December 16, 2025 • 11 mins
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The horrific death of Rob Reiner and his wife should have been a moment for unity, reflection, and basic human decency. Instead, it became something else entirely — a reminder of how far our political culture has fallen, and how easily anger is weaponized for applause.
In this episode, we break down:
• Why the President’s statement crossed a line no leader should cross
• How tragedy was turned into political red meat
• Why true leadership demands restraint — especially in moments of grief
• How faith, forgiveness, and humility are being replaced by outrage and cruelty
• Why no political disagreement justifies dehumanizing the dead
And how this was a profound missed opportunity to bring a fractured country together!
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i
WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:
https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
The horrific death of Rob Reiner and his wife should have been a moment for unity, reflection, and basic human decency. Instead, it became something else entirely — a reminder of how far our political culture has fallen, and how easily anger is weaponized for applause.
In this episode, we break down:
• Why the President’s statement crossed a line no leader should cross
• How tragedy was turned into political red meat
• Why true leadership demands restraint — especially in moments of grief
• How faith, forgiveness, and humility are being replaced by outrage and cruelty
• Why no political disagreement justifies dehumanizing the dead
And how this was a profound missed opportunity to bring a fractured country together!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Rob Reiner and reconciliation. I am I'm gonna take the
opportunity to use some of the things that transpired yesterday
in the wake of the awful death of Rob Reiner
and his wife at the hands of his son, who
(00:39):
obviously had issues for a long period of time, and
I'm going to try to do something with this today.
The President of the United States came out yesterday and
put out a tweet, and I'm going to be on
My initial reaction was just discussed anger. I mean, I
(01:01):
was just this is vile. Who does this. I'm gonna
read it to you in case you haven't seen it.
Very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Inery,
tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and
comedy star, passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly
due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
(01:26):
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. He
was known to have driven people crazy by his raging
obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals
(01:51):
and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of
America upon us perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle
rest in peace. Okay, I again, I really got taken
back by that yesterday. I really did. And again it
(02:18):
was kind of funny as well to watch at first
all of all of Trump's sycophants, all of his online influencers,
putting out tweet to see see how well behaved we
are on the right. Remember all those crazy people on
the left that at checked Charlie Kirk And after Trump
(02:38):
put his statement out, all of a sudden, these same
people changed their mind. Oh yes, Rob Reiner, open game.
It's okay for the president to come out and speak
like this. It's okay because you know, he said that
Trump was involved with the Russia collusion. And I'm it.
(03:04):
It really make me sad, and it should make all
of us sad. At this point in time, it's Christmas,
Christmas season and the man that we're celebrating, the birth
(03:26):
of the man that was selling the greatest in my opinion, obviously,
person I ever lived kind of carnate here when he
was tortured to death, tortured to death and killed on
a cross, he prayed God forgave everyone who is doing
(03:49):
this to him and you people, you can't get your
arms around that. You can understand that, you know well,
when you when you pray for certain things, when you
ask for certain things tellings, God gives them to you
(04:16):
directly in many respects. You know, it's been kind of
talked about in a myriad of different ways, almost like
he gives you an opportunity and an actual opportunity to
actually make that change on your own. You're you're presented
with various different things. The President of the United States
(04:37):
was giving a tremendous opportunity to bring the country, try
to bring the country together. Obviously, Rob Reiner is a
big liberal, big liberal. He you know, could have tried
to mend fences, but the President of the United State
(05:00):
chose to chose anger, chose hatred instead, and then in
his press conference later on in the day, yesterday. Yeah,
he didn't do anything great for the kun. He wasn't
good for the country. He wasn't good for the country.
