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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities

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Rob Reiner speaks in Hollywood, California, on 25 April 2025. Photograph: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM

Celebrities and lawmakers have condemned Donald Trump after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on what he described as the acclaimed Hollywood director’s dislike of him.

After the killings of Reiner, 78, and his 68-year-old wife, Michele, who were found dead at their home Sunday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, Trump took to social media to call the director “tortured and struggling”. Trump also claimed Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”.

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