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Episode Title
Trump's Disgusting Reaction to Rob Reiner's Murder Backfires On Him
Episode Overview In this episode, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan discuss the tragic murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner and the ensuing controversial comments made by former President Donald Trump. The discussion highlights themes of political opportunism, addiction, mental health, and the implications of violent rhetoric in political discourse.
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Key Discussions
The Tragedy of Rob Reiner's Murder
- Incident Overview: Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their home, with the alleged perpetrator being their son, who reportedly struggled with addiction.
- Media Response: The incident shocked Hollywood and raised concerns regarding mental health and the impacts of addiction on families.
Trump's Reaction
- Trump’s Statement: In a post, Trump referred to Reiner as suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and used the tragedy to assert his own perspective on Reiner's political views.
- Hosts' Outrage: Welch and Sullivan expressed disbelief at Trump's narcissistic behavior, emphasizing how he politicized a family tragedy and disregarded the human suffering involved.
- Criticism from Republicans: Some Republican figures, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, condemned Trump's response, pointing out the need for empathy in such situations.
Broader Political Implications
- Political Narcissism: The hosts draw connections between Trump’s behavior and broader issues in political discourse, highlighting how his administration perpetuated a culture of disrespect and dehumanization.
- Mental Health and Addiction: The episode underscores the need for greater awareness and compassion regarding mental health and addiction, as many families, including those in the Republican base, struggle with these issues.
The Role of Media and Public Figures
- Media Responsibility: The hosts criticize media figures and politicians who enable Trump’s harmful rhetoric without accountability.
- Public Response: They question how various political figures will react to Trump's statements moving forward, emphasizing the need for a moral response to such rhetoric.
Gun Violence and Societal Issues
- Related Violence: The episode ties the tragedy of Reiner’s murder to broader issues of gun violence in society, particularly related to recent incidents on campuses.
- Call for Action: Welch and Sullivan advocate for addressing the root causes of violence and promoting community engagement to combat these issues.
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Key Takeaways
- Empathy vs. Narcissism: The episode contrasts Trump's self-serving remarks with a call for empathy and understanding in times of tragedy.
- Political Responsibility: There is a demand for political leaders to take responsibility for their words and actions, particularly regarding sensitive issues like addiction and violence.
- Community Engagement: The hosts encourage listeners to stay engaged in political advocacy and to support efforts aimed at creating a more compassionate and understanding society.
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Conclusion The episode serves as a poignant reminder of the impact of political rhetoric on societal issues, especially in the face of personal tragedies. Welch and Sullivan’s comedic yet critical analysis provides a unique perspective on contemporary political discourse, emphasizing the need for empathy, accountability, and community action.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:10All right, a lot of sad, sad news coming out of so many places, Australia, Brown University And then everybody has probably heard about Rob Reiner and his wife being murdered in their home. Kylie put up the headline. Reiner's son is arrested. Gruesome murders shock Hollywood. I can't even read that. The parents were stabbed. And Trump, of course, has to chime in on all of this. Presidents usually do chime in on things like this. But let's listen to what Kinks had to say. 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 Michelle 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 his TDS.
1:11He 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 Michelle rest in peace. Okay. That is so psychotic. I can't even wrap my head around how narcissistically psychotic this man is. Pumps. He made someone's death murder about himself. He had to bring himself into it. And for him to say, Rob Reiner's struggling and all this, Rob Reiner called balls and strikes with Trump and was not scared or intimidated by Trump.
2:00And this, this is so despicable and tells you exactly who the problem is with demeaning people, rhetoric, all that shit. Like you cannot be the president of the United States and act like this. It's just so embarrassing. So, um, one thing that I think we need to add is, is the son was struggling from addiction. And I think in 2015, Rob Reiner and the son made a documentary about addiction. And so this family is really, um, probably the son had relapsed. That's just, I'm deducing this. Um, but some Republicans have come out against Kanks's psychotic truth, social posts. Um, Kylie, why don't you pop up Marjorie Taylor Green's response.
2:53Marge says, Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and the remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak. This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies. Many families deal with a family member with a drug addiction and mental health issues. It's incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy, especially when it ends in murder. So here's Marjorie Taylor Greene yet again outflanking people, calling out this psychosis of this dementia riddled sociopathic president that we have, sadly.
3:35And other Republicans are also piling on. Kylie put up some more of these. Thomas Massey said, regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, the White House staff will just ignore it because they're afraid. I challenge anyone to defend it. Now, this is a really interesting response, and it's something that pumps and I speak to quite often. You can have a single solitary nut, which we have in Kanks, the president of the United States, but he's surrounded by people that just rubber stamp and go along with all of his psychotic breaks and meltdowns.
