During Monday’s The ReidOut, MSNBC host Joy Reid fear-mongered her audience by distorting practically everything former President Donald Trump said during his infamous “bloodbath” speech. In addition to spewing the “bloodbath” hoax, she also spun lies about his proposed immigration and deportation policies, suggesting he was just going to deport any brown or black person they came across in the street. She said all this while unironically mocking Trump for supposedly having a brain made of “smooth clay.”
Initially, Reid acknowledged that it would be “useless speculation” to assume Trump’s dramatic rant was about him spilling real blood. However, she suddenly contradicted herself, arguing that “since he is actually being prosecuted at the state level and at the federal level for fomenting an actual insurrection that caused a lot of blood,” he might now mean it literally, despite the fact he was talking about combating China’s undercutting of the automotive industry.
Her infuriation at Trump the “maniac” was furthered by his promise in the speech to “begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Trump’s allusion to Eisenhower’s deportation project in his presidency catapulted Reid into a frenzy about how this meant Trump was going to roundup “anyone who looks like an undocumented migrant.”