Reacting to Donald Trump's latest position on abortion and his out-of-the-blue proposals to either have the government pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments or force insurance companies to pay for them, a political analyst on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ridiculed his motivations.
In a clip shared on Friday morning, Trump was seen stating, "I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment, fertilization for women."
Speaking with MSNBC host Willie Geist, who prompted his guest by calling the Trump campaign "flailing," Anand Giridharadas suggested Trump is running scared.
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"Look, I mean, for millions of American families, IVF stands for in vitro fertilization. For Donald Trump right now, it stands for, 'I'm very frightened.'" he joked.
"He is something we don't normally see: scared, defensive," he continued. "He's on his back foot, right? Think about since 2015, you and I have had this conversation in various forms, how many of those years was Donald Trump on the back foot, defensive, and frightened? He is now."
"I think the reason is, what happened with IVF, this started with Dobbs and abortion," he elaborated. "What happened with IVF is illuminating. I think it was the American people starting to realize that these things never stop with the initial thing, right? IVF was sort of falling down the slippery slope from Dobbs. You first come for abortion, and then there were murmurs of IVF."
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