Jimmy Kimmel Rips Donald Trump Over Rob Reiner Post He Calls Vile

Jimmy Kimmel did not ease into his monologue. He opened his show by torching Donald Trump for a social post about Rob Reiner that, frankly, is one of the bleaker things to trend this week.

What set Kimmel off

Trump posted about the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, and used the moment to push a favorite label of his: 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' In short, he suggested their deaths tie back to that. The internet lit up immediately, because of course it did.

'It is so hateful and vile. When I first saw it, I thought it was fake,' Kimmel told his audience, saying his wife showed him the post that morning. 'Even for him, that seemed like too much.'

Then it got worse

According to Kimmel, Trump didn't just leave it there. Hours later, during an Oval Office press appearance, he doubled down. He said he wasn't a fan of Reiner and called him 'a deranged person.' Kimmel's response on air was not subtle: 'That corroded brain is in charge of our lives.'

Kimmel made it personal

Kimmel said he knew Reiner and that, based on those interactions, Reiner would have wanted people to hold this kind of rhetoric to the fire. He put it in pretty stark terms, urging continued pushback against what he called the sick, irresponsible stuff coming out of Trump's mouth.

The bottom line

This is one of those weird, pretty grim moments where entertainment TV crosses into politics because the story just leaves the lane on its own. Kimmel used his first minutes to call the post out, spelled out exactly why he found it offensive, and ended by making it clear he plans to keep pressing Trump on it. Not subtle. Not meant to be.