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Trump Watches MSNBC? Yep! And It’s Driving Him Crazy. So He Threatens to Tax and Penalize Them

Posted by on May 9, 2025 at 1:17 pm. 0 Comments :

Donald Trump’s television diet is ordinarily filled with the junk food and empty calories of Fox News, or OAN, or other devoted purveyors of MAGA propaganda. He feels secure in the bunker he has built that is populated by friendly pundits whose perpetual outpouring of praise feeds his massive, yet fragile ego.

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Trump’s fear of honest reporting keeps him in a state of constant anxiety and debilitating dread. However, on occasion he manages to stiffen his noodly spine sufficiently to hate-watch news programs that are something less than worshipful. In the meantime he barricades himself behind a wall of disciples who are ordered to sing his divine praises…

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On Friday morning Trump took to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, to express his outrage at a segment he had watched on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The segment featured an interview of Stephanie Ruhle, a financial expert and host of an MSNBC primetime show. Ruhle’s analysis of Trump’s recessionary tariffs triggered another one of Trump’s tormented tantrums. He wrote that…

“I just watched an exhausted, highly neurotic Stephanie Ruhle spew LIES about Tariffs, as do many others, in order not to give me the Victory that they all see coming.”

As usual, Trump is delusional. Ruhle’s reporting (video below), unlike Trump’s rant, was calm, reasonable, and rooted in facts. It was in line with what most reputable economists have concluded about Trump’s disastrous tax attacks on America’s international trading partners.

Trump went on to call his alleged “deal” with the UK “AMAZING,” and claimed, contrary to reality, that “We’re going to make a fortune with Tariffs [but that] only smart people understand that.” He still hasn’t explained how there will be any revenue from tariffs after he’s made all the deals he has promised in order to remove them.

Continuing in his infamously infantile fashion, Trump insulted Ruhle as “Never known as a ‘High IQ” person.'” And in closing he accused MSNBC of engaging in a “Major Campaign Violation,” and raged that…

“MSDNC has become the Voice of the Democrat Party, and they should be treated as a Political Advocate with all of the Taxes and Penalties therefrom. Their Ratings are terrible, but Brian Roberts and his crew should be forced to TELL THE TRUTH.”

Trump’s tunnel-blindness in asserting that MSNBC is “the Voice of the Democrat Party,” while ignoring how Fox News is literally aligned with his administration, is the purest form of hypocrisy. MSNBC has numerous Republicans on their roster, including Joe Scarborough, whose show he was actually watching as he unleashed this screed. Trump, meanwhile has recruited at least 21 Fox News hacks to serve in his White House.

MORE HERE: Trump’s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires

What’s more, Trump is again demanding that the free press protections in the Constitution be discarded so that he can impose “Taxes and Penalties” on the network, and “force” it to tell whatever bullpucky he regards as the truth.

For the record, the segment that is apparently the cause of Trump’s concern included the following discourse by Ruhle who warned that Trump “needs to get off this crazy tariff train, and he knows it.” [Because] unless he turns this around…we’re going to have a COVID-like supply chain crisis.”

“Donald Trump is backed into a corner. His grand plan of tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, aren’t working. You’re seeing, day in and day out, more business leaders – whether it’s Warren Buffett or Jamie Dimon or Ken Griffin – on big global stages saying ‘This is going to crush us economically.’ And then you’ve got congressmen, senators, saying to this White House ‘our small businesses are strangling, are dying here.'”

"Unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit" — here's the @stephruhle.bsky.social commentary that triggered a Trump Truth Social meltdown

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-09T16:31:48.237Z

Everything that Ruhle said was true and verifiable. Conversely, everything that Trump said was fantasy and preposterous. Not to mention un-American and inspired by the authoritarian practices of Trump’s heroes, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. But then, what do you expect from a wannabe dictator who doom-scrolls cable TV networks that he despises?

