In the days following Trump’s mug shot being taken and released to the public, many of his supporters have started claiming that it’s actually helping him win over Black voters. But MSNBC’s Joy Reid tore apart that “amazingly racist” idea on Tuesday night.
To kick off the segment, Reid played a supercut of on-air personalities touting the benefits of Trump’s mug shot, with one man saying that a Black woman he spoke to in New Orleans called Trump a “gangsta,” which apparently “means he has cred among a new block of voters.
The montage ended with Fox News’ Jesse Watters — who previously thirsted over Trump’s mugshot himself, saying “he looks good, and he looks hard” — saying that “the mug shot unintentionally created a bond between Donald Trump and Black Americans,” exemplified by the fact that “my garbage man told me he’s buying mug shot T-shirts for everyone he knows this Christmas”
“Oh bless your heart,” Reid mocked.