The Chuck ToddCast
Bonus Episode: Trump’s Response To Rob Reiner’s Murder Was DESPICABLE
15 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What tragic event involving Rob Reiner is discussed at the start?
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Chapter 2: How does Trump respond to Rob Reiner's murder?
Well, I'm coming to you after the news I taped previously. I taped the episode on Sunday evening, but before we found out about Rob Reiner.
Chapter 3: What does Trump's lack of empathy reveal about his character?
And I'll be honest, when I think about the introduction to the episode earlier for my podcast, and it was focused more of what happened in Australia, you know, by the time I woke up Monday morning, it was felt like a totality of just grief, you know, had sort of been piled on top of us. Whether
Chapter 4: Why is Rob Reiner's artistic legacy significant?
You're thinking about what happened at Brown University, what happened in Australia, and then just the gruesome attack on Rob Reiner and his wife and the murder of those two.
Chapter 5: How does Trump contribute to polarization in America?
It was just collectively, you know, just you wake up in sort of a funk feeling just really...
Chapter 6: Why is Trump's response considered classless and embarrassing?
um just i can't you know look look everybody um processes these things differently i don't want to assume other people are processing but you're just feeling really just down you know um i happen to actually my wife and i just watched spinal tap 2 uh friday evening it was you know There was we were looking for something to watch.
Chapter 7: What implications does Trump's legacy have for future leadership?
We finished Pluribus and we weren't ready to fall asleep. We had seen the new sort of that. And I was like, Oh, I've been meaning to take a look. And I think this the second spinal tap finally started streaming this weekend. So it was getting certainly promoted on my algorithm because I am a Gen Xer, right?
Chapter 8: What does Trump's behavior indicate about his mental state?
I am of I am the target audience for this. And in fact, we my wife and I were remarking just, you know, not all of these sort of throwback sequels work right. You've heard me say naked gun didn't work, but this one worked. And it was sort of it was because Reiner knew, you know, just understood whatever it was. He just sort of he understood what Spinal Tap was trying to be, what they were.
And it was just sort of. It was just well done. Not all those sequels are easy to pull off. Sometimes they're just simply money grabs. This one didn't. It felt sure there was a there was there was an opportunity, but but it felt like it was well constructed, well thought out and had the right right amount of throwback and look forward. And then I saw what the president said about. Rob Reiner.
And it was so disgusting. It was so awful. It was so classless. And I know we're all exhausted from being exhausted by him, right? But at the end of the day, whether we like it or not, the President of the United States
is our representative is our collective representative and you know i certainly go in the voting booth thinking about that you know is this person the best representative of america you know at a moment when you need somebody to put the country first at a moment when you need somebody to be empathetic does this person have that skill set look we've had presidents that have been better at it than others some are really good at it they just have that
That, you know, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, all three of them always felt like, you know, they met moments when they when it needed to be done. Ronald Reagan would meet moments when he'd done H.W. Bush. Actually, he had a harder times at times. It maybe explains why he didn't get a second term. Right. Bill Clinton just had had that extra factor to it.
But but in general, we've always had a president that knew how to put, you know, sort of not put them insert themselves into everything. And, you know, just the comment himself, the idea that the president United States implied that Rob Reiner's political disagreements with Donald Trump are what got him murdered. It's essentially what he's saying. Can you just.
pure and utter insanity to think that. That's a level of sick narcissism. And I'm not going to sit here and say I'm an expert at trying to diagnose people. But my God, how narcissistic do you have to be to assume everything is about you, that everything is about this moment about you? And you have to insert, you know, there's the cliche, you know, the famous quote about Teddy Roosevelt.
He wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. I mean, this is a form of that narcissism. mental illness on display for all of us to see. But you know, there are times, you know, on one hand, look, I think we're all used to it by now. Look, I believe the reason he didn't win reelection in 2020 is his inability to have empathy during COVID, right?
He just was not the person we wanted to deal with that moment. He was not handling it well. He was not understanding it. He was not getting it. And it was just like, you know, we need some we need some restoration of normality. And and Biden was seen as sort of a comfortable figure, a previous vice president. He sort of he knows that he understands the rules of the road.
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