Trump attacks MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid on Twitter

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• President Donald Trump criticized Twitter on Thursday morning the host of "AM Joy" of MSNBC on Twitter he tweeted "Who the hell is Joy-Ann Reid? I've never met her, she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent and really does not have the" it "factor to succeed in the showbiz. "
• The president pretended to ignore who Reid had published in June "The man who sold America: Trump and the outcome of American history," before criticizing his role in "Comcast / NBC."
• "Had a bad reputation and now works for the Comcast / NBC losers making up fake stories about me." "Weak hearing, fake news!" Trump wrote in the same tweet.
• It was unclear exactly what prompted him to criticize Reid, but his last appearance on the screen before Trump's tweet was Friday night, when she replaced Chris Hayes on "All In" on MSNBC and repeatedly addressed issues related to the President.
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The Twitter target of President Donald Trump on Saturday morning was MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid, who published a New York Times bestseller criticizing him in June.

That Reid's book, "The man who sold America: Trump and the outcome of American history," prompted Trump's tweet uncertainly or not, is not clear, but the last appearance that she made before the president's tweet was on Friday night, when she filled in for Chris Hayes on MSNBC's "All In"

"Damn, who is Joy-Ann Reid? I've never met her," tweeted Trump, but immediately contradicting her feigned ignorance of the TV host she writes, "She knows ZERO about me, have NO talent, and really do not have it "is a necessary factor to succeed in the showbiz. "

"Had a bad reputation and now works for the Comcast / NBC losers making up fake stories about me." "Weak hearing, fake news!" the president then wrote in the same tweet.

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Reid has been hosting "AM Joy" since 2016. In 2018, he has an average of 1 million viewers per episode. She is also a frequent columnist for Hayes and Rachel Maddow, and is one of the most prominent Twitter journalists, being the "most tweeted" of MSNBC, which ranks fourth in the list of "top sellers". more tweeted, "reported Poynter.

On Friday night, as part of "All In," Reid discussed several Trump-related issues, including gun control legislation, an ethics lawsuit against his administration, and his trip to Baltimore on Thursday. he was met with demonstrators.

In addition to retweeting tweets about the investigation of the Office of the Inspector General to determine whether the Department of Justice and the FBI had violated the law on the surveillance of foreign intelligence by investigating the links of the Trump administration with Russia, Trump also tweeted Saturday morning, about a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the possibility of going ahead with a mutual defense treaty to strengthen the US-Israeli alliance .

Reid did not acknowledge receipt of the President's online tweet nor responded to it. She appeared Saturday morning in her usual space for MSNBC's "AM Joy" show. She has not yet recognized the president's attack against her on the air either.