Michelle Obama Is Disgusted by Trump’s Reiners Post
On Monday night, Michelle Obama appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, one day after news broke that her close friends, Rob and Michele Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home, while their 32-year-old son, Nick, was arrested and booked for murder. “I know you and your husband were friends with Rob and Michele,” Kimmel told Obama. “I’m so sorry for your loss.” Obama shared that she and Barack had been friends with the couple for “many, many years,” adding that “we were supposed to be seeing them” the night of their deaths.
Michelle Obama revealed on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' that she and Barack Obama had plans with Rob and Michele Reiner Sunday night. pic.twitter.com/46skLdCfGr
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Obama also took some time to set some things straight about the profoundly vile Truth Social post President Trump wrote in the wake of the Reiners’ deaths, which he attempted to blame on their liberal politics (in his words, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”). “Let me just say this,” Obama said. “Unlike some people, Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.” Seemingly quoting Trump’s post without naming him explicitly, she added, “They are not deranged or crazed.”
“What they have always been are passionate people who — in a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on — were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about,” Obama continued. “And they cared about their family, and they cared about this country. And they cared about fairness and equity. And that is the truth.”
Obama is not the only person outraged by Trump’s response to the Reiners’ deaths. Whoopi Goldberg also condemned his post about the Reiners during Monday’s episode of The View, where she said she does not “understand the man in that White House.” “Because he talks so much about Charlie Kirk and caring, and suddenly this is what he puts out?” she told the audience. “Have you no shame? No shame at all? Can you get any lower? I don’t think so.”
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