Mike Johnson ducks reporters on Trump's Reiner attack: 'I don't do ongoing commentary!'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again tried to duck reporters literally pursuing him for comment on President Donald Trump's attack on the slain Hollywood actor Rob Reiner.

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home in what authorities are treating as a double homicide. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, was booked into jail on suspicion of killing his parents.

On Truth Social, the president mocked Reiner and invoked his oft-repeated "Trump Derangement Syndrome" attack, baselessly implying that the actor's political criticism led to his own killing.

"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. 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!"

Trump later doubled down on his remarks during a press conference with reporters.

"I wasn't a fan of his at all," Trump said. "He was a deranged person."

Reporters tracked down Johnson as he rushed through Capitol Hill, including Eric Michael Garcia, Washington, D.C., bureau chief for The Independent.

Garcia asked the Speaker, "What are your thoughts about what Trump said about Rob Reiner at his press conference today?"

Johnson has earned a reputation in recent months for playing dumb on Trump's comments and expressing annoyance at being asked his thoughts on the president's remarks. And he did the same on Monday evening.

"I don't do ongoing commentary about everything that's said about everybody in government every day," said Johnson, as pursuing reporters held cameras, phones, and microphones up to record his response. "We are trying to bring down health care costs for the American people. We're in very important votes, very important issues, and that's what we're focused on."

He concluded, "I gave commentary this morning, and you all heard it."

Johnson previously called the murders "not only an unspeakable family tragedy" but a "reminder of the senseless violence and evil that is so rampant in our society."

"At this time, my thoughts go to Scripture," he said.