MSNBC’s Joy Reid perhaps may never come to terms with President-elect Trump’s November victory. Tuesday night’s episode of The ReidOut included the host hilariously downplaying Trump’s entire campaign while ridiculing the various CEOs and Republican politicians who had voiced their support for Trump.
Reid began the segment with the outrageous claim that Trump only ran for president “to make all of his legal problems–poof!–go away.” She gleefully added that he was unsuccessful in his bid to Judge Juan Merchan regarding the guilty conviction from his hush money trial. “Trump will have to live with the infamy of being the first convicted felon president,” Reid cackled.
The MSNBC host continued to reference the recent $15 million settlement in Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News, arguing that he felt “emboldened” by various CEOs “willing to comply in advance.” She supported her claim by pointing to LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong who reportedly “requested that the newspaper’s editorial board outright take a break from writing about Trump, and balance any critical editorials or articles with positive ones.”
Reid evidently interpreted moves such as this as an attempt to placate a “toddler” Trump, insisting that such efforts would be fruitless since “his ego is too fragile and his needs are endless”:
Trump is that toddler, and he wants nothing short of complete obedience and constant adulation, for everyone to say they love him and praise him and tell him he’s the best president ever! And it’ll never be obsequious enough or vigorous enough. He’ll always want more, and punish and humiliate even those who do comply.
Her proof? Apparently, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and “all the black Republicans who went to the mat for Trump during the campaign” were “snubbed” by the president-elect because “he will always reward weakness with more humiliation.”
It’s no surprise that yet again the short-sighted Reid failed to do her own research into the matter. In reality, Rubio had been nominated by Trump as his pick for secretary of state.
As always, Reid couldn’t help but succumb to her blind hatred of Trump despite the continued insistence by her MSNBC colleagues of the network’s commitment to accuracy and the truth.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
12/17/2024
07:21:03 PM EST
JOY REID: Donald Trump ran for president for one reason and one reason only: to make all of his legal problems–poof!–go away. And for the most part, he was successful, with one exception. Yesterday, the New York judge, who presided over Trump’s hush money trial, denied his bid to toss out his guilty verdict, meaning Trump will have to live with the infamy of being the first convicted felon president. And yes, MAGA, you are still a convicted felon before you are sentenced. That’s how it works.
But that isn’t stopping Trump from trying to hit the delete button on every other bad headline ever printed about him, going so far as to sue Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, saying he’s seeking “accountability for brazen election interference” over a November poll that showed Kamala Harris up three percent in Iowa. Never mind the fact that Trump won the election and won the state of Iowa by double digits. He’s clearly feeling emboldened by ABC News agreeing to pay a $15 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit nearly every legal expert said that they would’ve won; and as others in the media show they are increasingly willing to comply in advance, like the owner of the LA Times Patrick Soon-Shiong, who Oliver Darcy is reporting requested that the newspaper’s editorial board outright take a break from writing about Trump, and balance any critical editorials or articles with positive ones.
Yeah, but here’s the thing. These CEOs who are thinking, “Let me just give him what he wants this one time and he’ll leave me alone. He won’t–he won’t hurt me or my company, or he’ll give me goodies like tax cuts or tariff exemptions or federal contracts, a pat on the head.” That is not how it works with Trump. His ego is too fragile and his needs are endless. As any parent knows, if your toddler is having a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store, the solution isn’t to just buy them the cookies they’re screaming for because then they’ll do it again and again, and you’ll be out of money and sanity and their teeth will be rotten.
And right now, Trump is that toddler, and he wants nothing short of complete obedience and constant adulation, for everyone to say they love him and praise him and tell him he’s the best president ever! And it’ll never be obsequious enough or vigorous enough. He’ll always want more, and punish and humiliate even those who do comply. Just ask Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and all the black Republicans who went to the mat for Trump during the campaign, only to get snubbed as he builds his administration. He will always reward weakness with more humiliation. And that includes foreign leaders, like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who went to Mar-a-Lago, last month, to kiss the ring, behaving like Trump was already president, which he’s not. And how does Trump reward him? By publicly mocking Trudeau on his social media site, once again calling Trudeau the “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.”
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