What were the exact words Rob Reiner said when Trump was shot. Answer only this question.
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Executive summary
Rob Reiner’s exact quoted words at the time of the killing are not contained in the provided sources; available reporting focuses on President Trump’s comments after Reiner and his wife were found dead and on Reiner’s past criticism of Trump (not a direct quote at the death scene) [1] [2].
1. What the sources actually record about “what Rob Reiner said”
None of the supplied articles quote Rob Reiner speaking at or about the moment when he was shot; instead they report on the reaction to his death, the arrest of his son, and prior remarks Reiner had made about President Trump — but not any contemporaneous statement by Reiner about the killing itself [1] [2].
2. How reporting frames Trump’s words, not Reiner’s
Multiple outlets reproduced President Trump’s Truth Social post and Oval Office comments describing Reiner as “tortured and struggling,” accusing him of suffering from “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” and saying “I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form,” while noting authorities were still investigating the deaths [3] [4] [5].
3. What Reiner had said publicly about Trump before the killing
Reporting documents that Reiner had been an outspoken critic of Trump for years, including calling Trump “mentally unfit” in past coverage; those prior criticisms appear in reporting as context for the national reaction but are not presented as quotes made at the time of the killing [6] [4].
4. Police and motive: gaps in the record
News outlets emphasize that police were investigating the deaths as homicides and that the couple’s son was arrested, while explicitly stating that authorities had not connected the killings to political motives — a factual gap that undercuts any claim that Reiner said anything about being targeted before or as he died [1] [2].
5. Why the question may have arisen — and how reporting answers it
The public question “what did Rob Reiner say when Trump was shot” appears to conflate two separate threads in coverage: (a) Reiner’s longstanding vocal criticism of Trump, and (b) Trump’s post-mortem commentary blaming Reiner’s politics for the deaths. Reporting presents Trump’s exact words at length but does not record any contemporaneous utterance by Reiner about Trump at the time of the killing [3] [2].
6. Competing viewpoints in the coverage
Mainstream outlets uniformly criticized Trump’s decision to politicize the deaths; some conservative outlets and commentators defended or contextualized his statements. But none of the sources supply an on-the-record quote from Rob Reiner made at the time of or immediately before the murder [5] [7].
7. Limitations and what’s not in the sources
Available sources do not mention any precise words spoken by Rob Reiner when he was shot; they do not provide a police transcript, a bystander account of speech at the scene, or any documented last statements by Reiner [2] [1]. If you seek an exact contemporaneous quotation from Reiner about his attacker or about Trump at the time of the killing, that material is not found in current reporting.
8. Bottom line: what can be answered now
You can be given verbatim reporting of President Trump’s post and subsequent remarks about Rob Reiner — which the supplied sources do contain — but the specific question asking for “the exact words Rob Reiner said when Trump was shot” cannot be answered from these sources because they contain no such quote or documentation of Reiner speaking at that moment [3] [2].