During MSNBC's coverage of the RNC on Monday, MSNBC host Joy Reid stated that there is a fear that in the wake of the assassination attempt against 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, "the media will acquiesce to trying to convince people that the things they've been experiencing for the last five, six years didn't happen, that the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence really since anyone can remember, since George Wallace," will be able to "rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim," "And the people that I have been talking to don't accept the rewrite."