What exactly did Rob Reiner say about the Trump shooting and when were the comments made?
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Executive summary
The reporting provided contains no record of Rob Reiner commenting about a “Trump shooting”; instead the coverage documents President Donald Trump’s reactive posts and remarks about Rob Reiner after Reiner and his wife were found dead, and it records Reiner’s past public criticism of Trump but not any statement about a shooting (limitation noted) [1] [2]. Trump’s remarks — a Truth Social post on the morning after the deaths and repeated remarks to reporters later that day — accused Reiner of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” saying Reiner “drove people CRAZY,” and called him “a deranged person,” which provoked bipartisan condemnation [3] [2] [4].
1. What the record actually shows: no sourced quote from Rob Reiner about a ‘Trump shooting’
None of the supplied reporting includes any quotation, interview, social post, or on-the-record remark by Rob Reiner about a “Trump shooting” or similar phrasing; available articles instead focus on President Trump’s response to Reiner’s killing and on Reiner’s longstanding public opposition to Trump, meaning the exact statement the question asks about is not present in these sources and cannot be confirmed or dated from this reporting [1] [5].
2. Precisely what Trump said about Reiner and when he said it
According to the reporting, Trump posted on Truth Social on the morning after Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead, writing that Reiner “was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” and saying the deaths were “reportedly due to the anger he caused others” through what he called “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” (Truth Social post quoted in multiple outlets) [6] [7] [8]. Later that same day, speaking to reporters in the White House, Trump doubled down, saying in the third person that Reiner “was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned” and reiterating “I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way shape or form” [3] [2].
3. How outlets record the timing and context of the remarks
News organizations uniformly date the president’s initial social-media message to Monday morning immediately following the discovery of the deaths, and they report his White House comments as taking place later that same day as he defended the post to reporters — a close sequence that outlets describe as occurring while police were still investigating and before a motive had been established [4] [1] [3]. Several outlets emphasize that the Reiners’ adult son had been arrested around the same time but that law enforcement had not publicly tied any motive to Reiner’s politics in the reporting available [9] [4].
4. The exact language reported and how newsrooms framed it
Multiple sources reproduce lengthy, nearly identical phrasings from the president’s post and remarks: references to Reiner as “tortured and struggling,” claims that the deaths were “reportedly due to the anger he caused others,” the label “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” and the line that Reiner “drove people CRAZY” with “raging obsession” [6] [7] [5]. News organizations frame these as unsubstantiated political attributions inserted into a family tragedy, noting they were made while investigations continued and that no evidence in reporting tied Reiner’s politics to the killings [1] [4].
5. Reactions, alternate viewpoints and implicit agendas visible in coverage
The reporting records immediate bipartisan backlash — from Republicans such as Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene to Democrats and media figures — who called Trump’s comments inappropriate and urged empathy for the family, while some conservative outlets and personalities defended or contextualized the post as consistent with Trump’s rhetoric [10] [6] [8]. Several outlets note implicit agendas: critics saw the post as politicizing a murder to score rhetorical points, while some pro-Trump voices reiterated the “TDS” talking point as a political cudgel; newsrooms flagged the White House’s initial sharing of the post and lack of subsequent retraction [3] [4].
6. What cannot be claimed from the supplied reporting
These sources do not contain any quotation from Rob Reiner about a “Trump shooting,” nor do they provide evidence that Reiner’s politics were a motive in his and his wife’s deaths; investigators’ conclusions about motive were not reported in the material supplied, and therefore cannot be asserted here [9] [1].