not a one.

[marble falls]

8. Apropos of nothing specific, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

[sop]

9. "May Rob and Michele rest in peace"?

Trump is quite possibly the most despicable piece of shit in the entire history of despicable pieces of shit.

[Emile]

10. Trump Derangement Syndrome, lol seriously?

[Turbineguy]

12. That's to be expected from that Piece of Shit.

[dalton99a]

13. Evil piece of shit.

[newdeal2]

15. May his disapproval ratings continue to skyrocket

He’s hanging on to that 30% for dear life.

[debm55]

16. What an asshole and piece of shit thump is.

[Tribetime]

17. I can't believe this is not The Onion.I can't believe this guy is the president

Always has to make it about himself.I'm sick of this a******

[Paladin]

45. It USED to be unbelievable.

Now it's commonplace and expected.

[pfitz59]

18. Did Trump actually post that?

Seems his style.

[dalton99a]

19. Yes.

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[Joinfortmill]

82. Papers are reporting it. Depraved.

[hlthe2b]

20. You know, as deranged & hate-filled as this is, I hold out hope that the few MAGA with a drop of humanity remaining

will see this for what it is and this will incite a major backlash. I ask that no one dispel me of this notion from well-deserved cynicism. I still hold out hope.

But, I will turn the page and spend today thinking of all the ways in which Rob (and i am sure his wife) were truly wonderful and talented human beings who CARED about OTHERS. I am really devastated by this loss and if it is true how he and his wife were killed and by whom, well that just adds to the immense pain. to Rob and his wife, Michelle's countless friends, family, admirers. You made a difference and I will forever be grateful. I like to think there is some afterlife or realm that means Rob might rejoin his wonderful father, Carl, and Norman Lear--who surely are turning that realm into one infinite funny and happy landing spot.

[durablend]

74. Nope.

If anything a bunch of them are orgasmating over it.

[Ocelot II]

21. Did anyone expect him to say something even slightly appropriate?

Once again, of course, it had to be all about him. He has to be the baby at every christening, the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral - but the day will come when he really is the corpse at the funeral, and he'll get all the attention he ever wanted. It will be a happy day for all of us.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Yes he had to grab the limelight and make it all about himself.

Trump's funeral should be a national holiday.
We can dance in the streets.

[electric_blue68]

104. Imho, Except in certain enclaves of the 5 Burroughs...You'll hear THE CHEERING from NYC around the country!

It'll be (if any if you saw the photos in NYC from that day) even bigger than when Biden was declared the winner! 👍
😄🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😄

Competing cheering from Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, ?Austin...and a few more, probably
I welcome them! 😄👍
We shall lift our voices together!!!
👋 🎉 👋

[TBF]

22. This country is in a very bad place right now -

no matter who is posting on the Truth Social account, it's just another indication that we are being ruled by:

1. an increasingly decapacitated president (probably due to dementia)
2. Steven Miller, et al, are really running things behind the scenes w/the Heritage Foundation
3. Congress can't find it in themselves to impeach despite all evidence of the above.

That this message is NOT surprising shows just how bad it has gotten.

[rzemanfl]

33. I think the word "in" in your subject line may be a typo.

Seems that way to me.

[TBF]

44. Do you feel our country is not in distress right now?

My title does not contain a typo.

[rzemanfl]

88. I think "...is a very bad place..." doesn't need "in."

Armed goons in the streets, unaffordable prices, people losing their healthcare, defiance of judicial rulings, lying to judges and probably grand juries too, a complicit Congress and Supreme Court, mass shootings, need I go on?

[TBF]

100. I'm sorry you don't like my writing style.

I was first published when I was 14, but that's neither here nor there. Enjoy your day.

[rzemanfl]

101. My post was not about your writing style.

It was about the state of the nation from my perspective. Also, in my old age, I find I rely too much on the word processor to find my mistakes. Sometimes it makes mistakes for me. Two-letter words like- in, is, and it have been occasional problems.

[underpants]

23. Embarrassing and sad.

[dsc]

25. On top of everything else

This post seems to imply that one of Trump's followers is responsible for this (or at least that Trump believed that to be true). Only People is saying who is a suspect (and it isn't about Trump if that suspect is correct) but it is interesting to me that, that is where he went with this.

[GusBob]

32. I saw it that way too

Of course crazy MAGAts kill libs, that’s what they do

Seems to be the implication

[mcar]

26. Rot in hell you disgusting swine*

*apologies to swine everywhere.

[purr-rat beauty]

27. No matter what...

...it becomes about him

It is also Stochastic..."got TDS? you will die"

[Botany]

28. Somebody wrote that for him but it is as sick as Hitler writing that it was all the Jews' fault for starting ...

… WW II just before he killed himself as the Russians were less than a mile from his bunker. So it was
Rob Reiner’s fault because he was opposed to Trump that caused his drug addicted son who Rob and
Michelle took back in to attack and kill his mother and father. Trump is a true psychopath even if it is
other people’s words.

[Wiz Imp]

30. Trump logic

Not that I'm giving any credence to what Trump said, I did want to point out how illogical & hypocritical such idiotic statements are.

