Trump's Attack on Rob Reiner is a New Low

by Rod Williams, Dec. 15, 2025 - Every time I think Donald Trump has hit a new low, he outdoes himself and hits a newer low. I am not talking about policies or his corruption or authoritarian tendencies, or his ignorance of the Constitution, or his economic illiteracy. I am talking about his crealty, his vulgarity, his uncouth behavior, and his contempt for standards of human decency. 

When he made fun of a news reporter with a disability, when he said the Haitians were eating our cats and dogs, when he called immigrants "vermin," and so much more, I thought he had hit a new low. Well, he has outdone himself again. His comments following the brutal murder of Rob Reiner was a new low.

Trump was not obligated to offer any comment at all about Reiner. Rob Reiner, while an important Hollywood actor and director, was not an important political figure or a former president or a beloved national figure or a Trump protege. It would have been perfectly acceptable for the President to have said nothing unless he was specifically asked.

If asked, the normal thing to do would be to express condolences to the family, the old "our thoughts and prayers are with the family, ect..."  If he wanted to say more, he could have said he hoped the perpetrator was brought to justice, and he could have said he deplored the violence. 

Instead of doing what any decent human being would have done in this case, Trump used Rob Reiner's brutal murder as an opportunity to trash the man. Not yet dead twenty-four hours, and Trump had to attack the man and settle a score. Donald J. Trump is not nice. He is not normal. He is a despicable human being.