The words were so vicious, Jimmy Kimmel thought they had to be fake.
Then he read them out loud. As Hollywood mourned Rob and Michele Reiner,
the president chose mockery over mercy, doubling down even when given a chance to backtrack.
Kimmel snapped, Colbert went somber, and a shocking family tragedy grew even da
As the industry reeled from the brutal killing of Rob and Michele Reiner, the president’s
Truth Social post landed like a punch to the gut.
Instead of honoring a beloved director and his wife, he framed Reiner’s death as the twisted consequence of
“Trump derangement syndrome,” painting a grieving family as little more than a political punchline.
When reporters offered him a lifeline to soften his stance, he refused, calling Reiner “deranged” and “very bad for our country.”
Kimmel, visibly shaken, used his monologue to draw a line between ordinary political disagreement and
what he called a “sick and irresponsible man’s mouth.”
Colbert, normally playful, opened in near-eulogy, insisting that other people’s tragedy is “sacred ground.”
Meanwhile, details of a “very loud argument” between Rob and his son Nick at Conan O’Brien’s
Christmas party, followed by the couple’s horrific stabbing deaths and Nick’s arrest,
turned a national debate about decency into an unbearable human nightmare.
