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Sat Dec 30, 2017, 12:31 PM Dec 2017

MSNBCs Joy Reid just revealed what everyone missed about Trumps bizarre NY Times interview [View all]

We have a senile crook in the Oval office. Yes. we. do.



MSNBC’s Joy Reid just revealed what everyone missed about Trump’s bizarre NY Times interview

http://washingtonpress.com/2017/12/29/msnbcs-joy-reid-just-revealed-everyone-missed-trumps-bizarre-ny-times-interview/




By Peter Mellado
Published on December 29, 2017


MSNBC news host Joy Reid published an epic Twitter thread following the release of President Trump’s recent interview with the New York Times. The interview caught everyone by surprise, first and foremost because it was with the Times, publication with which the president has been incredibly hostile, but also for his calculated language and his trademark self-promotional flourishes with little if any basis in facts.

As many as 24 claims Trump made in the 30 minute interview have been rated false or misleading by the Washington Post, and more than a few experts have commented on the president’s mental state after reading the transcripts released by the New York Times.

Joy Reid took a slightly different tack. She began her flurry with an observation about the president’s tone in the interview, saying, “Trump speaks a lot like a child does. Lots of focus on who likes him, who loves him, who is his friend… his biographers all emphasize his deep desire to be loved & it comes through.”


In a subsequent set of tweets, she focused on what she called Trump’s “autocrat’s impulse” when it came to governing, adding that “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.”...........................................................


Joy Reid?Verified account @JoyAnnReid

Now that I’ve read the entire transcript of @nytmike’s Trump interview, a few observations:
1. Trump speaks a lot like a child does. Lots of focus on who likes him, who loves him, who is his friend... his biographers all emphasize his deep desire to be loved & it comes through.
10:13 PM - 28 Dec 2017




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?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

2. Trump repeats whatever he is fixated on over and over again. I counted 15 “no collusion” 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. He’s fixated.
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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

3. Trump things being president means he can do whatever he wants. He has an autocrat's impulse, and believes literally everyone in government, from the attorney general to every member of Congress, essentially works for him, owes him loyalty, and must "come to him" for mercy.
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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

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.
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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

4. Trump thinks he is still the star of a TV show, and that the media has the power to decide who wins elections, based on ratings. Seriously:
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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28








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.
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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid






There are literally no Democrats who believe that. None. But he repeats that over and over in the interview.

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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

I've never observed anyone who is more precisely like his biographers have described him. And Trump's biographers have, to put it mildly, not been kind. He lives inside his own reality, where he is part beloved autocrat/dictator and part main character in a never-ending TV show.
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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

It is absolutely stunning that this person is president of the United States.

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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

I'm not sure, by the way, what this means for Democrats. Trump clearly assumes that they HAVE NO CHOICE but to come crawling to him to do infrastructure, DACA, and inexplicably, to make a new, *better* healthcare (he specifically says "not Obamacare."
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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

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.

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Joy Reid
?Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

If Democrats go along, it will only feed his grandiosity. If they don't, it feeds his rage and opens the black hole of vengeance inside him, which he could take out on them, vulnerable populations, maybe other countries (war is still not unthinkable...) I just don't know.

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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

But it's absolutely stunning that this is what's happening. But it is what's happening.

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Joy Reid Verified account @JoyAnnReid
Dec 28

Here's the transcript. Enjoy.



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Watch Joy Reid's Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #1
Not to nitpick ................ it is Cay Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #6
Sorry,you are correct. Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #9
just wanted to avoid any confusion for people if they looked him up Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #12
Cool. He's also a DU member and did some good reporting in the run-up to 2016 election. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #17
David Cay Johnston, actually. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #31
ODE to Joy.................. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2017 #2
Bookmarking for the link to The Transcript Hekate Dec 2017 #3
What trashbag tRUMP forgets is that the media was there before his orange ass and they Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #4
Still has daddy issues................bookmarked Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #5
and mommy ones too malaise Dec 2017 #13
I have not read much about his mother Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #23
Does he want to grab her by the pu$$y too? RainCaster Dec 2017 #33
Who knows? malaise Dec 2017 #34
Uhhhhh......did you forget summik? Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #43
K&R... spanone Dec 2017 #7
Do you think he ever reads or catches wind about any criticism of himself? smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #8
Absolutely he does. subterranean Dec 2017 #19
He reads what his staff puts into his two daily "happy folders" BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #21
Any questions to him about why our Niger soldiers weren't reinforced properly ffr Dec 2017 #10
Stunning and frightening.It's not out of interest onit2day Dec 2017 #11
t-rump should not be there in the WH. Iliyah Dec 2017 #14
This Mans Insecurities is Leading the Rest of the Population to Be Insecure, too Ccarmona Dec 2017 #15
Happy New Year from Kauai, Cha Dec 2017 #27
Joy Reid 2020! sagesnow Dec 2017 #16
Yeah! If a stupid Cha Dec 2017 #29
"It is absolutely stunning that this person is president of the United States." Martin Eden Dec 2017 #18
Shocking revlation Jspur Dec 2017 #20
Time to get agressive with the truth No-Bozos Dec 2017 #22
K & R. Good thoughts. It's as if our media is scared of Trump! KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2017 #45
Good on JOy Reid.. Excellent OP, Cha Dec 2017 #24
I don't get it. What's Joy Reid's big insight? aikoaiko Dec 2017 #25
There wasn't one oberliner Dec 2017 #28
Insight: maryallen Dec 2017 #35
That hardly seems like something everyone else missed. aikoaiko Dec 2017 #37
Zero. I'm not seeing anything I hadn't KPN Dec 2017 #36
I saw the segment. The NYT interview transcript came in just as she was signing off on Rachel's show. Rhiannon12866 Dec 2017 #42
She should maybe consider proofreading her tweets oberliner Dec 2017 #26
Remember in I, Claudius, where John Hurt's Caligula declared himself a God? dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 #30
Its on you tube....saw it a few months ago, anyway Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #44
When I first saw it on PBS back in the long ago dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 #53
Wasn't it Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #55
Maybe Trump thought that PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #32
Imagine how mangled the parts NYT redacted are. I want the whole transcript, not just excerpts. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #38
Gee, it's almost like he's just a figurehead, or puppet... Crash2Parties Dec 2017 #39
Joy Reid!!! AugustusRising Dec 2017 #40
I like them both. DesertRat Dec 2017 #49
When she's on other shows as a guest DeminPennswoods Dec 2017 #41
LOVE ME Goonch Dec 2017 #46
Joy is great NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #47
Trump thinks he's starring in a TV reality show FakeNoose Dec 2017 #48
We are truly living in bizarroland. We really have to get out of this country. Why oh why did my kerry-is-my-prez Dec 2017 #50
Pretty well F**** up Timewas Dec 2017 #51
He is a child, he has never grown up. redstatebluegirl Dec 2017 #52
Huh? What did everyone else miss? KPN Dec 2017 #54
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