MSNBC Correspondent Joy Reid Comes Under Fire For Suggesting Trump Radicalized His Supporters In The Same Way That Muslims Act
In what resembled Donald Trump's days as a reality TV host when he used the catchphrase, "You're Fired," the president demanded high profile cable news hosts to hand in their resignations. He had already urged CNN to fire Chris Cuomo from his job.
Trump's appeal for Cuomo's resignation comes after the anchor denied sexual-misconduct allegations on a stealthily recorded audio, CNN reported. He then turned his attention to MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who has received strong criticism for saying that Trump has radicalized his supporters in a way that coincides with the "Muslims act."
The POTUS took to his Twitter account on Sept. 2 to suggest Joy Reid should be fired for horribly using the words “Muslim Terrorists." Trump went on to suggest with this kind of "xenophobia and racism on MSDNC," anyone deserves to be fired.
Reid's comments put the president in agreement with the Representatives Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, and Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, both of whom have criticized the MSNBC host for his remarks. During her new show, The ReidOut, Reid suggested that the U.S. media describes the act of violent talk and leaders encouraging their supporters to be willing to commit violence as "radicalizing those people."
Reid went on to suggest that's the American media talk about the way Muslims act. She then compared to what Trump is doing to what they describe as radicalizing people. Her controversial comments followed the president retweeting a video showing a pro-Trump caravan in Portland with a man shooting paintballs at protesters.
Omar took to Twitter to slam Reid for her casual Islamophobia, deeming it hurtful and dangerous. Reid did not admit guilt during her program that kept the lost signal three times.
Trump's campaign has also called CNN to fire political analyst Joe Lockhart, who claimed Trump had a stroke that he had been hiding from the public. Calling him a "lifetime failure," Trump's campaign said CNN should fire him.
The campaign went on to slam Lockhart, adding that he supported Michael Dukakis' decision to put on that "stupid helmet," for intentionally supporting a conspiracy theory about the president's health. Furthermore, the campaign accused Lockhart of single-handedly sinking the John Kerry campaign and now doing the same to Joe Biden.
The campaign also noted that CNN would fire an employee that would say similar things about Barack Obama, suggesting that the same standard should be applied when a CNN employee says such things about Trump.