Maria Shriver on Monday blasted President Trump over his remarks about the deaths of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, accusing the commander in chief as being the only person suffering from “TDS,” or “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“Come on, come on,” Shriver, the former first lady of California, said in a video on Instagram. “There’s only one person suffering from TDS and we know who that is. Come on. It’s a holy season, it’s a blessed season. People are hurting all over the world. Come on. We deserve so much better.”
Shriver said she was reflecting during the weekend before the first night of Hanukkah, referring to the shooting at Brown University, the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia and “after the tragic murder of my great friends Rob and Michele Reiner.”
“The entire world is hurting,” she said. “They’re shaken by what happened in Australia, shaken again by what happened at a university, and shaken here in Los Angeles. And yet we have a president who does not use this opportunity to bring anybody together. Instead [he] uses it to speak about himself, instead uses it in such a petty, divisive way.”
She added that the “president of the United States is supposed to have character, is supposed to know how to bring people together, is supposed to be a dignified human being who raises us up. And instead, we have somebody talking like he does. It makes me sick to my stomach.”
Shriver pleaded to those who work with Trump and the president’s family and urged them to give the commander in chief a “time out.”
“Explain to him the responsibility of this office,” Shriver said at the close of her video. “Explain to him the opportunity. Explain to him that we have had enough, all of us, we have had enough.”
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Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that Rob Reiner died “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.”
The president accused Reiner of being “known to have driven people crazy” over his “obsession” with Trump. Reiner, an outspoken Democrat and donor, was a frequent critic of the president since his first term. Reiner told The Guardian in 2024 that Trump was a “criminal” who “basically lies every minute of his life.”
Reiner and his wife were found dead from apparent stab wounds in their Brentwood, Calif., home, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Their son, Nick Reiner, was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with his parents’ deaths.
Trump’s words stirred outrage from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) called Trump’s comments “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
“Regardless of one’s political views, no one should be subjected to violence, let alone at the hands of their own son,” Rep. Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) wrote on the social platform X. “It’s a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in our country, period.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called Trump “a sick man” for his post. Former first lady Michelle Obama called the Reiners “the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.”
“They’re not deranged or crazed,” she said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday. “What they have always been are passionate people, in a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on. They were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about. And they cared about their family. And they cared about this country.”
