MSNBC anchor Joy Reid hammered Donald Trump for what she said was an atrocious oversight of the coronavirus pandemic during his time as president.
Reid, surrounded by other MSNBC correspondents and contributing guests, delivered her criticisms during a segment covering Super Tuesday, one of the biggest presidential primary nights in which voters in 15 states and one territory choose their Democratic and Republican nominees.
President Joe Biden and Trump dominated the elections, with Trump only losing the Republican primary in Vermont to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who withdrew from the presidential race by the end of the night. Their primary sweep sets a strong foundation to poise the pair for a rematch come the general election in November.
National news networks filled their primetime programs with coverage of each of the candidates. In one segment on MSNBC, Reid criticized Trump on his handling of the COVID-19 crisis before he was voted out of the White House in 2020.
“Donald Trump had one job. He had one crisis. It was called the pandemic, and you bollixed it completely,” Reid said. “You did so poorly at managing your sole crisis. He messed it up so badly that they had to do the stimmy.”
Reid uses the word “stimmy” to refer to the stimulus checks that the federal government allocated to Americans in 2020 and 2021.
“People loved the stimmy. Why did he have to do the stimmy? Because a million bodies are in the ground because of how poorly he managed an airborne virus,” Reid continued.
The U.S. government’s delayed response to COVID-19 when it first began to spread in the…
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