Ben Shapiro condemns Trump's “vile and egregious” statement about Rob Reiner's death
Shapiro: “The president should take it down. The president should apologize. It's not good.”
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From the December 16, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): The president of the United States put out what was truly, I think, a vile and egregious statement about Rob Reiner.
And I don't care what Rob Reiner has said in the past. I mean, I do, but it was in the past, and it was bad. And, also, what the president of the United States said about Rob Reiner yesterday was quite terrible.
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That is a horrifying statement from the president of the United States. Truly, truly bad. And, again, I have a very high tolerance level after 10 years of the president tweeting random nonsense on the Internet and with great appreciation for much of his policy — that's bad, and it's bad when people say bad things. I'm sorry, like — I don't understand what what a son murdering his parents in cold blood in their home by slashing their throats has to do with Trump derangement syndrome. And the, apparently, peculiar desire of the president to refocus that issue on himself is beyond me. I don't understand it, nor do I think that it should receive any sort of justification or what what-aboutism. It's just bad. Just bad things are allowed to be bad. That is bad. The president should take it down. The president should apologize. It's not good.