MSNBC’s Joy Reid says Biden COVID diagnosis is ‘exactly the same’ as Trump getting shot – while branding ex-president’s assassination attempt as a ‘photo op’
Joy Reid has been accused of “next level desperation” after suggesting that Joe Biden’s experience with Covid was as heroic as Donald Trump’s resistance when faced with an assassin’s bullet.
The MSNBC host was speaking from the Republican Party convention when it was announced that the president had canceled a speech in Las Vegas after testing positive for Covid.
The left-wing host dismissed the attack on Trump as a “photo-op” and appeared dismayed by the contrast delegates saw between the president’s vulnerability and his challenger’s forceful response to the shooting.
“If he (Biden) is fine in a few days, doesn’t that mean exactly the same thing?” she asked.
On social media, the answer seemed to be a resounding no, with Reid even being ridiculed for “mental gymnastics.”
“Wow… now that’s something,” someone wrote.
Joy Reid was appearing live from the RNC in Milwaukee when she made her surprising claim
She appeared furious that Donald Trump was allowed to express his dissent to fans after he was shot in the head at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night.
The Brooklyn-born Harvard graduate was on a panel with Biden’s former spokesperson Jen Psaki and blasted the Secret Service for not stopping photographers from reporting that Trump was still alive in the seconds after he was shot at Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“These two men are both old,” she noted.
“Donald Trump is an older man who for some reason was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo during a shooting.
‘Strange situation, we’ll find out about that.’
“But the fact that he survived that, bounced back immediately and went straight to his congress is being portrayed in the media world as a sign of strength,” she lamented.
‘This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has Covid. Should he be better in a few days, doesn’t that reflect exactly the same thing?
‘That he’s strong enough, older than Trump, to have endured something that used to be truly fatal for people his age?
‘So if he does well and comes back and can do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?’
“It should!” Psaki agreed.
The MSNBC host said Joe Biden (pictured shortly before Wednesday’s Covid diagnosis) would be just as strong as he recovers from his latest illness
As he boarded Air Force One without a mask for the flight back to the East Coast to isolate, he gave a thumbs up and said, “I’m good.”
The president appeared to downplay his diagnosis in a fundraising tweet minutes later
The president followed up his latest health concerns announcement on Wednesday afternoon with a cryptic tweet: “I’m sick.”
Three minutes later he added: “About Elon Musk and his rich friends trying to buy this election.”
He later cautiously boarded Air Force One, via the shorter of the two flights of stairs, for a flight home to Delaware, where he went into isolation.
Biden, who was not wearing a mask, gave a thumbs up from his vehicle before getting in and said, “I feel good.”
Biden said in an interview this week that he would accede to growing demands from Democratic lawmakers to withdraw from the White House race only if doctors told him to do so and there was a medical reason making it necessary.
“If I had a medical condition and doctors came to me and said, I have this problem and I have that problem,” Biden said in an interview with BET News.
Trump will deliver his speech at the RNC on Thursday night, after being greeted with great enthusiasm by delegates during his first appearance on Monday.
He was there to witness model Amber Rose give a speech praising him for his support of black people. The comments also enraged the MSNBC host, who was accused of “racial hatred” after he scornfully dismissed the model as “racially ambiguous.”
“I don’t want to say she’s black, because she’s already said that,” Reid claimed.
This woman, no matter what race she claims to be, has said she is not black, but [the RNC] brought in someone whose entire career has been based on black culture.’
‘Her whole culture comes from black culture, even though she said she’s not a black person herself.
Reid’s comments came after she was accused of “racism-baiting” over model Amber Rose’s speech to RNC delegates on Monday
Amber Rose waved to the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee Monday night after she endorsed former President Donald Trump’s candidacy
Former President Donald Trump, who officially became the Republican nominee earlier Monday, made a brief appearance at the end of the first day of the RNC and grinned as Amber Rose spoke
“The fact that she is now the person they are using to recruit young people of color and to say she is the person who supports Donald Trump and who you should trust, when she doesn’t even want to own the culture that brought her to the table, I doubt that this is going to work.”
The model, who was in a relationship with rapper Kanye West, responded fiercely to the presenter by stating: ‘I never said I’m not black’.
“I said I identify as mixed race,” she added in a now-deleted tweet.
I’m not going to invalidate my white father to make you feel better.
“Stop inciting race. Your president is doing enough racial incitement for all of us.”