An MSNBC contributor and New York Times editorial board member said she was “disturbed” to see supporters of former President Donald Trump flying “dozens of American flags” during a recent trip to Long Island.
“I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with [expletives] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and, in some cases, just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing … Essentially, the message was clear … This is my country. This is not your country. I own this,” Mara Gay said Tuesday on MSNBC.
The New York Times’ @MaraGay said says she was “disturbed” by the sight of “dozens of American flags” on Long Island.
“Essentially the message was clear. This is my country. This is not your country. I own this.” pic.twitter.com/bODbswStp4
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 8, 2021
The comment came amid a discussion with MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
“The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population — I don’t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others,” Gay said.
“I think that as long as they see American-ness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue,” Gay added during the segment. “That is the real concern. Because, you know, the Trump voters who are not going to get on board with democracy, they’re a minority. You can marginalize them, long term. But if we don’t take the threat seriously, then I think we’re all in really bad shape,” she added.
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Gay’s comments on the panel were not met with resistance from the hosts, and MSNBC did not immediately return the Washington Examiner’s request for comment on the remarks.
