Whoopi Goldberg blasts Trump’s remarks on Rob Reiner’s death: ‘Have you no shame at all?'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg blasted President Donald Trump over his response to the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
Reiner, 78, and Michele, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, California, home on Sunday, December 14. Multiple sources close to the family told People that the couple’s son, Nick Reiner, killed his parents.
Trump trashes longtime critic after his death
The morning after news of the deaths broke, Trump, 79, took to Truth Social with a post about Reiner.
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” the president wrote. “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 added, “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. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Whoopi Goldberg fires back on ‘The View’
Goldberg, 70, addressed Trump’s comments during Monday’s episode of 'The View'. “I don’t understand the man in that White House. Because he talks so much about Charlie Kirk and caring, and suddenly this is what he puts out,” she told the panel. “Have you no shame? No shame at all? Can you get any lower? I don’t think so.”
Goldberg said Trump does not represent her. She also referenced other recent tragedies, including shootings at Brown University and Australia’s Bondi Beach, which occurred in the days leading up to the Reiners’ deaths.
“And what do you have to say about what’s happening around the world? Where is our voice as Americans. Somebody’s got to speak up for us,” Goldberg continued. “Our hearts are breaking through all of this.
“Through Rob, to what’s happened at Bondi Beach, to what’s happened at Brown, and you don’t find the time to say as Americans, ‘We hate what’s happening?’ You ain’t my president, man,” she added.
Trump did, in fact, address the shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach during remarks at a White House Christmas reception on Sunday. Goldberg later acknowledged that on air.
“As it turns out yesterday, you know who put his condolences out to the people who are looking down at us from heaven and the folks at Brown,” she said, referring to Trump. “But this is how he followed it up, about Rob Reiner. So, my bad. You did say something. Not what I would have liked to have heard from you, but you did do it, so there you go.”
Whoopi Goldberg reflects on her friendship with Rob Reiner
Goldberg also spoke personally about Reiner, whom she knew well and worked with closely over the years. Reiner notably directed her in the 1996 film 'Ghosts of Mississippi.'
“He was a friend. I literally saw him the last time I did the Kennedy Center, because we were honoring Billy [Crystal],” she said on Monday’s episode, as a photo from the event appeared on screen.
“This is when Billy got the Mark Twain Award. But we were together quite a bit, and he was a wonderful director and a guy who was a stand-up guy. And he fought for the stuff that was right,” she added, referring to Reiner’s long history of championing progressive causes.
