The ESPN host said the president’s rhetoric after the filmmaker’s killing was “juvenile.”
The longtime sports commentator laid out his Trump takedown on his YouTube showalso invoked the Sept. 10 killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, saying people should not treat any murder as an opportunity to score points.
It’s “stuff like this that’s going to end up costing the GOP,” he warned, even though “plenty of them have come out and spoken out against the president.”, condemning violence and stressing that “there’s no place for it.” He’s just the latest famous figure to speak out against Trump’s Truth Social post, which suggested—without evidence—that Hollywood actor/producer Reiner’s killing alongside his wife, Michelle, was linked to “the anger he caused” through anti-Trump politics, which he billed “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” The couple was stabbed to death at their Los Angeles home on Sunday, and police arrested their son, Nick Reiner, 32, on suspicion of murder.RepublicansSmith pointed to what he called a baseline standard that should apply regardless of political tribe. “Prioritizing a core level of decency where somebody gets killed, somebody gets murdered, that ain’t the time to be sticking out your chest,” he said. The LAPD confirmed that Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home on Dec. 14.He said, “When Charlie Kirk got assassinated, people like myself and various others were like, ‘yo, he got killed.’” Smith believes the president’s tone derails the policy arguments he wants to litigate, such as tariffs and border control. “That’s what I would like to be discussing,” he said, before unloading on Trump’s “classness, the juvenile tendencies, the lack of statesmanship.”Smith’s outburst is part of his drift into political commentary over the past year, which has seen him
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