As the shock of Rob and Michele Reiner’s murder rippled through Hollywood and Washington, Trump’s Truth Social post landed like an explosion. Rather than focus on the brutal loss or the family’s devastation, he framed the killings around “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” suggesting Reiner’s outspoken criticism of him had somehow driven others to madness. For many, it was a grotesque politicization of a private nightmare.

Greene’s response marked a rare, dramatic rupture on the right. She reframed the story as a deeply human catastrophe: parents allegedly killed by a troubled son, siblings left shattered, a family battling addiction and mental illness under the harshest spotlight. Her insistence on empathy over point‑scoring echoed the tone of tributes pouring in from Barack Obama, Stephen King, and colleagues who remembered Reiner not as an enemy in a culture war, but as a father, husband, and artist whose life ended in unimaginable vio.