Whoopi Goldberg is calling out Trump for his bashful commentary on Rob Reiner’s death.
On Monday’s (Dec 15) episode of The View, the hosts began their show addressing the killings of director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Reiner, as well as the fatal shootings at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on the first night of Hanukkah and Brown University.
“There was so much tragedy this weekend, it’s hard to process,” said Whoopi Goldberg, who Reiner directed in the 1996 drama “Ghosts of Mississippi.”
After listing some of the filmmaker’s credits, which include “The Princess Bride,” “A Few Good Men” and “When Harry Met Sally …,” Goldberg added that Reiner “was also an outspoken activist and quite a guy, quite an amazing man.”
“Have you no shame?”
Goldberg later sharply criticized Trump for his remarks on Reiner who attributed Reiner’s death to “‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’
“There’s no justification for him to have written what he wrote,” Goldberg said on Monday’s episode. “There’s no way to justify it and all those republicans who are quiet, damn you all. Damn you all.”
“I don’t know how you were raised, but this man’s family is in deep mourning and what you said and what you’ve doubled down on, makes you bad for the country,” she said. “That’s my opinion, but I see a lot of conservatives are feeling the same way and I have to say: there’s something that we all know is that when something horrific happens, we come together. We don’t delineate because someone didn’t like you. That’s not what we do.”
Goldberg later compared Trump’s respectful mourning for Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September, to the lack of respect towards Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner.
“I don’t understand the man in that White House because he talks so much about Charlie Kirk and Kerry and suddenly this is what he puts out. Have you no shame? No shame at all?” Goldberg said. She added that the former president failed to acknowledge global tragedies and American suffering, saying, “Somebody’s got to speak up for us. Our hearts are breaking… You ain’t my president, man.”
The Reiners were discovered by their 28-year-old daughter, Romy. According to TMZ, they were found with wounds consistent with a knife attack. According to People, multiple sources say the couple was killed by their son, Nick, 32, who is in police custody.