Left-wing cable news channel MSNBC is back to foaming at the mouth about Donald Trump.
Anchors Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid went off the deep-end while covering Inauguration Day, both aghast at the prospect of a democratically elected president making good on his policy promises that decisively swept him into office.
“How is this happening in America?” Maddow asked incredulously at the sight of Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem seated beside Apple CEO Tim Cook at the inauguration ceremony, Mediaite reported.
“How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money up on the dais with cabinet nominees and family members?” she asked, apparently forgetting that billionaires supported former Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump by a nearly 2:1 margin.
Joy Reid was also deep in her feelings during the panel, asserting Trump’s return to the White House laid bare fundamental flaws within America’s democratic institutions.
“I believe that this idea of the institutions — which the Bidens clearly believe in — have been completely exposed by this election,” she said Monday morning on the network flanked by Maddow and Chris Hayes, according to Mediaite.
The far-left activist commentator — who encouraged liberals to skip Thanksgiving dinner with their Trump-supporting relatives — laced into Trump after Hayes attempted to strike a less combative tone, saying he was “rooting” for the newly anointed commander-in-chief to succeed despite ideological differences.
Reid responded by rattling off a list of Trump’s policy positions that helped secure his historic 2024 election victory as “wiping away the civic memory” of Washington, DC.
“The promises on the table are 200 some odd executive actions, an attempt to get rid of birthright citizenship, an attempt to do mass deportation,” she said in part.
“This is supposed to be the great Christian president who is promising to attack immigrants and trans people who are already vulnerable,” she continued.
“These are some of the executive orders. The cruelty is the point of this coming administration.”
She also dipped back into the Jan. 6 well, which she labeled “a coup.”
“We’re talking about an attempt to portray this peaceful transition of power with people who were convicted in the insurrection, attempt, attending with the person who fulminated, who fomented the coup, being sworn in as president, essentially a delay in the completion of the insurrection, the idea that the institutions will hold,” she said.
She even invoked the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., saying America just had a “content of their character” election.
“And the person didn’t get elected due to the content of their character, to use the phrase — the only thing that some folks on the right remember about Dr. King,” she said, claiming the same holds true for Trump’s cabinet designees.
“You go down the list of the people. It’s no longer a content of their character or great meritocracy. Now, it is people Trump likes to see on television. It’s people he thinks will praise him. It’s people who will give him what he wants and allow him to do to the American people, to immigrants whom Jesus loved,” she said.
“So it is very hard for me to look at this spectacle of the takeover of the United States by a base mentality of greed and corruption and say the institutions will save us because they’ve not done well for us so far.”
Meanwhile, CNN contributor Tim Naftali said Trump “has decided to make good on his promise to be a dictator on day one” following the president’s wave of executive orders Monday, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
“That is a signal to the far right in the world that America is now going to play the game the way the other far-right countries play, which is what we want to take,” Naftali said. “Which means, for the first time since World War Two, we are no longer an indispensable nation. If we follow through with the rhetoric in the inauguration, we have become an imperialist nation.”
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