Joy Behar says Trump's motorcade drive-by came 'right out of a dictator's playbook'
Liberal commentator Joy Behar compared President Trump's motorcade drive-by to greet supporters to the communication tactics of autocrats.
The View co-host criticized the optics of Trump's decision to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while recovering from the coronavirus. She also repeated a false claim that the president called the coronavirus pandemic a hoax. Trump called Democratic criticism of his administration's response to the coronavirus a "hoax."
"I'm watching that ... parade yesterday with him in the car — that was right out of a dictator's playbook, you know?" Behar said on the show Monday. "Parade the dictator around so that the world and America, the country, can see that he's still alive and he's still robust. But, you know, I thought to myself, usually, the hostages are not driving the car."
"He suddenly gets it now. 'Now that I get it, this coronavirus, it's not a hoax anymore,'" Behar continued, doing an impression of Trump. "The fact that he has the virus prevents other people from getting it now because he's in quarantine and he won't be spreading it all over the place at his rallies to his supporters, who believe him and don't wear masks. So that's the good part of this."
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