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Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel reignited his feud with President Trump after the latter’s shockingly distasteful comments about the murder of iconic director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer.
The day after news of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer’s deaths broke, Donald Trump took to his social media app Truth Social to disparage Reiner by saying that he was “tortured and struggling,” and was killed “due to the anger he caused others through his… mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Neither of those things were true, of course, with it being quickly reported that the Reiner’s deeply troubled son Nick was “responsible” for their murders and was being held without bail.
Jimmy Kimmel slams Donald Trump for his comments about the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer
During his opening monologue on Monday night, Kimmel slammed Trump’s response as being so insensitive that he didn’t even think he was capable of saying such a thing and thought it was fake.
“It’s so hateful and vile, when I first saw it, I thought it was fake,” Kimmel said. “My wife showed it to me this morning, and I was like, even for him, that seemed like too much. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds a way to do that,” Kimmel said.
“[Trump’s] description of what happened, of course, is not at all what happened,” he added. “And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before, this rush to pin the tail on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump-friendly narrative.”
“I know from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathsome atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouth, and so we’re going to do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.”
Kimmel also had former First Lady Michelle Obama as a guest on Monday night, who revealed that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had dinner plans with Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday, December 14 — the day they were found murdered.
Michelle Obama talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.
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