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Jimmy Kimmel Criticizes Trump’s Comments About Rob Reiner

Jimmy Kimmel rebuked President Trump for a post blaming director Rob Reiner for his own death, calling the comments "hateful and vile" and advocating for compassion.

  • On Monday, Jimmy Kimmel, late-night host, paid tribute to Rob Reiner after the director and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead Sunday and called President Donald Trump's post `hateful and vile`.
  • Trump's Truth Social post suggested Rob Reiner died reportedly due to `TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME`, which Kimmel called a `rush to pin the tail on the donkey`; despite backlash, President Donald Trump doubled down Monday.
  • Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner, 32-year-old son, was booked for murder on Monday and held without bail; Kimmel played a White House press clip of President Donald Trump doubling down, calling him a `sick and irresponsible man`.
  • The post prompted widespread condemnation, and Jimmy Kimmel credited a handful of Republican critics who urged viewers `If you voted for that, it's OK to reconsider`, promising to keep speaking out in honor of Rob Reiner.
  • Kimmel's long-running feud with President Donald Trump intensified as Kimmel, after his show was briefly pulled by ABC, linked weekend tragedies at Bondi Beach and Brown University to a need for `compassion and leadership`.
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The host has rejected the US president's comments on the film director

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American comedian Jimmy Kimmel called the president of the United States, Donald Trump, a "sick and irresponsible man" after the assault on filmmaker Rob Reiner, who passed away last weekend.

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“When I first saw her, I thought it was false,” said the host in his show about Trump’s release: “I thought, ‘Even for him, that seemed too much.’ But nothing is too much for him.” Trump blames Rob Reiner for his murder: “He had the anti-Trump alienation syndrome.” The host Jimmy Kimmel has criticized on his night program the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for something he considers “too much even for him”: blaming a person for hi…

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Consequence broke the news in on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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