Rob Reiner said he’s checking into a facility to find “peace and relaxation” after he left X for the Bluesky social media platform following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In a series of posts on Wednesday on Bluesky, the 77-year-old director accused what he called “MAGA scum” of coming over to the platform and ruining it after he and other Hollywood stars announced they had left Elon Musk’s X for the platform after Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris, the Wrap reported.
“This platform is vile, racist and evil,” Reiner wrote. “It did not take long for MAGA scum to come spread their lies.”
“I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation,” he added in a second post a short time later. “No phones, social media , no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.”
After Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, some leftist celebrities are leaving the country.@RobReiner is checking into a nuthouse. pic.twitter.com/v6ZFbDNXrp
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) November 21, 2024
Following the election, Reiner had celebrated making his new move to the platform after Trump won both the Electoral College and popular vote.
“I have decided to move here for a less hateful experience,” Reiner’s post read at the time.
The platform has seen a bump in users with many celebrities and members of the legacy media announcing their grand departure from X over Musk’s support of Trump in the election.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid recently wrote, “Hey guys, today I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. And the reason for doing it, and kissing goodbye to my 1.9 million followers over there. I hadn’t been posting for a long time – I just didn’t want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner,” as previously reported.
“But, just having it there – I was only holding onto it because, I, you know, really didn’t want someone trying to take over that name and use it for nefarious purposes,” she added. “I was a little bit worried about that.”
“And also, every so often, I was just using it to look at news that was trending, what’s happening, and I just sort of used it as an aggregator,” Reid continued. “But I just realized it’s not really worth it. Because in order to do the news aggregation and just look at all, you have to wade through a lot of dreck and a lot of, just, abuse, and a lot of just, negativity. And it’s just not worth it.”
Former CNN host Don Lemon and actress Jamie Lee Curtis also made the announcement about leaving X after the election.
Lemon claimed it’s no longer a place for “honest” debate after Trump won and wrote that he has “loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all of these years, but it’s time for me to leave the platform.”
The Hollywood actress joined him in announcing on Instagram that she had left the X platform, without giving a specific reason why she made the decision, following Trump’s victory.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. “Courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference.”