Senate minority leader Harry Reid spoke about Donald Trump and the Republican Party on the floor of the Senate Thursday morning. "Senate Republicans have spent their time doing everything in their power to discredit President Obama and empower Donald Trump," he said. Trump "is their Frankenstein monster," Reid said about Senate Republicans. "Trump is no anomaly. He is the monster the Republicans built. He is their Frankenstein monster. They own him." "They are the party of Trump. They say they're not the party of Trump, but they are," Reid said. <blockquote>SEN. HARRY REID: This Republican Congress, and especially as we head for yet another unearned recess, I feel compelled to comment on how Republicans have treated the President of the United States during the last eight years. History will look back and note the Republicans in Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect. No one expected them to agree with everything that he did or tried to do, but Americans deserve better than the way Republicans behaved toward President Obama. Mr. President, a day or two after President Obama was elected the first time, Republicans met here in Washington -- all the Republican big names -- and they came to two conclusions: Number one, Obama would not be reelected. They failed on that one, quite miserably. But, number two, that they would oppose everything that President Obama tried to do, and they have stuck by that, without any question. America will be better with a responsible opposition party that found a way to make its differences with President Obama clear without treating him with such contempt. But, sadly, that's not what they saw from the Republicans over the past eight years. President Obama is the first president to be denied a hearing on his budget. He's the first president to be denied hearing a Supreme Court nominee. President Obama is the first president asked to show his birth certificate. President Obama is the first president to face over 500 filibusters here in the Senate. In this Republican Senate, President Obama will receive fewer nominees confirmed than any president in many, many decades. Republicans have not done their basic work of government. They have not stood by their commitments to restore regular order or to pass a budget. Republicans have spent their time doing everything in their power to discredit President Obama and empower Donald Trump. That's not a legacy that any senator should be proud of. I listened to public radio this morning, and the "Arizona Republic" from the big city of Phoenix, right next to Nevada, for the first time in its history of more than 120 years, the first time in its history, endorsed a Democratic presidential nominee. Never been done before. It's a Republican newspaper. I listened to the editor of the newspaper on the radio this morning saying they couldn't. Why? Because of Donald Trump. The legacy of Donald Trump should not be anything the Republicans are proud of. The only thing Republicans have done this year was to prove that they are the party of Trump. They are the party of Trump. They say they're not the party of Trump, but they are. They would have us believe that Trump just fell out of the sky and somehow mysteriously became the nominee of the party. But that's not the way it is. Everything that he's said, stood for, done in this bizarre campaign that he's run has come, filtered up from what's going on here in the Republican Senate. Disagreeing with everything, anything that President Obama wanted. They filibustered things they agreed with, just to slow things down. Trump is no anomaly. He is the monster the Republicans built. He is their Frankenstein monster. They own him. All you have to do to see that the Republicans are the party of Trump is to look at the way they've treated [Obama]. He is a good family man, great education, good communicator, written two best-selling books. Everyone knows he can communicate orally. He deserved better than the unprecedented disrespect Republicans have shown toward him. America, which twice elected Barack Obama to be its president, deserves better. Much, much better. It is a shame.</blockquote>