President Trump posted an announcement on the demise of actor and director Rob Reiner on Monday morning, blaming his killing on “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” However Whoopi Goldberg ensured that assertion wasn’t truly learn on “The View,” given its callous nature.
To kick off the day’s Sizzling Subjects, the ABC hosts mourned Reiner, who was killed alongside his spouse of their Brentwood dwelling on Sunday. Whoopi beforehand labored with Reiner on the movie “Ghosts of Mississippi,” and remembered him as “fairly a tremendous man.” Because the dialog continued, host Sunny Hostin talked about Trump’s response, prompting Whoopi to try to shut it down.
“Don’t learn it,” she pleaded. “Don’t learn it. Simply inform them that it’s there.”
In a publish to Reality Social, the president referred to as Reiner “a tortured and struggling, however as soon as very gifted film director and comedy star,” and blamed his demise on “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” In actuality, Reiner and his spouse seem to have been killed by their very own son, who lengthy struggled with habit. Nick Reiner was taken into custody on Monday morning.
The assertion from Trump infuriated Whoopi, who additionally remembered her buddy as “a stand-up” man who “fought for the stuff that was proper.”
“[Trump] talks a lot about Charlie Kirk and caring, and instantly that is what he places out,” Whoopi stated disgustedly. “Have you ever no disgrace? No disgrace in any respect? Are you able to get any decrease? I don’t assume so.”
Host Ana Navarro was equally as disgusted by Trump, mincing no phrases in her response to his assertion.
“I’m gonna say it: rattling it, there’s an American household grieving,” Navarro stated angrily. “This can be a tragedy not only for the household, however for all who knew and liked him. And for the president of the usa to make this about him, and a strategy to assault Rob Reiner, as a result of he exercised his American proper to talk up with what he disagreed with, is shameful.”
“It’s disgraceful. And of all of the disgusting issues that Donald Trump has completed, that is proper up there,” she continued.
Navarro additionally recalled a narrative of Reiner messaging her on social media, and praised him for his activism.
“On the identical time that he was making good movie work, he was additionally deeply engaged,” she remembered. “There wasn’t a trigger he didn’t care about. He cared about immigrants, he cared about equality and justice.”
“He spoke up in protection of democracy at a time when so many within the media business, so many with a platform, are afraid to talk. He put his cash and his mouth the place his coronary heart was.”
“The View” airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
