When and where did rob reiner liken trump to adolf hitler or joseph stalin in interviews or social posts?
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Executive summary
Rob Reiner has been the subject of public attacks from former President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post and follow-up comments to reporters after Reiner and his wife were found dead on Dec. 15, 2025; Trump called Reiner “tortured and struggling,” accused him of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and later told reporters he “was not a fan” and called Reiner “a deranged person” [1] [2]. Available sources do not mention Rob Reiner himself likening Trump to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin; instead, the record in these reports describes Trump attacking Reiner after the couple’s deaths [3] [4].
1. What the reporting actually documents — Trump’s comparisons and insults
News outlets across the U.S. reported that President Trump posted on Truth Social alleging the Reiners’ deaths were “reportedly due to the anger he caused others” and that Reiner suffered from a “mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” language amplified by Trump in Oval Office remarks calling Reiner “a deranged person” and saying “I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all” [5] [2] [6].
2. The user’s specific claim — who likened whom to Hitler or Stalin
The search results you provided include extensive coverage of Trump’s post about Rob Reiner but do not show any article in which Rob Reiner likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. The sources focus on Trump’s remarks after the Reiners’ deaths; they do not document Reiner making Hitler or Stalin comparisons in interviews or social posts (available sources do not mention Reiner likening Trump to Hitler or Stalin) [3] [1].
3. Context: Reiner’s public record as a critic (what the sources do say)
The reporting notes that Rob Reiner has been a long‑time, outspoken critic of Trump and a prominent Democratic supporter; outlets cite his past criticism of Trump’s fitness for office and his involvement in public political debates, which helps explain why Trump singled him out in the Truth Social post and Oval Office comments [7] [8]. But none of the provided pieces quote Reiner using totalitarian analogies in the items you supplied [7] [8].
4. Reactions and political framing in the coverage
Media accounts highlight bipartisan condemnation of Trump’s timing and tone — Republicans like Rep. Thomas Massie and Democrats, celebrities and commentators criticized the president for politicizing a family tragedy and for dismissive language after two people were murdered [3] [4] [6]. Several outlets characterized Trump’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” line as a familiar partisan taunt rather than a substantive rebuttal [7] [5].
5. Limitations of the available record and next steps to verify
The sources you provided are comprehensive about Trump’s post and immediate fallout but do not contain a catalog of all statements Reiner made across years of interviews and social posts. If you want definitive evidence that Reiner ever compared Trump to Hitler or Stalin, those remarks would need to be located in other archives — interview transcripts, opinion columns, speeches or Reiner’s own social posts — none of which appear in these search results (available sources do not mention such comparisons by Reiner) [3] [1].
6. Competing perspectives and implicit agendas in coverage
News outlets presented competing emphases: some focused on the moral shock of politicizing a murder, others on the factual absence of any link between the Reiners’ political views and the crimes, and some on the broader pattern of harsh public exchanges between celebrities and political figures [1] [4] [8]. Readers should note editorial slants: outlets like Rolling Stone and The Guardian framed Trump’s remarks as especially egregious in tone [9] [10], while conservative‑leaning publications quoted or contextualized Trump’s doubling down for their audiences [11].
7. Bottom line
Based on the supplied reporting, the documented sequence is Trump attacking Rob Reiner on Truth Social and repeating insults to reporters after the Dec. 15, 2025 killings; the materials you provided do not show Rob Reiner likening Trump to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin, and those specific comparisons are not found in the current reporting (p1_s5; [2]; available sources do not mention Reiner likening Trump to Hitler or Stalin). If you want, I can search for Reiner’s past interviews and posts specifically for any Hitler/Stalin comparisons and report back with citations.