All due respect, do you check out this man's body
(05:21):
of work? I mean, I referenced him last week from
Spinal Tap. I mean, could you want to go through
the films that he was either in involved with, directed,
acted in television shows you name it, from All in
the Family to when Harry met Sally spinal Tap stand
(05:43):
by me. I would go on and on and on
down the list. Unbelievable, unbelievable pieces of And again you're
gonna say something, I mean, you can't take that away
from him him. Here's a guy that he was out
(06:04):
in front with his son's problems with substance abuse, tried
to help him, did a movie about it, to be
killed by his own kid, and you're talking about this
like it's Trump derangement syndrome. So yeah, I was very
very angry at first, because again, this is a president
(06:28):
where he had an opportunity. God gave him an opportunity,
and he rather than just to serve God because you
think God wanted him to put this statement out. Did
you really believe that he chose instead, rather than to
serve God, he chose to serve himself. Trump, in the
calculated manner that that he is, said, you know what,
(06:51):
you know the I'm gonna I'm gonna throw up some
more red meat. I'm gonna throw some more red meat
to my base. You know what I'm thinking of? Right now,
they're gonna scene in Romancing the Stone where you got
the crocodiles that are sitting down there in the pit,
and they're throwing the meat all the time. Take a
look at him, snappers, Let's throw some more read the
(07:13):
more red meat to the mega crown. Right. I'm gonna
ask you people that think that this is okay, what
if your kid, what if your child acted in this manner?
(07:35):
You'd approve of that, you're okay with that? I actually
I prayed for Trump, I said, and I reflected, I
get up a wee hours in the morning this morning
(07:56):
and trying to get my arms around that this is
a guy, this is a guy that needs everyone's prayers
at this point in time. You know what. It reminded
me of the Grinch. The Grinch. Yeah, remember in the
towards the end of The Grinch, And again I used
(08:19):
doctor Seuss from time to time and my columns and whatnot.
Towards the end, it's like well and Whoville they say
that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.
You gotta we got to pray for for Donald Trump
and his heart because it's cold. It's it's brutally cold.
(08:46):
I agree with the statements that Rob Reiner made, and
some things he put out, without a doubt were over
the top. But even again, people in Hollywood that are
on the right that James Woods of the world are like,
he was a wonderful guy. Friends with him. People that
(09:07):
people on the right who had met with them in
green rooms before, they went on, what a wonderful and
warm guy all this? I mean, why why? And you
people that are around Trump, you don't call him out
(09:28):
on something like this. You don't, I mean, and again
you got to think about maybe just you know how
lonely Donald Trump is, how lone this man must be,
that he has no one in his circle that's going
to stand up to him and put him in his
(09:51):
place and say, man, you're wrong. Here, this is wrong. Here,
Here is an opportunity where we have a actured country.
You can bring them together, but you know what you're
gonna choose. You're gonna choose to inflame the situation, and
it just goes out to both people on the left
and right. I mean that we have to do better,
(10:12):
we have to bet I was disgusted with some of
the crap that came out from the left when of course,
but again you feel sorry for these people because how
cold their heart must be to say something like that,
to act in such a way. Anyway, they got a
(10:36):
mercy and the rhiners souls and the family and all
of the people that he was close with that are
are grieving at this point in time. That's that's that's all.
Quite frankly, this should be about Watchdog and Wall Street
(11:01):
dot Com.
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Rob Reiner and reconciliation. I am I'm gonna take the
opportunity to use some of the things that transpired yesterday
in the wake of the awful death of Rob Reiner
and his wife at the hands of his son, who
(00:39):
obviously had issues for a long period of time, and
I'm going to try to do something with this today.
The President of the United States came out yesterday and
put out a tweet, and I'm going to be on
My initial reaction was just discussed anger. I mean, I
(01:01):
was just this is vile. Who does this. I'm gonna
read it to you in case you haven't seen it.
Very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Inery,
tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and
comedy star, passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly
due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
(01:26):
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. He
was known to have driven people crazy by his raging
obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals
(01:51):
and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of
America upon us perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle
rest in peace. Okay, I again, I really got taken
back by that yesterday. I really did. And again it
(02:18):
was kind of funny as well to watch at first
all of all of Trump's sycophants, all of his online influencers,
putting out tweet to see see how well behaved we
are on the right. Remember all those crazy people on
the left that at checked Charlie Kirk And after Trump
(02:38):
put his statement out, all of a sudden, these same
people changed their mind. Oh yes, Rob Reiner, open game.
It's okay for the president to come out and speak
like this. It's okay because you know, he said that
Trump was involved with the Russia collusion. And I'm it.
