Joy Reid is one of our favorite reporters for good reason, she’s incredibly incisive, as in her breakdown of drumpf’s interview below, all the while lighting up the screen with her million megawatt smile.
Come the apocalypse, I hope Joy is in studio, helping to talk me through it…
Here’s her link to the entire interview…
Here’s the transcript. Enjoy. https://t.co/z3r5roQurE
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
But, if you’re pressed for time…
2. Trump repeats whatever he is fixated on over and over again. I counted 15 âÂÂno collusionâ repeats, sometimes two or three times in a single paragraph. And he keeps returning over and over again to the election and how he managed to win via the Electoral College. HeâÂÂs fixated.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
He literally adopted a “Godfather” phraseology to all but say Democrats could have avoided blue state tax hikes via SALT if they had “come to him” to plead for his largesse. It’s a combination of the impulses of 1. and 3.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
5. Trump invents his own reality, and then states that everybody else believes his version of reality too. And since he is so transparent, it’s hard to argue that this is a strategy, rather than a form of self-delusion or just stubborn refusal to accept what is real. pic.twitter.com/gYDm9QBcCd
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
There are literally no Democrats who believe that. None. But he repeats that over and over in the interview.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
It is absolutely stunning that this person is president of the United States.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
He clearly thinks this will happen, and that somehow magically, they will “do bipartisan.” That’s his actual phrase: “do bipartisan.” Not “do bipartisan legislation,” just “do bipartisan.” He thinks it naturally will happen.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
But it’s absolutely stunning that this is what’s happening. But it is what’s happening.
â Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 29, 2017
I particularly like Joy’s evoking of the “Godfather” metaphor.
I think that that is how Don the Con envisions himself…Don Cornholeone, dispensing largess and wisdom from a corner table in his own little trattoria, puzzled that so few crawl forward to kiss his ring….
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