Can you get me a copy of the RIGHT Truth Social Post trump posted about Rob Reiner?
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Executive summary
President Donald Trump posted a Truth Social message about the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife that framed the couple’s killing as linked to Reiner’s political opposition and what Trump called “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” (TDS) [1] [2]. Multiple mainstream outlets reproduced the full text or key excerpts of the Truth Social post and reported immediate public backlash and criticism of the president’s framing [3] [4].
1. What the Truth Social post said — and where to find it
Trump’s post opened, “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” then described Reiner as “a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star,” and concluded the couple “passed away … reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS” [1] [2]. Major outlets (The Hill, The Wrap, People) published either screenshots or verbatim quotes from the Truth Social message [1] [2] [3].
2. You asked for a copy of the RIGHT Truth Social post — availability and limitations
Available reporting reproduces the text quoted above and includes screenshots referenced by outlets such as HuffPost and Raw Story [4] [5]. If by “RIGHT” you mean the exact, original Truth Social entry as posted on Trump’s account, news organizations published verbatim quotations and imagery of the post; those are the closest available copies in the public record cited here [4] [2]. Available sources do not mention a separate “right” or alternative version of the post beyond what these outlets reported.
3. How news outlets presented the post — tone and selection
Outlets reported the post as politicizing a violent double-homicide and often highlighted the most incendiary lines — the attribution of cause to “TDS” and the characterization of Reiner as obsessively anti-Trump — while juxtaposing that language with tributes from other leaders and details of the police investigation [6] [7] [8]. Some reports included screenshots of the Truth Social post; others quoted it in full and framed it as strikingly unsympathetic given the circumstances [9] [10].
4. Public, political and media reaction — competing viewpoints
Coverage shows immediate backlash from across the political spectrum: critics called the message heartless and politicized; some of Trump’s allies expressed discomfort, while conservative figures defended him in certain outlets [5] [11]. News organizations emphasized both the criticism and the factual context — that the deaths were being investigated as an apparent homicide and that a family member was in custody — allowing readers to weigh the president’s rhetoric against unfolding facts [12] [10].
5. Context the reporting provides about cause and investigation
Contemporaneous reporting clearly separates Trump’s claim (that Reiner’s political posture caused “anger” leading to the deaths) from law-enforcement facts: LAPD said the deaths were being investigated as an apparent homicide, and early reports indicated a son had been taken into custody; outlets noted those investigative details alongside the president’s post [12] [3] [10]. None of the cited sources present evidence that political criticism caused the killing; they treat Trump’s framing as political commentary reported verbatim [1] [2].
6. How to obtain the original post or an image of it
News organizations reproduced the message text and in many cases a screenshot — HuffPost and Raw Story explicitly referenced a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post [4] [5]. To see the original as posted, consult the Truth Social account directly or the screenshots embedded in reporting from The Hill, The Wrap, People, Variety, Rolling Stone and other outlets cited here [1] [2] [3] [10] [6].
7. Caveats, limits of the sources, and what’s not in current reporting
Available sources reproduce and critique the Truth Social post but do not supply a downloadable master file of the original Truth Social entry; they provide screenshots and verbatim quotation instead [4] [2]. Available sources do not mention any later edit or retraction by Trump of that specific Truth Social message [1] [7]. If you need the post for publication or legal use, note that outlets have preserved quotes and images you can cite or link to; if you require the native Truth Social file, consult Truth Social’s platform archives (not cited here) — not found in current reporting [4] [2].
If you want, I can collect the exact verbatim quotations as reproduced by The Hill, The Wrap and People (all cited above) and package those lines together with linked screenshots reported by HuffPost and Raw Story for convenient reference.