Several liberal media commentators have lashed out at supporters of newly elected President Donald Trump in recent days, as the year draws to a close and Biden prepares to leave the White House.
“It is inevitable that the hyper-populist, non-college-educated part of Trump’s base, i.e. the plurality at the very least, a majority if you make certain arguments, would always be preconditioned to believe that the word ‘immigrant’ or ‘visa “Always on their minds means brown people are bad,” Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson said, before mocking Trump supporters, during an appearance on MSNBC.
Wilson responded to the differing opinions among Republicans regarding the H1-B visa program for skilled workers. which Trump acknowledged he has used at his properties.
“They believe that the guy with the GED and his fake Oakley sunglasses and his goatee and his pickup truck, the universal Twitter bro, who you see in every avatar on Twitter, that guy thinks to himself, ‘Oh, that I could have done that without DEI or immigration.” It’s absurd,” Wilson said.
A group of liberal commentators have lashed out at Trump’s support in recent days as he prepares to officially reassume the title of president. (Left: Screenshot/MSNBC, Center: (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images), Right: (Screenshot/92NY))
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, ex-CNN reporter Don Lemon and MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. also targeted the president-elect’s supporters and movement.
Rubin suggested that Trump supporters could not read at an event in the US 92NY Center for Culture and the Arts on Dec. 15, when she spoke with anti-Trump critic George Conway about the aftermath of the 2024 election.
“People ask me all the time, why is the media so mamsy-pamsey? And there are two explanations,” Rubin began. “One is that they’re convinced that if they moved just a little bit to the right, all those MAGA readers out there—you’ll notice the contradiction in terms, ‘MAGA readers’—would pick up The Washington Post. , and they would have more readers. What is the logical fallacy here? And there’s nothing The Washington Post could do that would make those people subscribe, but I’m confident they’re out there somewhere.”
Rubin also wrote a columnpublished on December 23, for the Post, which advised against reaching out to the other side to find common ground, especially with Trump allies and supporters.
Lemon called Trump’s supporters “stupid idiots” and mocked their “stupid MAGA brains” at a rally. episode of the Don Lemon Show.
Don Lemon will appear on CNN on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (CNN screenshot)
“You’re so damn stupid and you deserve it. You deserve it for being so stupid,” he said. “Yes, I rejoice in your stupidity.”
He said MAGA supporters were part of a cult and asked, “How dumb and stupid are you?”
MSNBC’s Claude made the argument Monday that hatred, selfishness and greed were part and parcel of Trump’s movement.
“So this is a very important point, right? In the sense that you’ve always had these three components and Ronald Reagan was able to balance them in interesting ways. And so here we have the plutocrat, right, in Elon Musk, right ? Greed, you know, pulling, kind of advancing his interests, and you have right-wing populism, right-wing populism that is sometimes expressed in terms of emphasis on the American worker, but it takes the form of xenophobia, it takes the form on from nativism, it takes the form of hatred,” Claude said, claiming that the three elements of the modern Republican Party are corporatists, libertarians and nativists.
MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. argued Monday that hatred, greed and selfishness were central to Donald Trump’s movement. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace emphatically agreed with Claude during the conversation on her show on Monday, arguing that understanding Trumpism was essential to defeating it.
“So we have the collision of greed and hatred right in front of us and that is the core of Trumpism, of MAGAism. It’s always been greed, it’s always been selfish, it’s always been hate and now it’s on full display,” Claude said.
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President Biden also called Trump supporters trash during a Zoom campaign call to Vice President Kamala Harris in late October, though the White House and the president himself tried to walk it back.