He blames Rob Reiner for his own death because he made People angry with his hatred of Trump. Apparently Reiner deserved to die because he hated Trump. So by that logic, Charie Kirk was responsible for his own death, because Charlie Kirk was clearly hateful of large groups of people adn according to Trump's logic, because that hate made someone angry at Kirk, then Kirk deserved to be murdered and brought it on himself.

[GusBob]

34. Yes I saw it that way too

Needs to be pointed out

[calimary]

109. You always say it's somebody else's fault when you can't defend YOUR fault in it.

That's how trump plays the game. ALWAYS.

[GoCubsGo]

31. I stopped reading after the second sentence.

Fuck that motherfucking fucker, and everyone who is responsible for elevating waste of flesh into his current position.

[karynnj]

36. Yet he prosecuted people who said similar things about Charlie Kirk

One obvious difference though is that the killer of Kirk himself said it was because of Kirk's hateful comments on trans people.

We don't know the whole story on Reiner, but there is NO reason to think it was because he spoke against Trump.

Question: Is Trump accepting blame because the killer acted due to hatred of what he calls TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

All in all, that statement is worse than any inappropriate Kirk comments and he is the President.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

38. He is THE SICK FUCK!

TACO has to make EVERYTHING about HIM!

God help us! QUICKLY!

[Johonny]

40. Everyone fired for shit posting Charlie Kirk should be rehired.

Because WTF man. WTF. The president demonstrates, this is the new America standard.

[LuckyCharms]

41. Lower and lower and lower...

Every day he goes lower.

This guy is one of the sickest motherfuckers in history.

Just as sick, however, are the people in his cabinet, and the republicans in the house and Senate, who are turning a blind eye to his depravity.

This is quite a world we are living in today.

There is a greater than zero chance that this guy could literally end the world.

[Dave Bowman]

42. What a pathetic little man.

[leftyladyfrommo]

43. Oh for God's sake.

[Girard442]

47. I think I need decontamination after reading that.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

49. Trump knows that the world will break out the champsgn when he croaks

He knows Trump haters out number MAGA that wearing fools

[Joinfortmill]

83. And, for once, he's right.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

84. Horns would be honking, fireworks going off

[chowder66]

50. I would like to see a journalist/reporter confront him on this message and then push back on his bullshit response.

Get him on record defending it or saying he didn't know anything about it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

51. More comments - Lawyers, Guns & Money, and Matt Yglesias:

This is utterly deranged, and totally unexceptionable. And that dichotomy is the essence of where we are now.

Fifty years from now, it will be difficult to convey to young people, in whatever form this country or its successor exists at that point, that the president of the United States was a frank sociopath.

Malignant narcissism enhanced by creeping dementia. A few years ago he would have thought this, but would have been able to control himself from saying it out loud.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/the-new-normal

"MAGA launched a mass movement to get people fired from their jobs for being insufficiently mournful about Charlie Kirk's murder."

Link to tweet

My comment: this was worse than I thought possible for him to be. I think that is indeed a sign of dementia. If that attack on Reiner was written by a lickspittle to "represent what Trump feels", then we are at the Mad King stage, with toadies encouraging the sociopathy - which may be even worse.

Does anyone think they are experimenting with different drugs for him? I'm thinking of his meeting with Mamdani, when he managed to be - "normal", more or less. It's standing out more and more, given his state since.

[GreenWave]

52. Heaven forbid part of a news cycle isn't about IQ 45 minus 47 equals minus 2.

[Rowdyag]

53. And ordinary people lost their jobs for simply quoting Charlie Kirk

After his death. Double standard ( no surprise)

[sheshe2]

55. Whoever wrote this for him, this is indeed his mindset,

his and the rest of their ilk.

It would have been better for all of us if they had just kept their mouths shut and said nothing at all.

[Emile]

57. You are right, someone wrote it for him. His

writing would be in all caps.

[spanone]

56. Truly a Sick Fuck

[Bluetus]

58. The Trump formula is not working anymore/ He is done.

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The formula, since the "Birther" days or even before, has been to wake up every morning trying to say or do something even more outrageous than the day before.

This is no longer working for him. Everywhere we look, people are racing to distance themselves from him. Trump signs and bumper stickers have all but disappeared. Candidates are running away from his endorsements. Congress people are openly defying him. The EU leaders ridicule him and actively work against his policies. And his poll ratings are the lowest ever recorded.

This latest statement about Reiner's tragic murder will not sit well with anybody, not even his strongest supporters. Ultimately, we are judged by the company we keep, and millions of former supporters have decided they have had enough.

[Joinfortmill]

87. Agree completely.

[2naSalit]

59. He needs to...

Be GONE now!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

61. So!

I wonder who will get cancelled for not showing the proper respect??

Oh how silly of me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

62. The slime has to make it about himself, like everything.

[OMGWTF]

64. I am disgusted that 11.7K jerkholes (and counting) "loved" this horrible statement.

WTF is WRONG with you?

