Posted on 01 July 2017

On Saturday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, during a discussion of the current feud between President Donald Trump and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Democratic guest and equal rights attorney Tamara Holder degraded women in the White House as being "very, very weak-minded" and as having "smaller minds than his small hands."

Host Joy Reid set up her guest's comments by showing clips of White House assistant press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, and Melanie Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham defending the President. Reid then mentioned that Trump had given an appointment to Elaine Chao -- the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- as the MSNBC host posed:

What do you make of that full-scale defense? Elaine Chao -- who is the wife of the Senate Majority Leader who President Trump gave a job to, which is an interesting tactic as well -- also defended him. What do you make of the women in Trump's life's response?

Holder immediately excoriated Trump administration women as she began:

I think that the women in Donald Trump's life probably have smaller minds than his small hands because, if they had any decency as women -- Joy, you have a father. If your father ever said anything like this about another woman, you would probably grab them by the back of the neck just like I would to my dad and say, "What are you doing? Apologize." He has continued to surround himself -- Donald Trump -- with very, very weak-minded women who are afraid of him. We are seeing Donald Trump explode from very, very far away.

She then added:

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Imagine the fear that these women have when they're up close with him. You can't fight fire with fire if you're standing right next to it. It's going to explode, and you're going to blow up. So this is why he has surrounded himself with women who can't do anything other than defend him -- kind of defend him or just not say anything.

Ironically, it could similarly be recalled that, in the 1990s, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton pretended not to know about her husband President Bill Clinton's serial mistreatment of women.

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Saturday, July 1, AM Joy on MSNBC: