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Heartfelt and emotional tributes keep pouring

in over the tragic deaths of Rob and Michelle

Reiner. But the empathy stops at the White House.

Here's what you-know-who is responding to the

backlash over his shameful post yesterday. Take

a look. Mr. President, a number of Republicans

have denounced your statement on Truth 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. You

know, the Russia hoax. 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. You know who is

bad for the country?

You.

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 make you bad

for the country. Make you very bad for the country.

But that's just... that's my opinion, but I

see a lot of conservatives are feeling the same

way. And I have to say, you know, there's something

that... that we all know. Is that when something

horrific happens, we come together. We don't...

we don't delineate because somebody didn't like...

That's not what you do. Or make it about him.

It's about all of a sudden everything's always

about him. Yeah. It's nutty though. I mean it's...

As I said, high profile conservatives are actually

calling out his comments as also bad for the

country. Watch. I think President Trump should

have said nothing. Um, I think when the President

says these sorts of things, it detracts from

his policy achievements and his agenda. For

the President of the United States to take this

family tragedy in which both Reiner and his

wife were killed, and say that it's because

of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I thought was

well beneath him and beneath the office, and

I think it would have been better if the President

had made no comment. When people say horrible

things about Rob right now, I find it quite

frankly infuriating and distasteful. That was

James Woods. That was James Woods. I mean that's

really the reaction people ought to have. Yeah.

Yeah. Online I noticed that there's a lot of

uh, oh well when Charlie Kirk died, et cetera,

there was a lot of people saying nasty stuff.

But that wasn't the President of the United

States. And it was not Rob Reiner himself. Cause

watch the tape of Rob Reiner. Watch that. Absolute

horror. Uh, and I unfortunately saw the video

of it. And it's uh, it's... it's beyond belief

what happened to him. And uh, that should never

happen to anybody. I don't care what your political

beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's not

a solution uh to uh to solving problems. That's

called grace. That is grace. And the guy in

the White House, he has... he has none of the

ability to lead, to set a tone for empathy,

for sympathy. I don't know what he's doing there.

And Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, all his policies...

what policies?

What has he done that's been constructive?

I'd like to know. I think it's so disappointing.

Um, and we touched on it a little bit yesterday

is that, you know, at a time when you have um

the nation grieving about a school shooting

at Brown University, when you have the nation

grieving about an antisemitic tragedy in one

of our allied countries, when you have um a

nation grieving about a Hollywood icon being

killed, what you expect from the President of

the United States is to be the consoler in chief.

That's his job. That is the assignment. And

he never understands the assignment. I don't

think he is capable because of the lack of moral

compass that I believe he has. And it just reminds

me immediately about who I believe is the best

president of my lifetime, President Barack Obama.

He understood the assignment. He understood

how to console a nation, how to bring a nation

uh together. I remember when he heard about

um the Sandy Hook shooting, he was in the Oval

Office. This is his first reaction which was

to close his eyes. You could see that he felt

the grief of those families and of this country.

And I was also in South Carolina when he gave

the eulogy for the nine people that were murdered

inside of a church and he sang Amazing Grace.

And I think we have that. Amazing grace,

how sweet the sound. And I can't begin to tell

you what it felt like in that room to have a

leader like that sharing in our grief as a country.

And I don't think this president is even capable.

Incapable. Of it. Incapable. Well and I think...

I think it's important that there has been some

pushback on the right. It's not as much as I'd

want to see but I do want to shout those out

who've been powerful. Thomas Massie who we've

talked about put out a beautiful statement.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, listen, she's... she

seems to have found the light on some of these

issues. She did a 180. My... my friend... my

friend David Urban who was a Trump advisor just

definitively, no apologies, called it out. And

you need that. I don't know how much lower you

can go than after a family was murdered. And

we're still letting the facts play out. The

son is in custody but that aspect of the story

hit me hard cause I've talked a lot about my

sister was an addict for over a decade. Addiction

has touched two-thirds of American families.

It is something that is relatable because they

can get better and then they can get sick again.

And as a parent, as a loved one, as a sibling,

there is nothing you want more for that child

to get better. And I can't speak, I didn't know

the Reiners, but I imagine if they were here

today they would care the most about they just

want their son to get better. My information

on that is that the Reiners did everything possible.

You must know this Whoopi. That he... that kid

was in and out of rehab and what have you. They

did everything. They loved their son. They spent

millions of dollars on it. And sometimes you

just can't fix it. Well and I think the... the

part here that bothers me is it doesn't even

matter that uh Donald Trump is the president.

It's... it's what it reflects of humanity. When...

when political identity trumps moral identity

and a common ground of acceptance. And we saw

this a lot with Charlie Kirk. We saw it with

Lewis... uh or Luigi Mangione and the man he

murdered. We're seeing it... When there's a

mixed reaction to someone tragically being killed,

it doesn't matter if you knew the person, who

the person is. It's... it's just a... a time

we're living in where that's the bigger shock

to me is that there's any discrepancy in response

that isn't "Oh my god, my heart breaks for this

family and for these people." For years to come

and the generations ahead of us, when we're

all dead, this stuff is going to be in the Smithsonian

for years. Everybody's going to know what he

said. All of these tweets should be in the...

in the... Just let's... his legacy is in the

dump... dumpster. He doesn't care though. He

doesn't care. Sorry, uh, Mangione was accused

of murder. Right. Okay. You go with what you...

you're thinking. Look. There is... there is

no justification for him to have written what

he wrote. There's no way to justify it. And

all of those Republicans who are quiet, damn

you all. Damn you all. Like Johnson. Like what's

his name, Johnson.