Addressing Elie Mystal of The Nation, Reid mused that “the way he [Trump] desecrated Arlington National Cemetery would be caree-ending for a normal politician, his constant lies. But even this piece about saying, ‘Well, my building was the tallest until, you know, they brought down the World Trade Center. Now it’s the second tall-‘ I mean, everything he does is despicable.”

“The reason why it doesn’t end his career is because his supporters are just as despicable, all right?” replied Mystal. “Like Trump’s whole thing, he’s a narcissist, right? And so his whole thing is to have a complete lack of compassion and empathy for everybody else. It’s all about him.”

“That’s why he lies about 9/11. It’s all about him, him, him, me, me, me. He’s probably the least compassionate president we’ve had in 200 years since Andrew Jackson. And it works for him because his supporters are just as ungenerous and have just as little compassion and empathy for others,” he continued. “So when he is seen out there essentially, as you guys have put it, desecrating our national symbols, when he is seen out there putting himself above all else, his supporters also want that to be the case. They want to do that in their own lives. They want — that’s how they think of themselves and that’s why it never hurts Trump when he takes these crass and classless actions. It’s because his supporters think that being crass and classless is actually kind of cool.”

“Yeah, and they also — he hates the people they hate,” agreed Reid. “So when he makes up this idea that these Muslims in New Jersey were cheering and they’re Americans in New Jersey cheering supposedly for the towers to come down, he’s like, ‘Well, yeah, because my supporters don’t like them.