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Trump at the ‘Justice’ Department: CNN, MSNBC, and Other Media are Illegal and ‘It Has to Stop’

Posted by on March 15, 2025 at 12:42 pm. 2 Comments :

This week the parade of perfidy that has characterized the Second Scumming of Donald Trump (and the first one as well) took its roadshow to the hallowed halls of the United States Department of Justice. It was a particularly nauseating spectacle considering the role that those halls have represented in America’s history.

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Donald Trump, Censorship

The purpose of this presidential outing was, according to the White House, to discuss problems related to fentanyl and other drug trafficking related crimes. But as it unfolded it was clear that Trump had an entirely different agenda. Most the time he spoke was allotted to his whining about the results of the 2020 election; to his fixation on getting revenge for being prosecuted for crimes that he actually committed; and to smearing his political opponents for his own failures. It was little more than a repeat of his partisan and hostile speech before the Joint Session of Congress last week.

SEE THIS: Collected Quotes Displaying Trump’s Obsession with Himself In His Pseudo State of the Union Spiel

Crammed into his caterwauling commentary was another example of his hysterical hatred for the free press that he regularly maligns as “the enemy of the people.” Nothing bothers Trump more than hearing the truth be told about him. He raged that…

“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal. It makes no difference how big a victory I had. I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes no difference what kind of a failure the other side has. These people are gonna go after me. […]

“These networks and these newspapers are really no different than highly paid political operatives, and it has to stop. It has to be illegal. It’s influencing judges, and it’s really a changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other.”

First of all, let’s note that Trump uses the word “literally” when he obviously means “figuratively.” That’s because he literally doesn’t understand the English language. More to the point, his rant should serve as a five-alarm warning to all Americans who cherish the Constitution. His attack on the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press is nothing new in his repugnant repertoire, but it remains among the most troubling.

Trump is not joking when he says that, in his opinion, CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets are “illegal” and that, given the opportunity, he will see to it that they are stopped. He has already banished several news networks from the White House press pool, and he has declared that he will now determine which reporters are allowed to ask him questions, a role that was handled by the independent White House Correspondents Association for decades.

MORE HERE: Trump Declares Himself King of the White House Press Corps, Will Now Decide Who Can Question Him

One of the most egregious inanities in his speech was his assertion that any media that criticizes him is “no different than highly paid political operatives.” You’ll notice that he didn’t mention Fox News, a truly political operation, in his attack. And many of their personnel are literally paid to be political hacks. At least 19 of them have joined the Trump administration.

SEE ALSO: Trump’s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires

Trump also claimed, without any evidence whatsoever, that reporting by his media foes was “influencing judges,” and was done “in total coordination with each other.” That’s another example of projection by Trump. He often accuses his critics of the grossly improper behavior that he engages in regularly.

When a national leader’s authoritarian rhetoric descends to the depths that Trump is dredging, it is not long before he starts to implement campaigns of brutal censorship and even incarceration of journalists that he opposes. He is executing the playbook for media suppression that he got from Vladimir Putin. And if the media doesn’t take this seriously now, they will later find out that they are unable to do anything about it from their prison cells.

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MSNBC Dramatically Alters its Schedule, While Trump Falters His Pathetically Infantile Rebuttal

Posted by on February 24, 2025 at 2:12 pm. 2 Comments :

Last week MSNBC announced that was making some changes in their schedule. Among them was the cancelation of Joy Reid’s “The Reidout.” That news was met with disapproval and disappointment from longtime fans of Reid and loyal viewers of the network.

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This week MSNBC elaborated on their schedule changes. And the news has both pluses and minuses. Which in itself is problematic, There is no time for minuses. These are times that demand a staunch commitment to progressive media and the voices that will resist the all too apparent march toward totalitarianism by Donald Trump and his StormTrumpers. We don’t need a press corps that mirrors the one that Trump favors in Moscow.

SEE THIS: Russian TV Host: What Trump Says is ‘So Correct…In Total Alignment With the Way We See Things’

The news from MSNBC reveals more of what the lineup will look like in the coming weeks. The most notable changes are the previously announced departure of Joy Reid, and moving Jen Psaki to weekday primetime Tuesday-Friday. Rachel Maddow will continue on Mondays after the first 100 days of the Trump Regime.

