Claim:
An image authentically shows a screenshot of one of film director Rob Reiner’s tweets, in which he said, “F*** all of you MAGA a*******.”
Rating:
A rumor that circulated online in December 2025 claimed an image showed a screenshott of a real tweet from the late film director and actor Rob Reiner, in which he wrote, “F*** all of you MAGA a*******.” The image displayed the date Jan. 20, 2023, months before tech billionaire Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X.
The image of the purported tweet made the rounds after Rob Reiner and his wife, film producer Michele Singer Reiner, were stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman subsequently announced first-degree murder charges against the couple’s 32-year-old son Nick Reiner.
The full alleged tweet read, “Until Trump goes to prison I will no longer be posting on Twitter. I’ve had it with the insults and put downs. F*** all of you MAGA a*******.”
Users shared the alleged screenshot in posts and comments on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived) and X (archived).
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In short, the tweet was fake. While Reiner was an outspoken critic of Trump and his administrations, he never shared this particular message.
Reuters previously debunked the fake tweet in a 2023 report. AFP further noted Reiner himself responded to a user sharing the inauthentic post, saying, “This is not my account.”
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a tool archiving websites since the 1990s, did not contain any records of the same tweet on or around Jan. 20, 2023. The Wayback Machine did, however, feature an archived tweet showing the same date of Jan. 20, also at 23 minutes after the hour, reading, “Until Trump is Indicted for leading a Deadly Insurrection to Overthrow the United States Government, our Democracy will not be restored.”
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We did not yet identify the user who created the fake post. The date and number of minutes in the timestamp indicated that that person replaced the words in the genuine tweet with the words Reiner never wrote.
For further reading, we previously reported about a rumor claiming Nick Reiner was undergoing gender transition at the time of his parents’ deaths.
Sources
Dalton, Andrew, and Christopher Weber. “Rob Reiner’s Son Nick Appears in Court on 2 Counts of Murder in Killing of His Parents.” The Associated Press, 17 Dec. 2025, https://apnews.com/article/rob-reiner-wife-killed-a6ed355ff2f54a20497b7492a3ebd4b2.
“Fact Check: Anti-Trump Tweet Purportedly Published by Filmmaker Rob Reiner Is Fabricated.” Reuters, 23 Jan. 2023, https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/anti-trump-tweet-purportedly-published-by-filmmaker-rob-reiner-is-fabricated-idUSL1N3482FG/.
Ivanova, Irina. Twitter Is Now X. Here’s What That Means. – CBS News. 31 July 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-rebrand-x-name-change-elon-musk-what-it-means/.
Kornick, Lindsay. “Rob Reiner Warns Country Has One Year before Entering ‘full-on Autocracy’ under Trump.” Fox News, 5 Oct. 2025, https://www.foxnews.com/media/rob-reiner-warns-country-has-one-year-before-entering-full-on-autocracy-under-trump.
McCarthy, Bill. “Fake Rob Reiner Post Resurfaces after His Death.” AFP, 17 Dec. 2025, https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.88CD7ZQ.
Stone, Alex, et al. “Director Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Stabbed to Death, Son Arrested for Murder.” ABC News, 15 Dec. 2025, https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-found-dead-los-angeles-home-owned-director/story?id=128403864.
“Wayback Machine.” Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/.
