Former Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid, who was once “hopeful” about President Trump, is not warming up to the commander in chief.
Reid still has hurt feelings about Trump mocking the injuries he sustained when an exercise band he was using at home snapped and hit him in the face. Reid fell to the floor, breaking his ribs and bones in his face. He now is blind in one eye.
Trump mocked Reid in September 2016 after the Democratic leader commented on Trump’s weight.
“[To show] what kind of a person he is, when I injured myself, I couldn’t sleep in a bed for 4 months,” Reid told NBC News. “I had 12 hours of surgery on my face, broke all the bones in my face. What did he say? Did he send me a note of sympathy? He said, words to the effect ‘hope Reid tries another accident, gets hurt again.’ How about that?”
“He is not a nice man,” Reid continued, “and that’s an understatement.”
But Reid hasn’t always felt so harshly about Trump. In an interview weeks after the 2016 election, Reid noted that Trump had held fundraisers for him.
“You know, it’s not as if Donald Trump and I have been enemies our whole lives — he’s done fundraisers for me,” Reid told NPR. “When I was elected last time he sent me a letter saying ‘you’re awesome’ — a handwritten note. … It’s not as if I have hate in my soul for Donald Trump. I hope, beyond all, that he does well. It’s important to the stability of this great nation we have. And I’m hopeful — I keep using that word, but that’s what it is — hopeful that he will lessen his rhetoric and work toward a safer, more productive America.”