Additionally, the current cast of “The Weekend” Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend), will move to weekdays at 7:00pm ET. The old Weekend show will get three new anchors, including Jonathan Capehart. A second version of “The Weekend” will air later in the day with Ayman Mohyeldin as one of the co-hosts. His solo show will end. As will “José Díaz-Balart Reports” and “The Katie Phang Show.” Both of them will remain with the network.

Among others remaining, Ali Velshi will expand his weekend show to three hours. Ana Cabrera, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur will all add an hour to their weekday programs.

It is impossible not to notice that all of the canceled programs were those with people of color as hosts (Reid, Capehart, Mohyeldin, Phang). However, it would be premature to conclude from that that prejudice was the primary reason for the cuts. Some of the new programming also features people of color (Capehart, Mohyeldin, Sanders-Townsend, Steele), albeit in shared roles that are not fully disclosed yet.

Meanwhile, Trump was busy ignoring any presidential duties that he hasn’t yet delegated to his co-president, Elon Musk. He was up late Sunday night whining petulantly about MSNBC on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. He raged in his hallmark infantile fashion about “Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts,” “mentally obnoxious racist, Joy Reid,” “seriously failing Rachel Maddow,” and “LOW IQ Con Man, Al Sharpton.” Then he closed his rant saying that…

“This whole corrupt operation is nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democrat Party. They should be forced to pay vast sums of money for the damage they’ve done to our Country. Fake News is an UNPARDONABLE SIN!”

If Trump were truly concerned about biased media in the service of political parties, why hasn’t he said anything about his Ministry of Propaganda – and primary pool for recruiting his administration’s staff – Fox News? However, this isn’t the first time that wannabe dictator Trump has decreed that MSNBC, and other credible media, is somehow engaged in illegal activities and shouldn’t be allowed to exist. For instance…

Trump’s tantrums over the free press that he regularly maligns as “the enemy of the people,” is not surprising. It is, however, disgusting and deeply un-American. But unfortunately, it is a noxious excretion that we cannot avoid for the time being.

What we should be able to avoid is betrayals by the media whose mandate is to truthfully inform the people. And at present, outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others are letting us, and the nation – and the world – down. It is up to us to make sure they know where they are failing.

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Trump’s Dementia is Flaring Up as He SCREAMS Inanities About Phony Poll Numbers and MSNBC

Posted by on February 22, 2025 at 12:39 pm. 3 Comments :

After the first full month of Donald Trump’s reoccupation of the White House, it’s safe to say that the bloom is coming off the roasted pretender to the presidency. Trump’s standing with the American people has never been particularly good. From his first foray into politics he has struggled to get within the vicinity 50 percent.

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Donald Trump Circling the Drain

Now, in record time, Trump has rocketed to the bottom the pile of unpopularity. As of February 2025, the only presidential poll numbers worse than Trump’s during what is supposed to be the “honeymoon” period, are Trump’s numbers from 2017.

SEE THIS: Trump 2.0 Begins with Approval Ratings that Rank Below Every Other President Dating Back to 1953

Undeterred by reality, Trump continues to insist that he is universally beloved. He employs that delusion to gaslight his grossly gullible cult disciples. And he has no shame whatsoever in boasting about the sort of adoration that he imagines is enjoyed by his idols, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un.

To that end, on Saturday morning Trump posted a couple of comments on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that reek of a rancid combination of acute derangement and malignant narcissism, shouting in all caps…

“HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS EVER. I GUESS WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!!! THANK YOU.”

Followed by…

“MSNBC, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MSDNC, IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY. SUCH LYING AND MISREPRESENTATION. BAD PEOPLE AT THE TOP!”

It appears that Trump was ticked off by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s reporting that his approval rating has slipped into negative territory by every recent survey. What’s more, virtually every policy that he has advocated is also underwater, including those that he has clung to desperately, such as immigration and the economy. So naturally, he had to lash out at MSNBC and post his own fantasy numbers that, in his psychotic state, were not only positive, but the highest EVER!

Crybaby Trump is very upset that MSNBC and other news outlets are reporting his abysmal approval ratings.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-02-22T18:55:25.115Z

Trump’s perverse perceptions of his popularity are mirrored in his hostility toward the media. He simply cannot abide the truth being told about him. So much so that he has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to suppress the press freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution’s First Amendment. This has not gone unnoticed by media advocates. Reporters Without Borders put together a concise summation of Trump’s assault on free speech titled: “One month of Trump: Press freedom under siege.” It began…

“[Donald Trump], his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information. [and] has systematically undermined the news media’s First Amendment rights.

“However, in Donald Trump’s war on the press, the American people are the ultimate victim.” [And] “Trump wants to make this about him versus the press. In reality, this fight is about Donald Trump versus every American’s First Amendment rights.”

Meanwhile, there is some potentially good news from MSNBC. The network is considering expanding Jen Psaki’s role. Perhaps they are considering giving her Andrea Mitchell’s old time slot. The network is also mulling an expansion of “The Weekend” to weekdays as well. They would be wise to take some of that time away from Morning Joe Scarborough, and/or Katy Tur.

Trump, of course, would hate any of those schedule changes. It would just mean more accurate coverage of his efforts to undermine democracy and elevate his authoritarian aspirations. And you know he’ll be watching. He can’t help himself. He thrives on the antagonism that it stirs in his shriveled heart-like organ. If he isn’t careful, he’s gonna give himself an aneurism or two.

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Who Should Fill Andrea Mitchell’s Now Vacant Slot on MSNBC? Jim Acosta? Mehdi Hasan? Or…

Posted by on February 8, 2025 at 11:52 am. 4 Comments :

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell hosted the last episode of her program on Friday. Her departure was announced last October in a statement that indicated her interest in doing “more of what I love the most: more connecting, listening and reporting in the field.”

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Mitchell will retain her role as chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent. However, no one has yet been named to fill her 12:00pm ET time slot. That leaves some interesting possibilities for the network to counter Trump’s war against the free press that he refers to as “the enemy of people.”

SEE THIS: Trump Hurls Hate and Fear at All of the Media He’s Suing Following the ABC News Capitulation

Among the prospective candidates to succeed Mitchell is former CNN anchor, Jim Acosta. He recently chose to ditch CNN when they tried to banish him to an overnight wasteland, despite his having higher ratings than most of his CNN colleagues. It’s clear that the network’s brass were determined to kiss up to Trump by silencing one of his most honest and effective critics. Acosta signed off by warning that…

“It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant…Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.”

Other potential replacements might include current weekend MSNBC hosts, Katie Phang, Ali Velshi, Alicia Menendez, Jonathan Capehart, and Ayman Mohyeldin. Another intriguing possibility would be to bring back former host Mehdi Hasan, an insightful journalist who was popular with MSNBC viewers before he was let go. Although he may not be available now as he has started his own successful media enterprise, Zeteo.

Replacing Mitchell with Acosta or Hasan would serve the dual purpose of pissing off Trump. Of course, he will attack whoever gets the spot with his hallmark hatred of anyone who dares to criticize him. And he has a special place in the decaying organ where his heart should be for MSNBC. Some of his recent outbursts include…

“You take a look at MSDNC, how evil they are. They’re evil. They’re sick. They shouldn’t even be allowed to do what they do. Because it’s so corrupt. They shouldn’t be allowed to do it.”

“MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump…Our so-called ‘government’ should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity.”

“MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason.’”

One option that MSNBC must resist is giving another hour of air time Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough, who is already controlling four hours every weekday morning. The last thing the network needs is to lean closer to the Trump-fluffers at Fox News.

Speaking of which, Fox just announced its own new host, Trump’s daughter-in-lawlessness, Lara Trump. Which is their way of affirming that the network has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda.

