During an interview with Nicolle Wallace, NBC News journalist Yamiche Alcindor explained what it was like to be in the room as Donald Trump imploded at today's NABJ Conference.
The NABJ made the controversial decision to have Trump come and answer questions from three women of color today. The event went about as expected with Trump attempting to bully the women, frequently lying and repeatedly making racist and offensive comments.
Alcindor was in the audience for the event and began by telling Wallace, "To see former President Trump in front of a group of Black journalists who invited him to answer questions about policy, about his views on the campaign trail, about his views about America and his vision for the future, and to have him go after Vice President Harris in this way that is really, questioning her identity, questioning her authenticity, was really, something to behold."
The journalist then moved on to Trump's claims that he didn't know Harris was black, saying, "She has time and time again throughout her career talked about the importance of racial justice and tying it back to her own identity, so this really is something that I think is — it is really hard to fathom that former President Trump thought that this insult, this attack was going to land."
Alcindor closed:
"I was sitting in the room and people were stunned," she said. "To take you behind the scenes, people were stunned, people were gasping. Some people who were shouting back at him, saying that's a lie. So, the room, the atmosphere, I think, was already sort of tense because this is the president who has attacked a member of the National Association of Black Journalists."