President Donald Trump's response to the stabbing death of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele has one of his typically stalwart allies aghast.

Reiner and his wife were found dead in their home on Sunday evening in an apparent double homicide. Reiner's son Nick has been arrested in connection with the incident. Trump's reaction appeared to blame Reiner's death on "Trump derangement syndrome", a term often used to describe left-wing Trump critics who make angry tirades on social media.

“I think President Trump should have said nothing," Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told CNN in the wake of the incident.

"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, 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," Trump posted on Truth Social. "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 and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.