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Trump 2.0 Begins with Approval Ratings that Rank Below Every Other President Dating Back to 1953

Posted by on January 30, 2025 at 1:36 pm. 2 Comments :

While it may seem like it’s been two years, it has actually been less than two weeks since Donald Trump was inaugurated to resume his occupation of the White House. In that short period of time he has already surpassed his prior term with multiple acts that would qualify for either impeachment or the invocation of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove him from office due to mental unfitness.

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Among Trump’s growing list of impeachable offenses are his illegal firing of 17 inspectors general, his freezing of federal assistance and grant programs (that he has already been forced to rescind), his inhumane mass deportation plans, his vengeful revocation of security for former government officials who he regards as political foes, his inflationary tariffs that will mostly harm working class Americans, and his certifiably insane threats to invade and/or annex U.S. allies such as Panama and Greenland. No wonder he’s trying to transform his White House Press Room into a pure propaganda mill.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Press Secretary Pledges to Plant Pro-Trump Crackpots in the White House Press Room

In addition to the deplorable endeavors noted above, Trump is also trying to staff his administration with the most unqualified and anti-American roster of Cabinet officers ever thrust upon the nation. Notorious cranks like Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, etc., top his list of candidates to lead the country into an Era of Idiocracy.

So no one should be surprised that during what is usually dubbed the “honeymoon” phase of a new administration, Trump is suffering unprecedented unpopularity. According to Gallup “Trump’s Inaugural Approval Rating Is Historically Low Again.”

“At 47%, President Donald Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term is similar to the inaugural 45% reading during his first term, again placing him below all other elected presidents dating back to 1953. Trump remains the only elected president with sub-50% initial approval ratings, and his latest disapproval rating (48%) is three percentage points higher than in 2017, marking a new high for inaugural ratings.”

Contrary to Trump’s incessant babbling about allegedly having received a mandate from the American people, he is floundering with double-digit deficits to Presidents Biden, Obama, and Carter. He’s even below Nixon. The only president with a lower rating than Trump in his second term, is Trump from his first term.

Perhaps even more troubling to this malignant narcissist’s massive yet fragile ego, are the dismal television ratings for his inaugural address, where he was also crushed by his nemesis, Joe Biden…

SEE ALSO: Trump Gets Hit Where it Hurts: TV Ratings for His Inauguration Fall 27% Below Joe Biden’s

It’s also interesting to note that as Trump languishes at the bottom of the approval pile, the news network that he has said is “close to death,” MSNBC, and its star anchor Rachel Maddow, who he claimed “will be off the air very soon” due to her “horrible ratings,” are both enjoying a significant post election revival. The Wrap reports that “MSNBC saw a 61% ratings boost after Donald Trump’s inauguration.”

MORE HERE: Snowflake Trump Lies About Rachel Maddow’s Ratings and Predicts the ‘DEATH’ of MSNBC and CNN

These are unarguably difficult times as America struggles to cope with the monstrous mistake that it made due to the gullible (and misogynist and racist) disciples of the Cult of Trump, and the failure of the media to accurately expose the risks that he posed to democracy.

However, what remains true is that Trump’s abhorrent presence is still lacking in majority support and, hopefully, clear-eyed. patriotic citizens will be more committed to resisting it in the days (and weeks and months) ahead. There is still a chance that he could be removed by impeachment if Democrats regain the House and the Senate in 2026. So keep hope alive!

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Snowflake Trump Lies About Rachel Maddow’s Ratings and Predicts the ‘DEATH’ of MSNBC and CNN

Posted by on January 25, 2025 at 1:11 pm. 2 Comments :

Donald Trump fancies himself to be the world’s foremost expert on everything. He says that he knows more about the military than the generals; more about healthcare than doctors; more about the environment than scientists; more about the economy than the Nobel Laureates who study it.

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In addition to this extraordinary store of imaginary knowledge, Trump also regards himself as a crack media analyst whose experience as a reality TV game show host qualifies him to offer commentaries on the state of the television news business that he both despises and relies upon to feed his expansive ego. It’s why he obsesses so feverishly over the ratings of his frequent TV appearances that often fail to draw significant numbers of viewers.

