'Sick and depraved' Trump buried for exploiting woman's tragedy in rambling Vegas speech
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski recoiled in horror after watching clips of Donald Trump's rambling speech in Las Vegas, saying his incoherence was further proof he was "unfit" to serve again as president.
The presumptive Republican nominee's campaign hired extra medics, and allegedly some attendees, to attend the rally Sunday as temperatures ran above 100 degrees, and the "Morning Joe" co-host was disturbed by Trump's inability to stay focused and deliver meaningful remarks after his teleprompters apparently failed to work.
"Some would call that completely unfit to deal with the challenges as the leader of the free world, just completely unfit," Brzezinski said, after watching video clips of Trump ranting about sharks and boats. "Not trying to be flip, not trying to be funny, that was just disturbing and kind of crazy talk of a guy who did not know what to say when his prompter failed."
Producers had rolled video highlights of president Joe Biden's speeches over the weekend in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and historian Jon Meacham said the contrast between the two was more than striking.
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"It's very clear, I mean, there's not a lot of mystery here," said Meacham, who has helped write some of Biden's speeches. "We have a president who is trying to maintain and strengthen a post-World War II order that, for all of its imperfections, has prevailed in a largely peaceable way since those men took the beaches at Normandy and went to Berlin, prevailed in the Pacific. President [Harry S.] Truman, in a surprising turn, most people didn't know who he was when he became president in April of 1945, grows in the job in a remarkable way, establishes NATO, establishes the Marshall Plan."
Trump told rallygoers that "I don't care about you, I just want your vote," and Brzezinski was troubled that Trump had exploited a woman's recent attack by a shark, in which she lost her arm, as a cheap shot against electric boat engines in his campaign speech.
"There is so much material to work with over the weekend between these two choices," Brzezinski said. "One on the right who promises to be a dictator, who promises to exact retribution on anybody who made him angry or held him accountable, and one on the left who, again, you may not agree with his policies and his legislation, even though he has accomplished more than most modern, if not all modern American presidents, he endorses democracy, agrees with democracy. He wants to preserve our democracy. There is the choice. We've heard it a million times, yet, and I have to say it because a lot of people are influenced by what they watch on Fox News."
"I watch the Sunday shows, there's all this material," she added. "There's this craven speech in Nevada in the sweltering heat, where he flippantly talks about a woman who lost her leg in a shark attack. He makes it fodder for his speech. Let's not even begin with the J6 'hostages.' He calls them hostages at a time where there are hostages being held in one of the two major wars that President Biden is dealing with, Israeli hostages, some of them Americans. They're being tortured and truly held captive, but he wants to say the people who defecated on the Capitol, broke in, broke windows, ran through the halls, talked about killing Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, those people who are being held accountable for their crimes by courts through the law, he wants to call them hostages. It's sick, it's depraved."
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