Early Friday, the MSNBC hosts of The Weekend disrespected the was firefighter Corey Comperatore who lost his life in a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Democrat Symone Sanders described that the tribute to Comperatore at the RNC was a “prop” that “sickened” her.
Sanders began by stating Trump’s tone at the RNC was “one-fourth new tone” and “monotone.” In nature, she was shocked that a room full of people endorsing Trump turned into what seemed to be a Trump rally:
When he started shouting out the people who were on the stage and the people he know he had seen in the rally that evening, that to me, that was, like, okay, this is a Trump rally – this is a Trump rally because that’s what he does at Trump rallies, you know, I listen to the Trump rallies.
Out of nowhere, Sanders stated “I do just wanna note, I was sickened by the prop that was Mr. Corey Comperatore.” She continued that she “was sickened by them using him as a prop, his firefighter jacket and then they spelled the man’s name wrong.”
After attempting to say Comperatore’s name correctly, Michael Steele had to step in and help her pronounce it.
As if she hadn’t disrespected the firefighter and his family enough, Sanders complained "so he [Trump] said ‘oh, we are so grateful that the fire department sent this to us’ -- these are local doggone dollars okay? This is not, you know, Chicago fire.”
Sanders finished by saying “How come they got their names on the back of the jacket like who are you fooling? But then they put the name on it and they spelled it wrong. I was just kinda like if we gonna – if we gonna do props like let's at least get it right.”
Co-host Alicia Menendez chimed in to focus the conversation back on Trump noting “that faux populist message that he keep -- kept coming back to, where he does not seem to understand the basics of inflation, but he did understand that that would be popular with the general election electorate.”
Menendez went on to claim that “there were shades of the manifesto from the El Paso massacre” because Trump talked about “being repurposed about an invasion.” She then declared that previously “Donald Trump [has] embarrassed America on the world stage” seeming to forget that a few weeks ago Biden called the president of Ukraine, Putin.
Menendez concluded that Trump’s speech was “not tethered to reality.” Sanders added on that “he used dictators as an example – Orban, he talked about his bestie in North Korea.”
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MSNBC Republican National Convention
7/19/2024
12:33:31
2 minutes 51 seconds
ALICIA MENENDEZ: If you listen to the substance though there was a lot of what we hear from him at his rallies right? They – they – they – they – they cheated with covid, they --
SYMONE SANDERS: Oh it went half – it was -- I would argue it was one fourth new tone, by new tone, I just mean monotone and not as angry and again, he spent half the time like that one fourth telling the story of the assassination attempt, which of course is going to be more muted.
And then it went right to Trump rally. When he started shouting out the people who were on the stage and the people he know he had seen in the rally that evening, that to me, that was, like, okay, this is a Trump rally – this is a Trump rally because that’s what he does at Trump rallies you know I listen to the Trump rallies and then he started going off on tangents about the oil, and shouting out Tom Homan and saying we’re gonna do family separation. He told the people as you said, that he was gonna buy -- he was trying to buy their votes in Wisconsin. He was like I’m just gonna say it, I am trying to buy your vote's. He -- it was – it – it – it was crazy.
And also, I do just wanna note, I was sickened by the prop that was Mr. Corey Comperatore.
MICHAEL STEELE: Well exactly. Comperatore, yeah. Comperatore.
SANDERS: Comperatore. I was sickened by them using him as a prop, his firefighter jacket and then they spelled the mans name wrong. And so he said oh, we are so grateful that the fire department sent this to us -- these are local doggone dollars okay? This is not, you know, Chicago fire. [Inaudible] How come they got their names on the back of the jacket like who are you fooling? But then they put the name on it and they spelled it wrong. I was just kinda like if we gonna – if we gonna do props like let's at least get it right.
MENENDEZ: I am trying to organize that chaos in my mind and I think the closest I can come to substantively is three buckets. One was that faux populist message that he keep -- kept coming back to, where he does not seem to understand the basics of inflation, but he did understand that that would be popular with the general election electorate.
There was a lot in there about immigration. There were, I think what was alarming, if you were paying attention to it, there were shades of the manifesto from the El Paso massacre. A lot of that language being repurposed about an invasion. There were more than 20 people who died that day because of that rhetoric. And then there was all of this talk about America on the world stage.
When Donald Trump embarrassed America on the world stage, when you have his own vice president, when you have two secretaries of defense, when you have multiple national security advisers of his saying this man is not fit to be president of the United States, having the audacity to stand up there and talk about how America has been perceived in the last four years? I mean, it is not tethered to reality.
SANDERS: Not tethered. He used dictators as an example – Orban, he talked about his bestie in North Korea, I was like.
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