SEE THIS: Trump Gets Hit Where it Hurts: TV Ratings for His Inauguration Fall 27% Below Joe Biden’s

Late Friday night Trump posted a desperate wail on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, that attacked one of his favorite cable news foes, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. He raged that…

“Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She’ll be off the air very soon. MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the Enemy of the people!”

There is a remarkable quantity of trash in that tirade. Let’s begin with the fact that MSNBC’s ratings have been quite good lately. In fact, according to Adweek, for the week of January 13, 2025…

“MSNBC’s primetime lineup averaged 758,000 total viewers and 64,000 viewers in the A25-54 demo for week-to-week gains of +5% and +16%, respectively. […] Among all basic cable networks, MSNBC remained in third place in total primetime viewers.”

So MSNBC’s ranking is rising and placed third among all basic cable networks. As for Maddow, her program drew almost three times as many viewers as the network’s total day average during the period. These are not exactly stats that forecast doom. And they come as Maddow returns to a 5-day-a-week schedule for the first 100 days of Trump’s occupation of the White House. Which is likely one of the factors that triggered his tirade.

GOOD NEWS: Rachel Maddow Will Return to Airing 5 Days a Week for the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0

It’s not surprising that the “death” that Trump is predicting for the network has no basis in reality. Likewise, his celebration of the network’s demise is totally in his own mangled mind. He has long been afraid of Maddow and MSNBC, and has explicitly – albeit impotently – threatened them in the past…

FOR EXAMPLE: Trump Threatens to ‘Come Down Hard on’ MSNBC and ‘Make Them Pay’ for Daring to Criticize Him

But then, what else would you expect from a wannabe dictator who calls the free press “the enemy of the people,”? and opines that the networks that he doesn’t like should not be permitted to exist?

WHAT 1st AMENDMENT?Wannabe dictator Trump posts comment whining that CNN and MSNBC "shouldn't even have a right to broadcast."

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T09:54:37.215Z

UPDATE January 29,2025: Ratings continue to climb for MSNBC as the network posts a 61% gain since the Trump Inauguration.

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GOOD NEWS: Rachel Maddow Will Return to Airing 5 Days a Week for the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0

Posted by on January 13, 2025 at 1:36 pm. 0 Comments :

The tsunami of unsettling reports that have saturated the media in recent weeks has cast a pall on the newborn year of 2025. They include the unfolding consequences of the last November’s election, the persistent news of deadly conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and of course, the catastrophic wildfires that have ravaged several neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Amidst all of those harrowing happenings the nation has also had to contend with the dystopian soap opera surrounding the reoccupation of the White House by Donald Trump. His toxic tendencies and temper tantrums have lived up to the worst predictions made prior to his unwelcome ascendancy. He has even managed to combine separate awful affairs to merge into mega-monstrosities.

SEE THIS: Trump Lashes Out Manically at Firefighters and Jack Smith in a Rabid Late-Night Freakout

So it comes with some relief to learn that there will be some respite in the storm of psychobabble that consumes America’s airwaves. MSNBC has just announced that Rachel Maddow, who has been on the air weekly for the past several months, is returning to a five-day-a-week schedule…

“MSNBC fans are about to get a bigger dose of its marquee host: For the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency, ‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ will revert to its former five-night-a-week schedule.”

It is significant to note that this is a temporary change that will be in place for the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office. Those will be particularly volatile days in the words of Trump himself, who has promised that “all hell will break loose.” He has said that there will a hundred or more executive orders from day one, a day on which he is also planning the biggest mass deportation in history.

Consequently, Maddow will have her hands full for the duration of her extended broadcasts. And it’s safe to predict that not much of the rest of the media will be covering the issues as thoroughly and honestly as she will. Alex Wagner, who has been airing on Tuesday through Friday, will take to the road for special reports on “Trumpland: The First 100 Days,” before returning to her anchor desk in May.

For a sneak preview of Maddow’s priorities for her program, what follows are some of her answers in an interview about the schedule change.