4:22And Thomas Massey, I find myself very strange bedfellows with right now because he's exactly right. Will Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, who's tight as ticks with Jesus Christ, is he going to speak out against this? is a little smoky eye sociopath, the failed drag queen, J.D. Vance. No. Stephen Miller, of course not. So when you think about that Trump does this and everyone around him just says, yeah, that's great. Keep doing it. You're doing a great job, buddy. Golden age of America. I just keep thinking, good God, we are so screwed. Yeah. I mean, when you think about all the times that Mike Johnson has been asked a question and he says, I don't know.
5:05I didn't see it. So are we just going to get just a complete wrath of senators and congressmen that don't know or didn't see it? Like it's your fucking job to know. That's your job. You're third in line to the presidency. And you know, you hear about people as they get older, mental illness is progressive. It continues. And it's, he, he's decompensating. I know that's a medical term and I'm not medical, but this Kylie said when this first came out she said I'm mad I still get shocked by how depraved he is like this to me even for him who I find to be the most despicable leader I mean it's just it's beyond the pale even for Trump and that is such a low bar see I disagree I this is right on course with who he has shown me he has been from the very beginning.
6:02This is the type of person, Rob Reiner, scratch the surface. And once you get behind this toxic masculinity that he tries to exert and that all of the sycophants around him are like, oh yeah, you're a macho guy. YMCA, listen to your opera, decorate the Oval Office. Their weird distorted version of masculinity behind it is just profound boiling insecurity. And how many times have we seen him throw feces on true social? It's all the time. I just, this is just another day in this country where he does crazy depraved shit. Remember when he did that to Megyn Kelly? And now what does she do? She goes and shills for him every single day on her podcast.
6:50And so, but these fissures in the, in the Republican base, it's that that's interesting to me because they're starting to show a little bit of resistance. Now, he was in the Oval Office just a few moments ago, and they asked him if he stands by this tweet. And here's what he said. A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on True Social after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that post? Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said he liked he knew it was false. In fact, It's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia.
7:30You know, it was the Russia hooks. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in career wise. He became like a deranged person. Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country. Yeah.
7:49It's unbelievable. I mean, he doubles down. I knew he would double down. I knew he'd get asked about it. I knew he would double down. He never, ever says, you know, I thought about it and that was inappropriate. I probably should walk that back. Or no, he just doubles the fuck down. And I just have to say, I found the language of he said, and he knew it wasn't true. In fact, it's the opposite that I'm a friend of Russia or controlled by Russia. Dude, you don't, nobody, nobody has to be deranged to know that. They have to be able to look at the facts. But I just thought that was interesting the way he, he knows it wasn't true.
8:30And it's quite the opposite. In fact, I just thought his language was weird, but no, he, he always talks like that though. Pumps, it's always like, you know, and everybody knows this or that actually what he always is. It's such a tell. Everything he does is always covering up his profound insecurity. And here's the thing. If this whole idea that if he's surrounded by more loyalists would fix him, then this term would be better than Trump 1.0. But in fact, what is true is when you have a sick psycho, piggy boy, pudding boy, Trump, and you surround yourself with even sicker people, you have a worse situation.
9:10Everybody is placating to this man's worst impulses. Having yes men around you and people that tell you you're great all the time is the worst thing for you. I mean, this guy is the absolute worst. The damage to our country is unbelievable. But Pumps, this is really interesting. Between the time that he sent out the truth social tweet and the time that the press followed up in the Oval, Kylie discovered on Twitter that Elon Musk was running interference via Grok. So he gave Grok another lobotomy and had Grok out on Twitter fact checking the true social tweet saying that it wasn't real. And so here's for those that are listening, it says here's a screenshot of Trump's insane, psychotic, almost victory dance on Rob Reiner's murdered grave and his wife's grade while the bodies are still warm.
10:10Somebody asked, Grok, is this real? Grok goes in and says, no, that screenshot appears to be fabricated. I couldn't find any such post on Trump's ex-account or mentions of it in recent news. While Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically found dead on December 14th, 2025, there's no evidence Trump commented on it in this way. And then over here, Grok says, upon checking the provided true social link, the post doesn't exist. I also reviewed Trump's recent posts on True Social and X, none match the screenshot, news reports confirm, blah, blah, blah. This seems fabricated. So then Kylie went immediately after Grok got a lobotomy from Musk.
10:52Kylie goes immediately back to True Social and it exists. And then after the lobotomized Grok starts trying to cover for kinks, he goes into the oval and triples down on this thing. And so you've got these, you know, Elon Musk. I mean, oh my God, this man, if I have to hear one more interview of him grandstanding about all this shit that he knows nothing about. Number one, he's painfully boring. Number two, he's not that great. Number three, how insecure are you that you have to have an AI robot and you have to lobotomize it whenever you want to change the truth? Like, did you know, Pumps, he had Grok lobotomized so bad that people were asking Grok, who is a better physical specimen, LeBron James or Elon Musk?
