Matt Walsh condemns Trump's comments on Rob Reiner's death as “ridiculous low-class, gross behavior. It's grotesque. It's stupid. It's wrong.”
Walsh: “There was really only one person on our side who decided to gloat, and that was Trump. Now, granted, that one person happens to be the president of the United States”
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From the December 16, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOSST): As many people on both sides have already pointed out, Trump going after Reiner hours after he and his wife were just butchered was ridiculous low-class, gross behavior. It's grotesque. It's stupid. It's wrong. It's all those things.
And, that's not difficult to say, and this is not the kind of thing that if you're a conservative, you should feel the need to, well, we got to defend it because I was — like, we all know. No one would do that. I mean, you wouldn't do it. No one would do it. I have seen a few conservatives try to defend this, but these are all conservatives who themselves, I know, would never say something like this about someone after they were just murdered by their child. You know — so you know that it's wrong.
Now the problem is that I can't take anyone on the left seriously when they wring their hands over it, if you're on the left, because these, of course, are the same people who celebrated, are still celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. These are the people with who shamelessly, with no embarrassment, celebrate anytime somebody on the right dies. I mean, if this had been a Republican to die, like, if Rob Reiner was known as a Republican, an outspoken Republican, then we know how it would go. I mean, we all know how it would go. But you notice how with Rob Reiner, a very outspoken leftist, almost everybody on the right, almost every conservative responded in a dignified, classy way. And if you were on X when this news broke, as I was, every post from somebody on the right was along the lines of, this is a horrible tragedy. Rest in peace. This is terrible. And that was it. Or talking about how they really appreciated his work. And he was a great artist. I mean, he had a run of films from what, I guess, like, into the 80s into the 90s that has not been repeated by very many directors. And so that's that's what most of the commentary was about from people on the right.
There was really only one person on our side who decided to gloat, and that was Trump. Now, granted, that one person happens to be the president of the United States, so it's not exactly someone — it's not exactly a a social media troll you can just write off, but even so. And most conservatives, even Trump's biggest fans from what I saw, were openly expressing their disappointment in his reaction.