- - Whoopi Goldberg Slams Donald Trump for Rob Reiner Remarks While Drawing Parallels to Charlie Kirk: 'Can You Get Any Lower?'

Greta BjornsonDecember 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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Whoopi Goldberg (L) on 'The View' on Dec. 15, 2025 and President Donald Trump (R) -

Whoopi Goldberg criticized Donald Trump on The View for the president's reaction to the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner

Trump claimed the director — one of his vocal critics — suffered from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and had a "raging obsession" with the president

Goldberg proclaimed, "You ain’t my president, man"

Whoopi Goldberg declared that President Donald Trump has reached a new low after his reaction to the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

The president, 79, claimed in a Monday, Dec. 15, Truth Social post that Rob died at age 78 from "the anger he caused others" and said that the director — one of his outspoken critics — suffered from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Rob and Michele, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, Calif. home on Sunday, Dec. 14. Multiple sources close to the family told PEOPLE that Rob and Michele's son Nick killed his parents.

On Monday's episode of The View, Goldberg, 70, criticized Trump for his rhetoric after the Reiners' deaths and proclaimed he is not her president.

"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."

She went on to reference other tragedies from recent days, including the shootings at Brown University and Australia's Bondi Beach, respectively, which preceded 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," Goldberg added.

Trump did address the shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach while delivering remarks at a White House Christmas reception on Sunday. Goldberg later clarified her comments and issued a correction.

"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."

Goldberg had a close relationship with Rob, who directed her in his 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 of The View, as an image from that evening 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 said, referring to Rob's work over the years championing progressive causes.

Goldberg's co-host Ana Navarro also praised Rob's advocacy and slammed Trump's response, telling her co-hosts the late director was "deeply engaged" and "cared about equality and injustice."

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President Donald Trump (L) in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 7, 2025 and Rob Reiner (R) in East Hampton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2017

"For Trump to have put this out today, I’m going to say it: Dammit, there’s an American family grieving," Navarro said. "This is a tragedy, not just for the family but for all who knew and loved him."

She continued, "And for the President of the United States to make this about him in a way to attack Rob Reiner because he exercised his American right to speak up about what he disagreed with is shameful, is disgraceful and out of all the disgusting things Donald Trump has done, is right up there."

Trump's post came the morning after news of Rob and Michele's deaths broke. He wrote, "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."

He continued, "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!"

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While his post stirred up anger around The View's Hot Topics table, it also sparked a reaction from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose once-close relationship with Trump has soured in recent months over their disagreements on the release of the Epstein files, among other issues.

"Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak," Greene wrote on X in response to Trump's post.

She continued, "This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies. Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It’s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder."

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