Last night, on MSNBC Joy Reid lost her ever-loving shite on live TV while discussing the Trump Mugshot. For a lady not known for having her shite together and wildly disjointed historical takes, this was beyond the beyond. I even think she got Donald Trump a little confused with Gordon Gekko from Wall Street. Lord.

Every citizen journalist and corporate media type collectively held their breath waiting for the Trump Mugshot. It was released just in time for the East Coast 9:00 p.m. news hour. As you read or watch the comments by Joy Reid, remember that she has a heart for thugs of any kind. Joy has found justice in the Trump Mugshot, because of the Central Park Five Case. Here is Joy last night:

Joy Reid: "As a teenager living in New York, I've said it before, this is why I never watched 'The Apprentice.' I despised Donald Trump. He signified the rich white guy in Manhattan that absolutely hated and despised me."

Facts:
Reid is 54. The Apprentice aired when she was in… https://t.co/vQJAyIpWjh

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 25, 2023

The White Liberal Bobblehead Team of Nicolle Wallace, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes are suitably in awe of Joy’s hardscrabble upbringing on the mean streets of Manhattan in 1989. Actually, she was a Denver, Colorado girl and then a Flatbush, Brooklyn girl, and when the Central Park case happened, she was a Boston girl at Harvard, a University.

She talks about making the Central Park Five take mugshots. When the case was charged, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump had nothing to do with it. The late David Dinkins, a Black man was Mayor of NYC. Donald Trump wanted the return of the death penalty, not extra-judicial murder. Joy Reid was not a teenager in 1989 as were the Central Park Five. She was 21 and in Boston.

From Real Clear Politics, here is more:

JOY REID: So, people like Giuliani, and people like Trump, persecuted black and brown people in New York. It’s what they did for fun. It’s what they did for pleasure. They enjoyed it. They enjoyed lording over people who had nothing, who had no million-dollar lawyers. Who couldn’t change lawyers at the top of a hat qnd get a different hip-hop lawyer in the next day when they’re tired of one. Who couldn’t go to make their case on Fox, or a Newsmax, who had nothing, and who Donald Trump loaded his everything over. And still, people who looked like them, put him in rap longs. It was indignity, to me, that something I loved, a culture I loved, lionized that.
To me, this is justice. The fact that Manhattan didn’t give him a mugshot, I thought was offensive. I thought that the feds, we know it looks like, he was the president of the United States. Okay, offensive. Everyone else had to take them.

This is really where she lost her excreta* on live TV. This sentence shows her instability:

So, people like Giuliani, and people like Trump, persecuted black and brown people in New York. It’s what they did for fun. It’s what they did for pleasure. They enjoyed it. They enjoyed lording over people who had nothing, who had no million-dollar lawyers.

Instable and projecting, what Joy Reid who do if she had the power. Crazy instable.

People could not make their case on Fox News Channel or NewMax in 1989, because they didn’t exist. MSNBC didn’t go live until July, 1996. Joy has a habit of collapsing time and running events together. After she says “he” made them take mugshots, she says that “he” exemplified the “rich White guy in Manhattan”. I assume she is confusing David Dinkins, who was not White, AND Donald Trump with Gordon “Greed is good.” Gekko. Wall Street, the movie, came out it 1987, so it makes sense. See what you think:

But for the Atlanta Black Star this is fine; this is justice:

Reid first recounted how she internalized the Central Park Five case when it emerged in New York during her teenage years, citing the fearmongering Trump weaponized to dehumanize the young Black boys who were wrongfully accused and arrested.

“I still remember he made five teenagers my age to take a mug shot. As a teenager living in New York, I despised Donald Trump because to me he signified the rich white guy in Manhattan that absolutely hated and despised me, my cousins, my friends,” Reid said on MSNBC as the network covered Trump’s surrender in Atlanta on Aug. 24. “People like Trump persecuted Black and brown people in New York. It’s what they did for fun, it’s what they did for pleasure.”

To be clear, the mug shots were taken by authorities. However, Trump did pay for a full-page newspaper ad calling for the group of teenage boys to face the death penalty. Decades later, they were exonerated for the crime.
Reid underscored the significance of documenting this arrest with a mug shot, a part of the booking process that wasn’t conducted when Trump was taken into custody for his other criminal cases.

“To me, this is justice. The fact that Manhattan didn’t give him a mug shot, I thought was offensive. The feds said, ‘We already know what he looks like, he was the president of the United States.’ Okay, offensive,” Reid stated.

Not the first, and certainly, won’t be the last time, Joy Reid loses her shite on TV. I write these things so that you will know and remember. But ask yourself too, if Reid despises Trump so much why is she copying his hairdo?

Featured Image: Luke Harold/flickr.com/cropped/Creative Commons