MSNBC’s Joy Reid Blasts Rich People ‘Kissing Trump’s Ring’ Who Care About ‘Tax Cuts’ Not Democracy

MSNBC host Joy Reid urged her viewers not to believe the “BS” that “rich people” vote “against their economic interests” and blasted former President Donald Trump’s wealthy supporters for putting “tax cuts” ahead of “democracy.”

In an opening monologue to The ReidOut on Monday night, the host went after “America’s billionaires ” for “stampeding over each other” and “kissing Trump’s ring” to win favor with the Republican nominee.

REID: America’s billionaires, oil, gas, tech, media, and otherwise, are busy tripping over themselves and stampeding over each other to get in front of Donald Trump and hand him millions in campaign donations so he can get back into the White House. And in exchange for the bribes he’s soliciting door to door, hat in hand, he’s offering to let them operate with less regulation, including drilling on public lands. That’s one of two things you need to understand about the upcoming election.

The other is that the massive tax cut Donald Trump signed his first year as president in 2017 which was the dream Paul Ryan, the then-Speaker of the House, had nursed for most of his adult life, is set to expire next year on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2025. While President Biden has vowed to let it expire, Trump is vowing to not only keep those tax cuts but to add to them. That means billionaires can gobble up more tax cuts. That’s the reason every other billionaire is kissing trump’s ring and a lot of non-billionaire rich people too, including the rappers. It’s all about the Benjamins baby. They don’t care about democracy or voting rights or women’s rights. In fact, democracy and voting are an inconvenience to the super rich because when people get to choose, they almost always choose to tax the rich. Don’t believe the BS about people voting against their economic interests. The people who vote for Trump and other Republicans are richer than average. Not poorer.

Watch above on MSNBC .