Pleasure Reid has spoken out about the way forward for elections in the USA, saying she thinks the 2026 elections can be rigged and that President Donald Trump intends to stay in workplace till he dies.
The previous MSNBC host spoke on Thursday (July 3) with Wajahat Ali on Ali’s substack The Left Hook, the place she stated she thinks it’s “insane” how folks consider future elections can be in any method “truthful” or “regular.”
“Each time Democrats say to me… ‘we now have to coalesce for 2026,’ I at all times add to the tip of their sentence… ‘Yeah, assuming we even have free and truthful elections,’” Reid stated, per Mediaite. “I believe it’s insane, actually, to only assume we’re going to have regular elections subsequent 12 months.”
Reid’s warnings come after Republican members of Congress handed Trump’s “massive, stunning” funds invoice final week regardless of many airing issues in latest weeks.
“To me, the truth that Republicans are nonetheless voting for the invoice tells me that they’re not really fearful about being reelected,” Reid acknowledged. “The way in which Trump is behaving, he’s not performing like any individual who worries that his celebration will lose energy or that even when the celebration, even when someway we had regular elections and Democrats took management of both Home… he’s not performing like any individual who’s fearful concerning the penalties of that.”
Reid, who was let go by MSNBC again in February amid a significant community overhaul, went on to say she thinks Trump is “behaving as an autocrat.”
“I don’t assume Trump intends to depart workplace,” she stated. “I’m very clear about that. I believe he intends to remain in workplace like Putin until he dies… I believe it’s going to take a rare motion to do away with him.”
In the meantime, on The Pleasure Reid Present podcast, which launched in June, Reid spoke concerning the precedent Trump is setting along with his denaturalization efforts. On Thursday’s episode, which touched on the President’s go to to Florida’s new detention heart for undocumented immigrants, Reid stated Trump’s plans might find yourself affecting his family.
“In the event you give the president of the USA monarchical-like powers to say, ‘I don’t like your views, I don’t like your tackle points, I don’t like that you just’re too liberal, you’re not conservative sufficient, I’m simply gonna take away your naturalized citizenship,’ nicely… if we ever get a Democratic president, they may say, ‘I don’t like Melania Trump. She wasn’t born right here. She was born in Slovenia. She is a naturalized citizen. She’s outta right here,’” Reid stated, per IrishStar.com.
She even claimed it might influence Trump’s kids, Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, whom he shares along with his former spouse, the late Ivana Trump, who was not an American citizen.
“Perhaps the subsequent Democratic president says, ‘You recognize what? I don’t just like the Trumps. So we’re gonna denaturlaize all the Trump kids, whose mom was a foreigner on the time,’” Reid acknowledged.