Dec. 16, 2025

Trump Hears About Rob Reiner Murder, Makes It About Himself

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fter a shocking double murder, President Trump went straight to Truth Social to attack the dead man, diagnosing Rob Reiner with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” instead of offering condolences. Even Trump allies recoiled, calling the post indecent. Then, as if that wasn’t enough for one day, Trump filed a ten billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC over a January sixth documentary that never aired in the U.S., insisting his words that day were “beautiful.” From blaming a murder victim to suing a foreign broadcaster in Florida, Trump once again proved that no story is too tragic or too international to bend back toward himself.

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Callaroga shark media from Washington, d C. Where sometimes you

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should just say nothing. This is ballad and sometimes there's

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just nothing to say about some people. Let's hit this.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield. And after two people were murdered, President

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Trump decided the real story was about him. Trump posted

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on truth Social that Rob Reiner's death was reportedly due

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to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding

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and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as

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Trump derangement syndrome. Yes, a man was murdered, but Trump

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diagnosed the victim with being too obsessed with Donald Trump.

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When reporters asked if he stood by those comments, Trump

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doubled down. Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all.

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He was a deranged person. I thought he was very

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bad for our country. The man is dead, Donald. The

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backlash was immediate and came from Trump's own allies. Jenna Ellis,

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Trump's former lawyer, wrote, this is not the appropriate response.

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This is a horrible example from Trump and should be

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condemned by everyone with any decency. Even Marjorie Taylor Green said,

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this is a family tragedy, not about politics. When you've

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lost Marjorie Taylor Green on the civility question, You've really

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gone somewhere. Special Representative Thomas Massey pointed out the hypocrisy.

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After Charlie Kirk's assassination, Conservatives demanded civility and condemned anyone

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who spoke ill of the dead. Now Trump's attacking a

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murder victim before the body's cold. Sage Steele, a Trump

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ally called it so disappointing and said it's comments like

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this that take away from the countless great things Trump

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does for America, although at this point we're running out

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of great things to subtract from. There's zero indication politics

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had anything to do with this tragedy. But Trump saw

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a Hollywood director who criticized him die and somehow made

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himself the victim. Senator Chuck Schumer summed it up, Trump

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knows no shame. But Trump wasn't done with Monday. He

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also filed a thirty three page lawsuit seeking ten billion

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dollars from the BBC for a documentary they aired before

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the election. Ten billion dollars from the British Broadcasting Corporation,

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Trump suing them in Florida, even though the deadline to

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sue in British courts expired over a year ago. The

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lawsuit claims the BBC defamed him by editing his January

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sixth speech in a way that was false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory,

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and malicious. Trump told reporters in the Oval office, they

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actually put terrible words in my mouth, didn't say, and

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their beautiful words that I said, right, they're beautiful words

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talking about patriotism and all of the good things that

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I said, beautiful words about January sixth, the day his

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supporters stormed the Capitol, Trump called his own words beautiful

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three times and two sentences, which is either confidence or

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a vocabulary issue. The BBC documentary spliced together quotes from

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Trump's speech that were delivered almost an hour apart, cutting

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out the part where Trump said he wanted supporters to

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demonstrate peacefully. The BBC apologized last month and called it

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an error of judgment. Their top executive and head of

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news both resigned, but apparently that wasn't enough. Trump wants

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ten billion dollars. That's roughly the entire annual budget of

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the one hundred and three year old BBC, which is

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funded by a license fee of one hundred and seventy

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four pounds paid by British households. Legal experts are skeptical

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about the case since the documentary never aired in the

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United States. Trump's lawsuit argues Americans could watch it on BritBox,

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a streaming service. So Trump is suing a British broadcaster

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in Florida for a show that aired in Britain, claiming

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Americans might have watched it if they subscribed to a

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specific streaming platform. This is either four dimensional legal chess

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or just regular chess where someone's making up the rules

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as they go. The Trump administration says demolition of the

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White House East Wing must continue for classified national security

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reasons that they'll only explain to a judge in private.

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A preservation group is suing to stop the three hundred

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million dollar ballroom project, arguing no president can legally tear

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down parts of the White House without review or public comment.

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The Secret Service claims even a temporary construction pause would

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hamper their protective mission. While final ballroom plans remain unfinalized

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despite ongoing demolition. Above ground construction won't start until April

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twenty twenty six at the earliest, but the administration insists

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the below ground work is too critical to stop and

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too classified to explain. So the Trump administration is defending

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its White House ballroom construction project in court, and their

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main argument is essentially, trust us. It's for national security,

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but we can't tell you why. The National Trust for

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Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit to halt the project, and

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the government's response is a thirty six page document that

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boils down to we have very important secret reasons and

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will whisper them to the judge when nobody is looking.

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The Secret Service submitted a declaration saying more work is

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needed to meet their safety and security requirements. What are

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those requirements classified? Why are they classified? Also classified? Can

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you give us any details? Sure in a private meeting

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with the judge where the plaintiffs aren't allowed. Nothing suspicious

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about that at all. Here's what we do know. Trump

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had the East Wing demolished in October to make room

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for an estimated three hundred million dollars ninety thousand square

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foot ballroom that can hold about one thousand people. That's

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roughly twice the size of the current White House. And yes,

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the East Wing sat atop an emergency operations bunker for

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the president. But apparently we needed that space for a

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really big party room instead. The administration's filing reveals that

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final plans for the ballroom haven't even been finalized yet,

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despite the fact that they're actively tearing things apart. Below

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groundwork continues. Foundations are set to begin in January, and

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above ground construction won't start until April twenty twenty six

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at the earliest, so they're demolishing first and asking questions never.

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The National Trust's lawsuit makes a pretty straightforward point. No

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president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the

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White House without any review whatsoever. They argue the plans

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should have been submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission

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the Commission of Fine Arts in Congress before any action

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was taken. The Trust even wrote to these entities in October,

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after demolition began. They received exactly zero responses. The administration's

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defense is that the president has the authority to modify

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the White House, citing the extensive history of changes over

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the past two hundred years. They also claim the demolition

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concerns are moot because you can't undemolish a building, which

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is technically true but fels like saying you can't unmurder someone.

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The Secret Service declaration insists that even a temporary halt

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to construction would hamper their ability to fulfill their protective mission. Again,

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no specifics on how a construction pause would endanger the president,

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but surely it's completely unrelated to Trump wanting his ballroom

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finished before his term ends. Portions of today's show were

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