MSNBC hosts praised her remarks about former First Lady Michelle Obama to cover the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, with one admiring the ‘epic shadow’ that Obama is throwing President Trump his way.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow jokes that she and co-hosts Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid “are all goofballs, and all night long we are all -” before they break down to make hand gestures, indicating that they are talking to each other – ” all the time.
“And then Michelle Obama starts talking, and we’re all like – none of us breathed for 18 minutes,” Maddow continued.
Wallace said Obama had “delivered epic shadows” with the term “it’s what it is.”
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“‘It’s what it is’ was the line Donald Trump had on deaths,” she explained, “and every single death, every American life lost in this pandemic, is the destruction of an entire family unit,” of a universe, of a community, of a school if it were a teacher, of a hospital if it were a doctor. So for her to throw that back at him was elegant but epic shade. “
“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country,” the former first lady said during her speech. “He’s had more than enough time to prove he can do the job, but he’s clearly over his head. He can not satisfy this moment. He just can not be who we need him to be for us. “That’s what it is.”
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“The only thing she said I was not sure I was buying,” Wallace added, “she is told, ‘I am a Black woman speaking at a Democratic convention. I know some people may not be after me. listen. ‘
“I think she might be wrong,” she concluded. “I think every parent in America heard what she said, and it was – it was like being scolded by the good cop parent, right? You know, we know she’s right, and maybe we should do something different.”
“I would just like to see Michelle Obama recite the speech all over again,” Maddow said.
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“I’m – I’ve got a little bit of attention when it comes to tapped things, and I’m paying attention to production values … it’s hard to get kind of in the groove. And Michelle Obama started talking, and it was like – as if a moment had passed, and it was over. She is absolutely sounding. “
Reid agreed, saying, “I second and third just everything that has been said here. Rivers. Michelle Obama is sounding, was sounding. One of the best speeches I have heard her, and I have heard her a lot. speeches heard.
“It was brilliant in that it was not really personal about Donald Trump,” she added. “It just said, ‘This is a very difficult job, being president. It’s hard and he’s not able to do it.”
