On Saturday's Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal made his most recent snide comments about white Americans as he complained that most whites voted for Donald Trump in spite of him telling them "exactly what they were going to do."
During a discussion of some of President Trump's actions, including firings, the ending of DEI, and pardoning January 6th rioters, Velshi turned to Mystal, who is a justice correspondent for the far-left magazine The Nation, and lamented Trump's "firehose" of executive action:
Elie, it's been a firehose of stuff going on in the federal government generally and the Department of Justice fairly specifically this week. Some have described it as a "shock and awe campaign," which might be what it is. I guess the danger is, in covering Trump 2.0, how do we deal with this? Because these things have real implications. Everything (MSNBC contributor) Joyce (Vance) just described -- people are effected by this. This is not just an abstraction.
Mystal -- who has a history of excoriating whites in some of his MSNBC appearances -- did so again as he singled out white Americans who voted for a "disgusting version of America" that Trump is allegedly bringing:
We tried to tell y'all. I mean, Ali, I wrote specifically about this issue -- what he was going to do to the Department of Justice -- multiple times during the election cycle because, as you pointed out in your open, this was all written down. So I don't like the "shock and awe" version of this because if you'd been paying attention, they wrote it down. They told you exactly what they were going to do and exactly how you were going to do it. And a majority of white people voted for this. This is the disgusting version of America that people want, and, oh, by the way, eggs are still more expensive. So you even get that. Great job, white folks.
He soon added:
Again, this is what Trump promised, this is what white folks voted for, and this is what you normalize whenever you act like Trump is a regular, normal President who just has a different point of view than you do, right? So, like, it would be great if we could stand as one and draw a line in the sand and say, "This far, no further," but we're not going to do that. Our party is always on the back foot -- always falling back, and Republicans are such pathetic cowards.
After he took aim at Republicans who refuse to condemn Trump, Velshi jumped back in approvingly to wrap up the segment:
MYSTAL: Even as you're saying that there's some Republicans who are squeamish about it, like, how many of them are on your show? How many of them are out in public really saying, "This cannot happen -- I won't vote for anything that Trump does if he does this," right? None. None say that. We're all -- they're all willing to accept the unacceptable, and that is why -- look, Trump was clear about what he was going to do. And to quote the inventor of the internet, Al Gore, we are now entering a time of consequences.
VELSHI: We are, in fact, entering a time of consequences. Thanks to both of you.
In the past, he has declared that it was necessary to "destroy" pro-Donald Trump whites in the election, derided "trifling white men" who voted Trump, and wished for frostbite to hit MAGA marchers. He also claimed that whites always choose their "trashiest" person to run for office.
Transcript follows:
MSNBC's Velshi
January 25, 2025
11:07 p.m.
ALI VELSHI: Elie, it's been a firehose of stuff going on in the federal government generally and the Department of Justice fairly specifically this week. Some have described it as a "shock and awe campaign," which might be what it is. I guess the danger is, in covering Trump 2.0, how do we deal with this? Because these things have real implications. Everything (MSNBC contributor) Joyce (Vance) just described -- people are effected by this. This is not just an abstraction.
ELIE MYSTAL, THE NATION: We tried to tell y'all. I mean, Ali, I wrote specifically about this issue -- what he was going to do to the Department of Justice -- multiple times during the election cycle because, as you pointed out in your open, this was all written down. So I don't like the "shock and awe" version of this because if you'd been paying attention, they wrote it down. They told you exactly what they were going to do and exactly how you were going to do it. And a majority of white people voted for this. This is the disgusting version of America that people want, and, oh, by the way, eggs are still more expensive. So you even get that. Great job, white folks.
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Again, this is what Trump promised, this is what white folks voted for, and this is what you normalize whenever you act like Trump is a regular, normal President who just has a different point of view than you do, right? So, like, it would be great if we could stand as one and draw a line in the sand and say, "This far, no further," but we're not going to do that. Our party is always on the back foot -- always falling back, and Republicans are such pathetic cowards.
Even as you're saying that there's some Republicans who are squeamish about it, like, how many of them are on your show? How many of them are out in public really saying, "This cannot happen -- I won't vote for anything that Trump does if he does this," right? None. None say that. We're all -- they're all willing to accept the unacceptable, and that is why -- look, Trump was clear about what he was going to do. And to quote the inventor of the internet, Al Gore, we are now entering a time of consequences.
VELSHI: We are, in fact, entering a time of consequences. Thanks to both of you.
