No, this 2023 Rob Reiner tweet about Trump isn’t real; it was fabricated

A day after director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner were found dead in their California home, a purported tweet from the Hollywood star resurfaced on social media.

“Until Trump goes to prison I will no longer be posting on Twitter,” read an image of what looks like a Jan. 20, 2023, post from Reiner on the platform that has since been renamed X. “I’ve had it with the insults and put downs.” 

It goes on to use expletives directed at “MAGA.”

Conservative influencer Laura Loomer was among the social media users to share the image online.

“Rob Reiner was a loser,” Loomer said in a Dec. 15 X post, after Reiner’s son had been arrested in connection with his parents’ death. “Naturally, his son was also a loser, and he got addicted to drugs and allegedly murdered his parents.”

Her comments followed President Donald Trump criticizing Reiner as “deranged” and linking the director’s death to his liberal political beliefs. Reiner’s son, Nick, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killings. Police have said nothing about a motive and they haven’t mentioned the director’s political ideology.

(Screenshot of Loomer’s X post.)

Rob Reiner was a vocal critic of Trump, but the tweet Loomer posted was fabricated. 

Searching the Wayback Machine’s archives, we found no posts from Reiner’s verified X account that called for Trump to go to prison in 2023. We also discovered no credible news reports about Reiner pledging to boycott Twitter until Trump went to prison, though we found multiple fact-checks of the altered post. 

Reiner did publish a post on Jan. 20, 2023, at the same time that appears in the fabricated image: 9:23 a.m. 

“Until Trump is Indicted for leading a Deadly Insurrection to Overthrow the United States Government, our Democracy will not be restored,” that tweet said.

The fake tweet isn’t new. In 2023, Reuters fact-checked claims it was real, and concluded that the image was likely created by altering Reiner’s post about the “deadly insurrection.” 

Reiner’s X account no longer exists but Reuters reported at the time that Reiner responded to the fake post, saying “this is not my account.”

We rate claims this is an authentic post from Reiner False.