MSNBC’s Al Sharpton joined colleague Joy Reid on Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut to allege that the reason why some people still support Donald Trump is because they seek to take the country back to a time when women and minorities had no rights.
Reid led Sharpton with a completely unrelated statement. Discussing Lara Trump’s latest singing video, she declared, “I love people who have a dream. I am not knocking her having a dream. I'm saying Simon Cowell used to tell folks on American Idol this might not be your dream. That you can have a dream, but this might not be the appropriate dream for you.”
Sharpton used Lara’s singing to harken back to Donald Trump’s recent appearance at a Moms for Liberty event that Reid previously mentioned, “It might be a nightmare, and probably, though, when she looks at how their campaign is unraveling and Donald Trump, her candidate and relative, has become unhinged, you said it right. We would be demanding the 25th Amendment if Joe Biden said anything remotely as unhinged and just totally incoherent as that.
At the event, Trump claimed that schools were sending children to have gender reassignment surgeries without their parents’ knowledge. Trump overstated the matter, schools are not giving kids surgery, but some schools absolutely are keeping gender identity-related secrets, such as preferred pronouns, from parents.
As it was, Sharpton continued, “But he is going around, still high in some polls, not where he was because Kamala Harris has certainly unseated him as the front runner, but he has certainly still being able to, for other reasons, have this grip on a lot of voters that think this is the only way to bring America back to the days before women had rights and blacks and browns and other people of color had rights. And now he's imagining, hallucinating that children are being made to change their gender.”
After smearing millions of people, without evidence, of being racists and or sexists, the unserious Sharpton lamented, “We're acting like this is a serious candidate or like this is a serious threat to this country.”
Sharpton further claimed, “I think that we are seeing a man absolutely becoming other than his best self and even his best self wasn't great. But he's lost the ability to even think while he's talking. It just comes out. It’s like a baby just spitting up. And I think that because of that, even his most ardent followers have to scratch their head.”
Reid agreed, “You would think. And the fact he's even in the 40s is shocking given the stuff that he says."
Here is a transcript for the September 3 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
9/3/2024
7:08 PM ET
JOY REID: I love people who have a dream. I am not knocking her having a dream. I'm saying Simon Cowell used to tell folks on American Idol this might not be your dream. That you can have a dream, but this might not be the appropriate dream for you.
AL SHARPTON: It might be a nightmare, and probably, though, when she looks at how their campaign is unraveling—
REID: Yeah.
SHARPTON: — and Donald Trump, her candidate and relative, has become unhinged, you said it right. We would be demanding the 25th Amendment if Joe Biden said anything remotely—
REID: Yeah.
SHARPTON: — as unhinged and just totally incoherent as that. But he is going around, still high in some polls, not where he was because Kamala Harris has certainly unseated him as the front runner, but he has certainly still being able to, for other reasons, have this grip on a lot of voters that think this is the only way to bring America back to the days before women had rights and blacks and browns and other people of color had rights. And now he's imagining, hallucinating that children are being made to change their gender.
REID: In school.
SHARPTON: In school, with the instruction of their teachers. We're acting like this is a serious candidate.
REID: Right.
SHARPTON: Or like this is a serious threat to this country. I think that we are seeing a man absolutely becoming other than his best self and even his best self wasn't great. But he's lost the ability to even think while he's talking. It just comes out.
REID: Yeah.
SHARPTON: It's like a baby just spitting up. And I think that because of that, even his most ardent followers have to scratch their head.
REID: You would think. And the fact he's even in the 40s is shocking given the stuff that he says.
