JOY-ANN REID: It’s literally a giant grift that’s being conducted with a diminished, clearly a president who’s clearly not all there.
Joining me now is Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Senator, thank you so much for being here. I have to tell you, I watched that entire thing from start to finish with Hegseth and Trump.
The Hegsath one was dumb. The Trump one was actually disturbing.
As a United States senator, is there a conversation going on at any level about Donald Trump’s mental acuity? He seems, to me, to be a man who is suffering some sort of early onset dementia or– something’s wrong.
SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): Look, Joy. The Republicans in the Senate just are whatever Donald Trump wants is what they want. They are just spineless and they don’t want to do anything other than what Donald Trump want them to do.
JOY-ANN REID: But behind the scenes, do they know that there’s something wrong with him? Behind the scenes…
SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): They don’t talk about it.
JOY-ANN REID: They don’t talk about it. Let’s talk about-.
SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): At least when there are Democrats around.
JOY-ANN REID: Right. When there are democrats around. I was generally concerned. I mean, this man is in front of the United States military’s highest officials and was banging on about needing a Nobel Prize and about tariffs and the other N-word and just saying the most bizarre things.
And then he said he’s going to invade American cities. And I don’t even know what he thought they were going to say or do.
SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): You know, though–. This is the part that every time you try to get a hold of a piece of what’s happening, the difficulty is that someone else comes in and talks to Donald Trump and it all spins around again.