MSNBC's Joy Reid says Biden COVID diagnosis is 'exactly the same' as Trump getting shot - while branding ex-president's assassination attempt as a 'photo op'

Joy Reid was accused of 'next level desperation' aft suggesting that Joe Biden's brushwood pinch Covid is arsenic heroic arsenic Donald Trump's defiance successful nan look of an assassin's bullet.

The MSNBC big was speaking from nan Republican National Convention arsenic news collapsed that nan president had cancelled a reside successful Las Vegas aft testing affirmative for Covid.

The wide anchor dismissed nan onslaught connected Trump arsenic a 'photo-op', and seemed dismayed astatine nan opposition drawn by delegates betwixt nan president's frailty and his challenger's vigorous consequence to being shot.

'Should he (Biden) beryllium good successful a mates of days, doesn't that convey precisely nan aforesaid thing?' she demanded.

The reply appeared to beryllium a resounding nary from galore connected societal media wherever Reid was bullied for 'mental gymnastics'.

'Wow... talk astir reaching,' wrote one.

The Brooklyn-born Harvard postgraduate was sharing a sheet pinch Biden's erstwhile property caput Jen Psaki and fumed astatine nan Secret Service for not stopping photographers from reporting that Trump was still live successful nan seconds aft he was changeable astatine Saturday's rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

'These 2 men are some elderly,' she observed.

'Donald Trump is an aged man who for immoderate logic was fixed 9 seconds to return an iconic photo-op during an progressive shooter situation.

'Weird situation, we'll fig that retired immoderate day.

'But his endurance of that and bouncing correct backmost and going correct to his normal is being conveyed successful nan media world arsenic a motion of strength,' she complained.

'This existent president of nan United States is 81 years aged and has Covid. Should he beryllium good successful a mates of days, doesn't that convey precisely nan aforesaid thing?

'That he is beardown enough, older than Trump, to person gotten thing that really utilized to beryllium fatal to group his age?

'So if he does good retired of it and comes backmost and is capable to do rallies isn't that precisely nan same?'

'It should!' Psaki agreed.

The president followed up nan announcement of his latest wellness interest connected Wednesday day pinch a cryptic tweet reading: 'I'm sick'.

Three minutes later, he added: 'of Elon Musk and his rich | buddies trying to bargain this election.'

Later, he gingerly boarded Air Force One, utilizing nan shorter of nan 2 sets of stairs, for a formation location to Delaware to statesman isolation.

Biden, who was not wearing a mask, gave a thumbs up from his conveyance earlier boarding, and said: 'I consciousness good'.

In an question and reply this week, Biden said he would only respond to expanding demands from Democrat lawmakers to driblet retired of nan title for nan White House if doctors told him to and location was a aesculapian reason that made it necessary.

'If I had immoderate aesculapian information that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to maine and said, you sewage this problem and that problem,' Biden said successful an question and reply pinch BET news.

Trump meantime is owed to present his keynote reside to nan RNC connected Thursday evening aft receiving a rapturous reception from delegates during his first quality connected Monday.

He was location to spot exemplary Amber Rose present a reside praising him for his support to achromatic people, remarks which besides infuriated nan MSNBC big who was accused of 'race baiting' aft sneeringly dismissing nan exemplary arsenic 'racially ambiguous'.

'I don't want to opportunity she's achromatic because she has said she's not,' Reid claimed.

'This female who is of immoderate title that she has claimed, she's said she's not Black, but [the RNC] brought personification whose full profession is based successful Black culture.'

'Her full civilization came from Black culture, moreover though she said she's not a Black personification herself.

'The truth that she is now nan personification they're utilizing to effort to enlistee young group of colour and to opportunity that this is nan personification who is nan endorser of Donald Trump who you should spot erstwhile she won't moreover declare nan civilization that brought her to nan table, I'm dubious that this will work.'

The model, who utilized to day rapper Kanye West, deed backmost astatine nan big insisting 'I've ne'er said I wasn't Black'.

'I said I place arsenic biracial,' she added successful a now-deleted tweet.

'I'm not going to invalid my achromatic begetter to make you consciousness much comfortable.

'Stop being a title baiter ur president does capable title baiting for each of us.'