‘The View’s Whoopi Goldberg sounds off on Trump for making Rob Reiner’s “horrific” murder about himself: “Have you no shame?”
Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, and the rest of the co-hosts on The View are firing back at President Donald Trump for an insensitive message he posted about the alleged murder of beloved director Rob Reiner.
In a shocking Truth Social post, Trump claimed that Reiner, “a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star,” passed away alongside his wife “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Hollywood home on Sunday (Dec. 14). Multiple sources told People that their son, Nick, allegedly killed them, and is now being held in custody on a $4 million bail.
When Sunny Hostin brought up Trump’s message on The View this morning, Goldberg—who worked with Reiner on Ghosts of Mississippi—told her, “Don’t read it.”
“I don’t know how to process this,” Goldberg said, also referring to the shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University over the weekend. “Each thing, in its own body, is horrific. I don’t even have words. I don’t know what to say.”
Speaking to Trump’s post about Reiner, Navarro sounded off on the POTUS.
“Dammit, there’s an American family grieving,” she fumed. “This is a tragedy, not just for the family, but for all who knew and loved him. 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 with what he disagreed with, is shameful, it’s disgraceful, and out of all the disgusting things Donald Trump has done, this is right up there.”
Goldberg, for her part, couldn’t understand why Trump—who has lauded the free speech ideology that late conservative activist Charlie Kirk spread before his own murder in September—would make Reiner’s death about politics.
“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,” Goldberg said. “Have you no shame? No shame at all? Can you get any lower? I don’t think so. What do you have to say about what’s happened around the world? Where are our voices as Americans? Somebody’s gotta speak up for us.”
“Our hearts are breaking through all of this. Through Rob. Through what’s happened at Bondi Beach, what happened at Brown. And you don’t find the time to say, as Americans, we hate what’s happening?” she continued. “You ain’t my president, man.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