Question: What’s it going to be like covering Trump in 2025 vs. 2017? Have you learned any lessons from his first administration?
Answer: In the first Trump term, one of the things that we learned was this idea of watching what they do, not what they say. Trump is a real master of shifting the news cycle toward himself and away from himself as best suits his purposes, simply by saying really transgressive and shocking things all the time. […]

We’re already seeing the freneticism of the Trump news cycle taking over, even during the transition. We’re seeing the unpredictable cadence of the way news breaks as opposed to a more competent rational administration. So we’ll see; we’re trying to be ready for anything.

Question: There seems to be an exhaustion factor about Trump news. Do you agree, and if so, is it understandable, unhealthy, or both?
Answer: Everybody sort of implicitly knows that pretending something isn’t happening does not ensure that the thing doesn’t actually happen; there’s a sort of head-in-the-sand wish casting that’s happening with a lot of people checking out of the news, thinking ‘If I don’t hear about it, if I don’t look at it, then maybe it’s not happening.’ But people know that’s not actually the way to stop it from happening.”

Question: Trump has long attacked the press as the enemy…How do you deal with that?
Answer: As long as we’re still here, our job is pretty clear: Follow the facts, don’t be intimidated, tell true stories, help people understand the world. And I’m going to keep doing that […] Americans broadly know that we need a free press. We don’t need just state TV; we don’t need to have the government control the media, as happens in authoritarian countries. You want a free and independent and even oppositional press if you want a healthy country, and I think the country recognizes that. All of us in the business recognize that.

It will be refreshing to get Maddow’s insights on a more frequent basis while Trump and his MAGA media minions seek to deflect and distort what they are doing. And hopefully she will have some influence on her peers that results in better journalism all around. Especially while so many lies are proliferating on social media platforms that have abandoned fact-checking and thus, their responsibility to the their readers, their nation, and the world.

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Morning Joe’s Craven Capitulation to Trump is Just Cause for MSNBC to Consider Pulling the Plug

Posted by on November 18, 2024 at 3:05 pm. 1 Comments :

Whenever an emerging totalitarian regime starts to reveal its intentions, there are weak citizens and organizations that seek to get in front of the tyrannical train and declare their allegiance to the dawning dictatorship before it actually assumes power.

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That display of spinelessness was evident when the Washington Post and other media enterprises withheld their endorsements of Kamala Harris prior to the election. It’s especially disturbing when comedy news satire programs are more credible journalists than mainstream media…

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With the election behind us, it took less than two weeks for a usually reliable news network to fall under the spell of the demagogic cult leader, Donald Trump. On Monday morning the hosts of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, opened their program with a report on their recent visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home/hotel. It was not exactly a story of courage or journalistic integrity (video below). Mika began…

“Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people from political leaders to regular citizens deeply dismayed by several of president-elect Trump’s Cabinet selections, and they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself. On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that.”

Joe said that he talked to Trump about a lot of issues, including those with which they disagreed. “What we did agree on,” Mika said, “was to restart communications” [and that] “He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.” And if she believes that Trump has any genuine interest in finding common ground she is terminally naïve. She continued…

“We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate, but for nearly 80 million Americans. election denialism, public trials, January 6th, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”

First of all, Trump had less than 77 million votes, and only about two million more than Harris. It was one of the closest elections in modern times, and not in any way a mandate for Trump, or reason for Democrats to cave in. Furthermore, merely because Trump came out slightly ahead is no reason to forget the atrocities he was responsible for, including the violent January 5th insurrection, and his dozens of felony charges and convictions.

Joe suggested that “this is a president who is not seeking reelection, so maybe, just maybe now could be time for both parties to get to work.” Which is patently absurd. Trump is not thinking about reelection as a factor in pursuing his authoritarian power grab. In fact, he may not be thinking about ever having to stand for election again at all, while still staying in power.