[Alice Kramden]

72. Bots, mostly

I hope

[MustLoveBeagles]

65. Who's surprised by this?

It's who he is.

[mzmolly]

66. What a sick son of a bitch.

Though I don’t believe he wrote that, he certainly approved it.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

70. Trump is a disgusting piece of shit. No, actually he is the whole turd.

[Grim Chieftain]

71. He is sick, evil and demented beyond words

[TommieMommy]

76. How horrible 😡

[orangecrush]

77. Miller

Needs a visit to the Hauge.

"Defendants: Individuals, not states, and it operates when national courts are unwilling or unable to act. "

[Figarosmom]

78. Wow

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And this is our President?
I woke up with this song playing in my head and now I know why. This is so shameful.

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Shapes of Things
Song by The Yardbirds ‧ 1967

Overview
Lyrics
Other recordings
Shapes of things before my eyes
Just teach me to despise
Will time make men more wise?
Here within my lonely frame
My eyes just hurt my brain
But will it seem the same?
Come tomorrow, will I be older?
Come tomorrow, may be a soldier
Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today?
Now, the trees are almost green
But will they still be seen
When time and tide have been?
Fall into your passing hands
Please don't destroy these lands
Don't make them desert sands
Come tomorrow, will I be older?
Come tomorrow, may be a soldier
Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today?
Soon I hope that I will find
Thoughts deep within my mind
That won't disgrace my kind
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jim Mccarty / Keith Relf

[vapor2]

80. One sick Mo fucker

[Joinfortmill]

81. Beyond the pale. Impeach him.

[Klarkashton]

85. Reads more like a cheung post than a trump

Cheung is the all time shithead.

[B.See]

86. An unrivaled GIFT for finding lower STILL.

[Borogove]

89. Why would anyone be shocked by this? This is exactly who he is, and has always been.

[Upthevibe]

92. No words. N/T

[BradBo]

93. Trump JUST said "if you think that's bad, hold my beer".

[ThoughtCriminal]

98. Trumpiest Post

Three things:
1) Trump jumped to the conclusion that one of his followers did this in response to Reiner's political views
2) Like most Republicans, knee-jerk Blame-The-Victim
3) It's always about himself.

[NH Ethylene]

102. This is not surprising in the least - to us. But,

For the Magas who acted like the slightest negative comment about Charlie Kirk after his death was akin to a 'celebrating his death' and believed offenders should lose their jobs at the very least, it may have come as a surprise that their hero could be so unapologetically and viciously hypocritical.

[GoodRaisin]

105. I blame the enablers for releasing this demon from hell.

The dumbasses that voted him in and the Republicans in Congress that just sit and watch.

[Joinfortmill]

106. Trump Is Trash.

[calimary]

107. You've always gotta work your stupid shitty willfully myopic self into it, 'eh donald?

I'm pretty much through with even capitalizing the first letter of your first and last names.


Hey, donald, could you do us all a favor and disappear?

[yellow dahlia]

108. Scary thing is - he might actually try and top it one day. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

110. BUTBUTBUT HE WAS SO MEAN TO BAYBEE DONNY!

[C Moon]

111. He's beginning to sound like a Gov. Newsom parody of himself.

[Ray Bruns]

113. "This is one of the most psychotic things Trump has posted so far"

FIFY

[LetMyPeopleVote]

114. MaddowBlog-On the Reiners' death, Trump should have quit while he was behind

Facing criticism from the left, right and center, the president had a chance to make things better. He did not.

When Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered, and Trump responded with conspiracy theories and jokes, it reminded the world that Trump is a man devoid of grace and decency.

Targeting Rob Reiner, he did it again, digging a hole in the bottom of the barrel and falling even further.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-15T17:14:09.993Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/on-the-reiners-death-trump-should-have-quit-while-he-was-behind

But when the president responded to the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, by attacking one of the victims, suggesting the filmmaker brought on his own slaying with his criticisms of Trump, something unusual happened: A variety of GOP voices, including some in Congress, agreed that the president had gone too far in his lack of basic human decency.

In a normal White House, a president would see the pushback from his own ostensible allies and realize he’d made a mistake (although in a normal White House, the comment never would have happened in the first place). In this White House, Trump acted as if he’d never heard the old expression about quitting while behind.

Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?

TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-12-15T20:48:56.863Z

At an unrelated event in the Oval Office, a reporter reminded the president that “a number of Republicans” had denounced his statement related to Reiner and asked, “Do you stand by that post?”

The smart move would have been for Trump to dodge the question and change the subject. He did not, however, make the smart move.

“I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned,” the president said, referring to himself in third person. “He said he liked, he knew it was false — in fact, it’s the exact opposite — that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it.”

For good measure, the Republican added, “He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.”.....

Instead, let’s focus on the fact that Trump welcomed an avalanche of criticism from the left, right and center by condemning a celebrated artist immediately after learning of his death and, given an opportunity to make things better, made a conscious decision to make things worse.

Trump is who he appears to be: a small and petty man, incapable of empathy or grace, obsessed with his grievances, unaware of what it means to be “presidential” and unable to control his worst instincts.