MSNBC Hosts Asks If There’s ‘Truth’ in Trump Telling Crowd ‘I Don’t Care About You’ After He Predicts Press Will Pounce on Joke

MSNBC host Ana Cabrera asked if there was “an element of truth” in Donald Trump joking to a crowd of supporters that he doesn’t “care” about them.

At a Las Vegas rally over the weekend, Trump told the crowd at one point, “I don’t care about you.” The crowd laughed as the former president was clearly joking, but he predicted the press would run with the joke as Trump saying a “horrible thing.”

“By the way, isn’t the breeze nice. Do you feel the breeze? I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care,” Trump told his supporters putting up with triple digit heat,” he said.

He followed up adding, “now the press will take that, and they’ll say, ‘he said a horrible thing.'”

Cabrera played footage of Trump’s comments on Monday. Trump’s prediction about the press did not air in the clip, but Cabrera acknowledged afterwards that the former president did admit he was joking. Still, she asked political strategist Rina Shah if there was an “element of truth” in Trump’s joke.

Shah argued the GOP is “overrun with MAGA” and the base needs to be made “angry” to be motivated to vote.

“There’s a lot of truth right there because at this point in the game, you have to turn out your base and if you’re worried about them turning out, you’ve got to give them stuff to get excited about and that’s why he does these rallies, right? He believes that showing up gives them enough excitement, but I do believe a large number of supporters are also looking for a little bit more,” she said.

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