Mika added that “Hyperbole and personal attacks will not work. My hair on fire doesn’t work. We have all seen that. What also does not work is threatening political opponents with arrest, harassment and even jail. That is a failed path.” Of course, she’s wrong. Trump succeeded with his threats and fear mongering and therefore, will see no reason to abandon those tactics now. Continuing…

“We know that this will be a consequential presidency. The question is whether it will be constructive. It will take a new approach from all sides, from both parties, and a leader who can bring them together. And only time will tell if Donald Trump can be that leader.”

Wrong again. Trump has no intention of bringing anyone together. He has said so explicitly, reiterating his threats against his critics, political opponents, and the media.

Joe closed by saying that he is “not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump.” But that’s precisely what he is doing. How else can he justify cozying up to someone he once compared to Hitler? A comment that drew a response from Trump’s spokesperson threatening that “their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when president Trump returns to the White House.”

This would be a good time for MSNBC to reconsider whether having Joe and Mika on for three hours every weekday is really a good idea while Trump and his regime are dismantling democracy. And it will be interesting to see how their network colleagues (Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki, Alex Wagner, Nicole Wallace, etc., respond. Katie Phang has already made her feelings clear…

https://x.com/KatiePhang/status/1858520409710182606

UPDATE: CNN is reporting that “According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Scarborough and Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration.” [and that] “the incoming Trump administration could use its wide-ranging powers to punish people deemed enemies.”

So in other words, the cowards capitulated.

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BIDEN: Trump is Riding Around in His Golf Cart at Mar-a-Lago Talking to His Wealthy Friends

Posted by on July 8, 2024 at 1:39 pm. 1 Comments :

Nearly two weeks ago, President Biden debated Donald Trump on CNN and unfortunately fell short of offering an accounting of himself that could have buried the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist before a national audience of millions. It was a missed opportunity to pull ahead of Trump and coast to victory in November.

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For the two weeks that have transpired since, the media has been doing a great disservice to the nation by obsessing over President Biden’s age, while ignoring his successes with the economy and foreign policy, as well as Trump’s pathological lies and incoherence bordering on insanity. And it’s not as if Trump’s debate performance was anything but an embarrassing excretion of flagrant falsehoods and infantile insults.

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Furthermore, Biden has spent the past two weeks doing rallies and interviews – 18 so far – in order to demonstrate his vigor and competence as a proven leader. And where has Trump been? Well, let’s let Biden tell us what he told Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning…

“Trump’s just a liar. And he hasn’t done a damn thing since the debate. He’s been riding around in his golf cart for 10 days down in Mar-a-Lago talking to his wealthy friends.”

Exactly!. Trump’s avoidance of the press and the public is typical of his cowardly campaign strategy throughout this election cycle. The only public appearances he makes are before rapidly shrinking crowds of his glassy-eyed cult disciples. And the only interviews he grants are with certified Trump-fluffers on devoted propaganda outlets. And even those are having a hard time living down to his demands for total capitulation to unflinching adoration.

Biden also told Joe Scarborough that he is adamant about his decision to stay in the race and beat Trump – again. The decision voters have to make now is historically unique. It isn’t just one candidate or the other. It’s a decent leader with integrity, or a criminal, wannabe dictator that half the country thinks should be in prison. Biden reiterated some of his reasons for running, saying that…

“I’m running because I never bought into the trickle-down economics theory. I never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world and cave to Putin or anybody else.” [and that] “I’m confidant that’s where the American people are…I don’t care what the millionaires think.”

Trump meanwhile, continues to boldly run away from his own positions and platforms, such as “Project 2025,” a handbook for fascism, that was authored by many of his closest associates. He likewise continues to spew utterly bizarre tales that bare no resemblance to reality (e.g. fantasy death by batteries or sharks, all Democrats favoring overturning of Roe v Wade, Biden orchestrating his 34 felony convictions, etc.).

Biden’s post-debate appearances have shown him to be alert and engaged and compassionate about advancing the interests of the American people. Trump, however, has burrowed himself into his Mar-a-Lago bunker among the wealthy guests who worship him. But his conspicuous absence from the campaign trail raises questions about his own fitness for office. Will the press interrupt their marathon Biden-bashing to explore any of those questions? To be determined…

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