The Obamas were supposed to meet with director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, the night they were killed, allegedly by their son Nick Reiner, in their home in Los Angeles.
“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night — and we got the news,” Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, when host Jimmy Kimmel asked how she was coping with the news of her friends’ murders.
The former first lady said she and her husband were devastated when they learned that the legendary filmmaker and his wife, with whom they had been friends for “many, many years,” had been killed.
“Let me just say this: Unlike some people, Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you would ever want to know,” she said — appearing to allude to remarks made by President Trump, who called Rob Reiner “deranged” and “tortured and struggling” in a Truth Social post following the filmmaker’s death.
“They are not deranged or crazed. What they have always been are passionate people who — in a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on — they were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about. And they cared about their family.”
Obamas planned to meet Reiners on night they were killed, former first lady reveals
The former first lady said she and Barack Obama were friends with the late couple for many years