MSNBC's Joy Reid calls for action on 'Trump's mental acuity' after latest 'bizarre' speech
MSNBC's Joy Reid tore into former President Donald Trump for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in her segment on Friday's edition of "The ReidOut."
The speech, one of the longest on record ever delivered by a presidential candidate, was completely off the rails, she said — and it came after an entire convention that was just the same way.
"Trump's big campaign moment last night followed an introduction from the Ultimate Fighting Championship chief Dana White, infamous for getting caught on tape slapping his wife during a New Year's party, and a shirt-ripping endorsement from Hulk Hogan, the long-time WWE character now infamous for dropping F-bombs and suing Gawker out of existence with billionaire Peter Thiel's money," said Reid. "Needless to say, Trump really dug their presentations. And there was also failed rapper-turned-some-kind-of-musician-or-other, you know, MAGA character Kid Rock."
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Trump she continued, then "made a dramatic entrance, strutting on the stage with his last name emblazoned behind him, and he delivered what was essentially a rally speech, a bizarre and boring stream of consciousness rant full of lies, complaints, and xenophobia. All this despite Trump and some in the media assuring us he was a changed man, seeking, what was it again? Yes, unity."
The 90-minute speech, she continued, full as it was with a "rambling series of lies," was so unwatchable that "journalists in the room reported that as Trump just banged on and on, audience members were checking their phones, stealing glances at the teleprompter, slumping in their chairs and even falling asleep. Some even left. I mean, the guy droned on for 90 minutes."
"Just imagine with me for a moment if Joe Biden gave a rambling speech like Trump did last night," Reid added. "It would be the biggest story of the year. There would be almost nothing else on the front pages of every newspaper in this country, and little else on cable and broadcast news. There has been a lot of ink spilled on Biden for doing far, far less. So why are we not talking about Trump? The same way we talk about Biden? His unhinged performance is somehow normalized or acceptable because he's always like that. Why is he always like that? We have to have a real conversation about Trump's mental acuity. Because last night, Trump showed there are two old men in this race. But only one of them sounds like a meandering Fidel Castro."
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