Ep. 246: Joy-Ann Reid Explains How Donald Trump Represents Everything Wrong With America
Episode description
Joy-Ann Reid is the host of "AM Joy" on MSNBC. She is the author of several books including Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide as well as We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama. Her new book is The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story.
Reid explains how Donald Trump has betrayed American democracy, why his violence, racism and other vile behavior is appealing to his supporters, and how he is the human embodiment of America's cultural and social ills.
Joy-Ann Reid also reflects on how best to make sense of this confusing and disorienting moment in American history and a Republican Party and Donald Trump which are committed to restoring American Apartheid and total white rule over an increasingly diverse country.
On this week's show Chauncey DeVega ponders why so many journalists, reporters, and the American people as a whole, are still surprised by Donald Trump's racism and his newest exercise in presidential white supremacy -- the slurring of four nonwhite Democratic congresswomen (most notably Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) as somehow being inherently "un-American" and who should be kicked out of the United States if they do not bow in fealty to Trump's racial authoritarian regime.
Chauncey also shares several news items which highlight Trump's war on America's multiracial democracy and his campaign of cruelty against nonwhites and then asks you, the listeners, to connect the dots.
SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW
- Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll
- Growing share of Republicans say U.S. risks losing its identity if it is too open to foreigners
- Poll shows a majority of Americans think race relations under Trump are 'generally bad'
- A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville
- ICE Launches Raids Targeting Migrant Families
- 'It Makes Us Want to Support Him More'
- So-called 'ICE bae,' a Latina border patrol officer, is taking social media by storm
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