(03:04):
It really make me sad, and it should make all
of us sad. At this point in time, it's Christmas,
Christmas season and the man that we're celebrating, the birth
(03:26):
of the man that was selling the greatest in my opinion, obviously,
person I ever lived kind of carnate here when he
was tortured to death, tortured to death and killed on
a cross, he prayed God forgave everyone who is doing
(03:49):
this to him and you people, you can't get your
arms around that. You can understand that, you know well,
when you when you pray for certain things, when you
ask for certain things tellings, God gives them to you
(04:16):
directly in many respects. You know, it's been kind of
talked about in a myriad of different ways, almost like
he gives you an opportunity and an actual opportunity to
actually make that change on your own. You're you're presented
with various different things. The President of the United States
(04:37):
was giving a tremendous opportunity to bring the country, try
to bring the country together. Obviously, Rob Reiner is a
big liberal, big liberal. He you know, could have tried
to mend fences, but the President of the United State
(05:00):
chose to chose anger, chose hatred instead, and then in
his press conference later on in the day, yesterday. Yeah,
he didn't do anything great for the kun. He wasn't
good for the country. He wasn't good for the country.
All due respect, do you check out this man's body
(05:21):
of work? I mean, I referenced him last week from
Spinal Tap. I mean, could you want to go through
the films that he was either in involved with, directed,
acted in television shows you name it, from All in
the Family to when Harry met Sally spinal Tap stand
(05:43):
by me. I would go on and on and on
down the list. Unbelievable, unbelievable pieces of And again you're
gonna say something, I mean, you can't take that away
from him him. Here's a guy that he was out
(06:04):
in front with his son's problems with substance abuse, tried
to help him, did a movie about it, to be
killed by his own kid, and you're talking about this
like it's Trump derangement syndrome. So yeah, I was very
very angry at first, because again, this is a president
(06:28):
where he had an opportunity. God gave him an opportunity,
and he rather than just to serve God because you
think God wanted him to put this statement out. Did
you really believe that he chose instead, rather than to
serve God, he chose to serve himself. Trump, in the
calculated manner that that he is, said, you know what,
(06:51):
you know the I'm gonna I'm gonna throw up some
more red meat. I'm gonna throw some more red meat
to my base. You know what I'm thinking of? Right now,
they're gonna scene in Romancing the Stone where you got
the crocodiles that are sitting down there in the pit,
and they're throwing the meat all the time. Take a
look at him, snappers, Let's throw some more read the
(07:13):
more red meat to the mega crown. Right. I'm gonna
ask you people that think that this is okay, what
if your kid, what if your child acted in this manner?
(07:35):
You'd approve of that, you're okay with that? I actually
I prayed for Trump, I said, and I reflected, I
get up a wee hours in the morning this morning
(07:56):
and trying to get my arms around that this is
a guy, this is a guy that needs everyone's prayers
at this point in time. You know what. It reminded
me of the Grinch. The Grinch. Yeah, remember in the
towards the end of The Grinch, And again I used
(08:19):
doctor Seuss from time to time and my columns and whatnot.
Towards the end, it's like well and Whoville they say
that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.
You gotta we got to pray for for Donald Trump
and his heart because it's cold. It's it's brutally cold.
(08:46):
I agree with the statements that Rob Reiner made, and
some things he put out, without a doubt were over
the top. But even again, people in Hollywood that are
on the right that James Woods of the world are like,
he was a wonderful guy. Friends with him. People that
(09:07):
people on the right who had met with them in
green rooms before, they went on, what a wonderful and
warm guy all this? I mean, why why? And you
people that are around Trump, you don't call him out
(09:28):
on something like this. You don't, I mean, and again
you got to think about maybe just you know how
lonely Donald Trump is, how lone this man must be,
that he has no one in his circle that's going
to stand up to him and put him in his
(09:51):
place and say, man, you're wrong. Here, this is wrong. Here,
Here is an opportunity where we have a actured country.
You can bring them together, but you know what you're
gonna choose. You're gonna choose to inflame the situation, and
it just goes out to both people on the left
and right. I mean that we have to do better,
(10:12):
we have to bet I was disgusted with some of
the crap that came out from the left when of course,
but again you feel sorry for these people because how
cold their heart must be to say something like that,
to act in such a way. Anyway, they got a
(10:36):
mercy and the rhiners souls and the family and all
of the people that he was close with that are
are grieving at this point in time. That's that's that's all.
Quite frankly, this should be about Watchdog and Wall Street
(11:01):
dot Com.
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