Confirmation on if Barack & Michelle Obama Will Attend Rob Reiner’s Funeral After the Former First Lady Addressed His ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
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The murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, has taken Hollywood by surprise, with tributes pouring in for the beloved director. Since their bodies were discovered, Reiner’s son Nick was arrested for the alleged murder of his parents.
Who will be attending the funeral? Can we expect to see familiar faces like Michelle and Barack Obama, Billy Crystal, or Larry David? For now, Rob Shuter’s Shuterstack is reporting that the funeral will be a private, carefully guarded ceremony.
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“They know how many people want to pay their respects,” one insider explained, “but this first goodbye is strictly about family and the people who were in their lives every single day.” The service will reportedly take place within days, and security will be tight with only those invited knowing the details.
Behind this decision is the fact that the family is barely hanging on. “The family is in shock,” another source said. “They cannot handle a public spectacle right now. This is about dignity, safety, and grief.”
The guest list will reportedly be kept small, but it will include big names as is expected of a couple who rubbed elbows with so many of Hollywood’s elite. Michelle and Barack Obama are expected to attend, and they will join a select number of lifelong friends, political figures, and Hollywood insiders who were part of the Reiners’ inner circle.
“Rob and Michele lived very public lives,” a source said, “but their final farewell will be intentionally shielded from the public eye.“This is not the end,” an insider clarified. “There will be a public memorial, and every major award show is planning tributes. The industry wants — and needs — to honor them.”
All of this comes after Michelle Obama responded to US President Donald Trump’s comments about Reiner. During an appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Obama shared that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, were supposed to see the Reiners on Sunday, the same day they were found dead.
But Michelle Obama didn’t just share her grief, which her husband had already expressed on social media. Instead, she seemed to single out Trump’s statement, saying, “Let me just say this, unlike some people: Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.”
She added, “They’re not deranged or crazed. 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.”
This seems a direct reponse to the fact that, on a Monday morning post on Truth Social, Trump said Reiner was “a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, 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.”
Despite sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, the President doubled down on his criticism on Monday afternoon, Dec. 15, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he wasn’t a fan of Reiner’s “at all.”
“He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.”
Michelle Obama, and most of the rest of the world, very clearly disagrees.
