MSNBC personality Joy Reid went on a rant that can only objectively be defined as unhinged, accusing Donald Trump of using the survival of the assassination attempt on his life as a photo op.
Unhinged might be a generous description.
Reid took news of President Biden testing positive for COVID to suggest that his recovery would be equally impressive to Trump getting back up after being shot.
“Should he (Biden) be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing?” she asked a panel including former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
There are two ways to answer that: 1) “No.” And 2) “No, what drug are you on?”
Instead, Psaki agreed.
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Joy Reid Suggests Trump Stood Up To Get ‘Photo Op’ After Being Shot
We’ve grown rather accustomed to Joy Reid’s inane and unintelligent commentary, but this one made us do a double-take. It is off-the-charts idiotic.
Look at how she phrases her analysis. She suggests Trump and Biden are equally elderly, claims Trump rising after having his head nearly blown off was a photo op, and proposes that Biden napping for three days to overcome COVID is just as admirable.
Reid whines that Trump surviving an assassination attempt is viewed “as a sign of strength.” She suggests Biden recovering from COVID should be celebrated the same way: “If he does fine…and is able to do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?”
“It should,” Jen Psaki says. pic.twitter.com/P6CS47Q2PX— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 17, 2024
You can’t make this stuff up. I’m going to go through each statement one by one.
“These two men are both elderly,” Reid said. “Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo-op during an active shooter situation.”
No. Just, no. Bless your little heart, Joy. Equating the two age-wise just a couple of weeks removed from a debate that clearly showed Trump is physically and cognitively light years ahead of Biden just doesn’t fly.
“But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength,” she added.
It’s not a media thing. Reality and a functioning set of eyes will tell you that Trump handled himself with strength and courage with his response to the assassination attempt.
“This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has Covid. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing?” Reid continued. “That he is strong enough, older than Trump, to have gotten something that really used to be fatal to people his age?”
These claims are super-weird when you recall that Joy Reid mocked Trump when he recovered from COVID as “trying to look like a tough guy”. And that was after she accused him of faking COVID to get out of a debate with Biden.
“So if he (Biden) does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies isn’t that exactly the same?” Reid asked.
“It should!” Psaki agreed.
See above – No. Or no, and what drug are you on?
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MSNBC Was Worried About ‘Inappropriate’ Takes
Remember, this is the same network that in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt pulled their flagship morning show because they were worried one of the guests might say something stupid.
And here you have Joy Reid clearly saying something stupid and Psaki nodding like a bobblehead in agreement. The network brass might want to pull them from coverage of the RNC altogether.
Granted, that iconic, historical photo of a defiant Trump pumping his fist and urging the crowd to “fight”, blood dripping down his face is really, really good. It’s already broken a lot of people on the left.
A photo editor at a major news outlet recently told Axios that the image should be banned. The unnamed journo said “it’s dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is.”
Yea, it is pretty good. Legendary even.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 13, 2024
Imagine what kind of mind suggests that the former President decided to take a photo op after coming within an inch of having his head blown off on national television.