11:42And Grok picked Elon Musk. LeBron James. I mean, like, arguably the best basketball player ever. A total phenom. I mean, you could go down the rabbit hole. Is Jordan better? Is LeBron better? My sons do this all the time. But nonetheless, he's a total physical specimen. And then you've got Chunk Boy on ketamine and you've Grok has been so lobotomized that it's saying that Elon Musk. And so it's just these men and their fragile egos. Yeah, here's what's fascinating to me, Pops. Do these other, I guess it is an insecure man when they see an Elon Musk or they see a Trump, they think, oh yeah, that's masculinity.
12:27These guys are tough. Like, I don't know. It's so bizarre. I don't know. I would think that probably it's the worship of the money and the power that, you know, Elon Musk can do whatever he wants because he's so rich and he's so powerful. So I'm going to like him anyway. I can't, I really would be hard pressed to believe that there is a man out there that looks at Elon Musk or Donald Trump and says right there, just physically, right there is the physique. It's everything I want in looks. I would think it would have to be the other stuff. I just can't, even like a dumb triple Trumper, I don't think they could think, oh my God, That's my ideal look.
13:11I think they do think it is. I, there's something, yes, because time and time again, they're always returning to this really weird, distorted form of, of masculinity with these men. And I think that they just get so blurry with their, uh, it has to be wrapped up in money, you know, and, and they have blinders. oh it's just so insane um all right kylie what else do we have to review a lot of people on socials are wanting to share rob reiner's response on pierce morgan right after charlie kirk's assassination just to show the duality between these two so i can cue that up that'd be great first heard about the murder of charlie kirk what was your immediate gut reaction to it Well, horror.
14:08Absolute horror. And I unfortunately saw the video of it. And it's beyond belief, what happened to him. And that should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like what his wife said at the service, at the memorial they had, was exactly right. And totally, I believe, you know, I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus. And I believe in doing to others. And I believe in forgiveness. And what she said to me was beautiful. and absolutely, you know, she forgave his assassin. And I think that that is admirable.
15:07I mean, what a sweet man. Yeah. And you think about, he's been in our life, like my life, because I'm, you know, over 50. Significantly older than me. Fuck off. You know, he's been around forever. He was an actor. I mean, he was just in everything. But this kind of reminded me of, I was looking on the response because I was waiting for Republicans to come out en masse against this, ha ha. But I saw so many tweets of people saying, you know, the left was so ugly about Charlie Kirk's death, which they, you know, in isolation, but not in leadership. But, you know, the right, they handle things better.
15:49And then Trump comes out with this. and nobody thinks, I mean, nobody that I saw, and maybe they're just not going to do it on Twitter, but they don't say, that's not cool. Like you can't act that way. You can't try to blame everything on somebody else and then be worse than what you're saying they're doing. But then it goes to the split screen of these people do not live in reality. They think that, you know, Epstein's a hoax, the economy, what's, that's a hoax. You know, I mean, it's like, can they be reached in reality? My guess is maybe not the 30%, but there's got to be some people that saw this that were like, geez, Louise.
16:29Well, I think that we all know, and we've known for a very long time from other Republicans, and now Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying the same thing. They all talk about him behind his back and they have forever. They're just so cowardly. They don't, they don't act on it. So that's why you have mass resignations right now. You have little Moses Mike grinder Johnson, who just is completely, I mean, he has such a powerful job and he does nothing and, you know, and uses his faith to try to provide cover for himself and Christian signal to other people. And this whole thing with Rob Reiner and his son is so it's about addiction.
17:05The whole thing is probably about addiction and mental illness. The thing about Charlie Kirk dying is about gun violence. When you think about that, there's a link between Charlie Kirk's death and the shootings that just happened at Brown University. And it is gun violence on campuses. And it's just really, really sad that we have these problems and there are very distinct, verifiable, objective causes for them. And the government does not jump on what those causes are and say, oh, we're helpers. We're here to to navigate and try to prevent as government. We want to keep you safe and we want to prevent these things from happening again.
17:49And instead, what you have now is we have an FBI who wants to fit the narrative of a shooter being a particular kind of person. Like we did an episode earlier today on the Australian shootings. I mean, horrible, horrible stuff. And there was this brave Syrian immigrant who runs a fruit stand, Muslim, and he went and he tackled the shooter, saved probably countless of lives. And, you know, they didn't want it. It's against their narrative that this Muslim did this. And they just, there's so many people that just want to divide and keep us in groups. And this thing with Rob Reiner, I hate to say it, but Marjorie Taylor Greene's right about that.
