Looking back on Donald Trump's first response to the tragic plane crash earlier in the week that claimed the lives of 67 people, including three members of the U.S. Army who were on the Black Hawk chopper that hit the airplane, three MSNBC co-hosts were stunned out how callous the newly- re-elected president was on national TV.
So stunned, in fact they ran a press conference clip for their audience to prove they were not "making it up."
With Trump immediately pivoting to blaming the crash on DEI -- the conservative catch-all term for anything they object to –– Trump told reporters he was certain it was related to diversity policies because, as he claimed: "I have common sense."
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That led "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele to repeat, "'It's common sense.' The most ignorant statement from a president in a very horrific moment for the nation. It's been 20 years since we've had an airline tragedy like this."
"No survivors, 60 plus families in mourning, a nation shocked and in mourning and this man wants to blame prior administrations, DEI policies and he wants to set a blame narrative in place as the nation is trying to grip itself around the idea of what just happened," he added. 'We see now the images; people are watching the planes collide, the explosion. You know what's happening there and he has that to offer us –– this insensitive, cold response to an American moment. Folks, we've seen this so many, so many times before and, it's for me, I'm really trying to be good with my language here because I can't –– their families are in pain right now and out of respect for them. I'm not going to share exactly what I think about the man sitting in the White House at this moment,"
As he was calling Trump "This individual who clearly has no sensitivity or heart regarding the tragedy in front of the country," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend interjected, "I want people to ensure that they know that we are not making this up, let's just play what Donald Trump said," before the show's producers ran the clip.
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