MSNBC’s Joy Reid was credited with “gaslighting at its finest” as she spun up a “universal kind of reaction” regarding the coverage of former President Donald Trump’s post-assassination attempt.
“And people are concerned and expressing concern that we won’t be the guardians of memory.”
The outlet, often referred to as “MSDNC,” may have pulled “Morning Joe” off the air Monday morning in a move that raised suspicions about the co-hosts’ abilities to avoid stepping on a rake, but they didn’t shy away from their other flamethrowers for live panel coverage from the Republican National Convention.
Alongside, Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber, Jen Psaki, and Nicolle Wallace, Reid lived up to her reputation Monday as she voiced her “fear” over how her corporate media cohorts might move beyond divisive and unfounded rhetoric.
“And people are concerned and expressing concern that we won’t be the guardians of memory. And that we will allow Donald Trump as he is, you know, bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party, to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim,” she said at one point during the coverage.
The take prompted former cop and commentator Brandon Tatum to state, “Gaslighting at its finest. This is how insane these people are. Joy Reid says Trump shouldn’t be allowed to play the victim after GETTING SHOT.”
Gaslighting at its finest. This is how insane these people are.
Joy Reid says Trump shouldn’t be allowed to play the victim after GETTING SHOT. pic.twitter.com/OTsrCVl5T2
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) July 16, 2024
In leading up to her voiced problem with the political capital gained by the president’s brush with death, Reid lamented, “I will say that the kind of universal kind of reaction that I’m getting — whether it’s civilians or, you know, professionals — is really a deep concern and lack of confidence in, not us at this table or us at MSNBC but, but us as the media writ large.”
“And a fear that what’s going to happen now is that the Republican Party will do what they do. They’re in the middle of a campaign. The convention started today,” she went on, “But that the media will acquiesce to trying to convince people that the things they have been experiencing for the last five, six years didn’t happen. That the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really you know, since anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think — that we just haven’t experience that kind of open, you know, sort of incitement of violence, or sort of luxuriating in the idea of violence.”
“It’s just not something we’re used to anymore in American politics. Then we had to get used to that being a thing,” the host of “The ReidOut” tried.
Meanwhile, Reid was featured prominently among talking heads who’d been called out over their own rhetoric, widely believed to have led to the assassination attempt on Trump in the first place.
Rants on social media that had the public calling for her to, at the least, be removed from MSNBC, included her referring to the president as Adolf Hitler and fearmongering over a policy plan that the GOP leader had stated was not his.
“Yeah, Hitler, White House, we’re keeping him out. We’re keeping Project 2025 out — that’s all I care about,” she said in one example from the week leading up to the assassination attempt.
Still, before recounting how she felt citizens openly carrying AR-15s at the 2016 convention near her broadcast was meant as “a way to menace us,” Reid peddled that reporting on Trump as anything other than the left’s demonized version of him was somehow a “rewrite.”
“That people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he’s done, but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will then happen without a guardian saying, ‘Wait, stop,’ and that the media will acquiesce to this rewrite. And the people that I have been talking to don’t accept the rewrite,” she said earning further criticism on social media.
She’s the ultimate victim, right
— INChrist (@immortalnchrist) July 16, 2024
@JoyAnnReid seriously needs some mental health care. She’s obsessed to a stalker level with Trump.
— MICHAEL Murdock (@docmurdock) July 16, 2024
Not really. Its insane they have an audience that believes them.
— Eazy Hax (@eazy_hax) July 16, 2024
These leftist are evil and have no soul.
— Rossache (@cdiaz1017) July 16, 2024
Trump didn’t look like he was playing a victim to me. Warrior.
— JDeniseTerry (@jDeniseTerry) July 16, 2024
Beneath contempt.
— StoneTemple (@SolutionsMcubed) July 16, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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