NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) -- President Donald Trump ridiculed Rob Reiner in a social media post Monday morning after the death of the Hollywood director and his wife.
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, 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,” Trump wrote.
Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Brentwood home on Sunday after suffering stab wounds, the Associated Press reported. A family member, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday. No charges were listed in the arrest, according to the booking statement. Bail was set at $4 million.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s post.
Reiner, whose credits include This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, and When Harry Met Sally, was a longtime Democratic donor and critic of the president.
“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before,” Trump continued. “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Other political leaders expressed their condolences following news of the deaths.
“Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen,” former President Barack Obama said in a social media post. “But beneath all of the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people — and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action.”
Reiner, the son of legendary comedian Carl Reiner, earned an Academy Award nomination for his courtroom drama A Few Good Men and two Emmy awards for his acting as “Meathead” in All in the Family. He met his wife Michele — a photographer whose photo of Trump appears on the cover of his book The Art of the Deal — on the set of When Harry Met Sally.
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