18:31Addiction plagues so many families and it rips families apart. It happens to MAGA people, it happens to Democrats, it happens to independents, it happens to everybody. And the president who had a brother who was, you know, Mary Trump's dad, who was a horrible alcoholic. And, you know, this is not something that he's ever going to come out and speak about addiction. This is something when Hunter Biden, you know, they exploited and, you know, there's never, well, Hunter Biden is now in recovery. You know, everything's just this bullshit game. And when it comes to these shootings, it's just horribly sad that nobody in Charlie Kirk's orbit, not one person will say, we've got to do something about gun violence.
19:24We need to do something. Bill Clinton had done a lot of gun restrictions on semi-automatic weapons. George W. Bush came and reversed them. And gun violence has increased by almost 300 % since that reversal. And so it's just depressing. It's really depressing. And it's sad. I always go back to this, and I think it's because I have young adults, children, but it's like their whole lives, this lack of decency, this lack of empathy has been on display and lauded by half the country. And it's like, that is not what a leader looks like. That is not what a leader sounds like. And I look to all these Christian people that lay their hands on him and they talk in tongues.
20:13Where's their response? We need better from our president. We need to not do people in death, but they're never gonna fucking do it because they don't give a shit. It's Christian. You know what I think, Pumps? Like I watched a lot of the Erica Kirk CBS thing and you listen to all these people that are in like, you know, the when they discuss the Charlie Kirk thing, they don't discuss gun violence because in their world, it's it he it's a spiritual warfare thing. They think that the evil forces killed Charlie. The gun is irrelevant in their mind. They think, oh, these demonic leftist Democrats killed Charlie.
20:56And they think they're struggling in this imaginary spiritual warfare thing. And when you see Erica Kirk speaking on television in these interviews, to me, and I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but to me, it seems like she's suffering from religious psychosis. she just does not it something is wrong something is clearly wrong there now she could be grieving and under a lot of stress and all of these things and i have empathy for her but the the religious psychosis surrounding the this and the links to israel and it's just it's all so incredibly strange but here's something that we need to point out too trump doesn't care that rob reiner was killed, but he also didn't care that Charlie Kirk was killed.
21:42They asked him on the tarmac when he got off of a Marine one. And he was like, somebody's like, I know Charlie Kirk was like a son to you. Are you, how are you holding up? He's like, I'm good. Did you see these bulldozer here? We're about to start my ballroom. I mean, he, this is man has no empathy. And then when you think about that, a president has zero empathy. We elected a psychopath. Absolutely. And then the people that are surrounding him are worse. Yeah, they're worse. Like I'm going to be very interested for about three things. Number one, next time Caroline KKK-Levitt comes out, how does she spin this?
22:23Well, he did have Trump derangement syndrome. I'm interested to see if there's any fallout for media. Like is Fox News going to say, you know, this was inappropriate. You know, we sat up here and all we did is browbeat people that the left was responsible for this. And then, you know, even if they say President Trump did this because he was, you know, taunted by the left or something, or are they just going to glaze over it like it never happened? And then the third thing I want to know is Moses Mike. What's Moses going to say? He didn't see it. Is he even going to step into I disagree with what he said?
23:03or are they all just going to double down on it? I just, I'm interested in those things. I think number one, I don't think Fox will cover it. I think it's just never happened. Yeah. I don't think they're going to cover it. I think a little, our little grinder, he is going to say, I don't know. I haven't, I haven't had time to look at that yet. And who was the third Caroline Levitt? She's a psychopath. She'll double down on it. I mean, that's what she always does. Cause he likes, what does he say? She's got the lips like a yeah I think she'll she likes to get she likes to be the show pony and you know and and I think she gets all sorts of praise from him uh for going out there but oh my god there's just a lot of really sad things my heart goes out to all of the people in Australia a beautiful community Jewish people the immigrant community all of the people hurting there they haven't had any gun violence in I think 30 years.
24:02They're not used to this. I think about these two kids at Brown University and all the injured kids and the two kids that won't make it home for Christmas break and just how tragic and sad that is. And then I think about Rob Reiner and his wife who love their son unconditionally and they've fallen prey to addiction and addiction is such a devastating, devastating disease for families. And I just hope that we can all, you know, continue to build a community and we have to really motivate each other to motivate our friends and our communities to get out in these midterms. And this is the fight of our generation and we must meet it and meet it head on.
24:50We shouldn't be scared. We never obey in advance. These people do not have the moral high ground. These are bottom feeders and we will at some point get them out of our white house and they will cease ruling our country. I just, it has to happen. The, they do not have as much power as they say. And just as an aside, boycott CBS news and everything to do with CBS News. CBS News is nothing without us, nothing. And we need to keep beating that drum. Do not do anything to do with CBS News. We need to completely dismantle them. They have overnight, within 24 hours, turned into a huge propaganda channel that is here to shill for this fascist regime and for a war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu.
25:46And it's just complete and utter bullshit. Thank you all so much for tuning in to our independent news channel. We really appreciate you all. And we'll be back later with more news.
26:12Thank you.
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