Fox News host Greg Gutfeld on Monday stretched to defend President Donald Trump’s kiss-off to slain director Rob Reiner, saying Trump’s words should be separated from his deeds. (Watch the video below.)

Hours after Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Los Angeles home with knife wounds, the president on Truth Social attributed the politically active filmmaker and actor’s demise “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.”

“If Joe Biden had said this about anybody, I would have attacked him and said he was completely wrong. I do hope the president comes back and corrects himself,” Harold Ford Jr. said on “The Five.”

Gutfeld quickly rebutted.

“He was asked to and he didn’t, and I think the thing is, you don’t have to like the things that he says all the time,” Gutfeld said. “That is why, in my filter, Trump is always words versus deeds. I don’t have to like what he says. In fact, I could hate what he says. But I can also think, in his brain, he’s going, ‘Uh, this guy compared me to Hitler. He put a target on my back. I don’t like him.’ If it were me, I’d go like, ‘But I’m sorry he’s dead,’ but he can’t let that go? We don’t have to like it, I just look at the deeds, but I get why you’re upset.”

Ford retorted, “It’s wrong. I don’t disagree with you, but it’s wrong, and we should be able to call out right and wrong. ... That’s wrong what he did.”

“Someone tell this @greggutfeld moron, that posting a post is a DEED,” another wrote. “A deed is an intentional act. What a putz, this guy.”

The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, who has reportedly wrestled with addiction and mental illness, was arrested in connection with the killing.