Podcaster Joe Rogan recently criticized President Trump for his remarks regarding the passing of Hollywood director Rob Reiner.
Joe Rogan slams President Trump
“The Rob Reiner thing is not funny, right? And that’s like the same thing. It’s the same kind of thinking. And when you see it with no empathy, that’s when it’s hard to like [him],” Rogan said of Trump during Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
His guest, comedian Shane Gillis, weighed in and said, “I wish he could apologize. I know he can’t and he won’t.”
Their comments echo other statements condemning the president’s post in following the death of Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. The Reiners’ son Nick was eventually arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Moments after news of Rob Reiner’s passing broke, Trump said he’d passed away “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
In a post on the social platform X, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a vocal Trump critic, called the president’s comments “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) noted Nick Reiner’s long history with drug abuse, calling the deaths “a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies.” Rob Reiner was a donor for the Democratic Party and frequently voiced his opposition to Trump.
