On her way out the door, fired MSNBC host Joy Reid trashed Donald Trump for delivering “fascism” to America. She also attacked Elon Musk for bringing “apartheid” politics to the United States.
Over on CBS, 60 Minutes correspondent and ex-Evening News anchor Scott Pelley declared Trump was “in defiance of the Constitution.”
This past month also saw MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough scare his audience by declaring DOGE cuts were going to cause more plane crashes and not just kill “your family” but “people across the globe.”
Over on ABC’s The View, Joy Behar labeled Musk an “enemy of the United States” and Sunny Hostin called those who questioned wokeness “ungodly.”
In Hollyweird it’s awards season, which means we got the usual lectures from the entertainment elites about “greed,” global warming and a “white nationalist coup” under Trump.
The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from the leftist media and Hollywood from February:
Joy Reid’s Farewell: “Fascism Isn’t Just Coming, It’s Already Here”
“Happy Monday, everyone. And we begin tonight with what I think is the question: when you are in the midst of a crisis and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist — when fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here?”
— Host Joy Reid opening her final show on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, February 24.
South African Elon Musk Has Brought Apartheid Politics to the United States
“Some of the things that Elon Musk is doing, and it is notable to me that the people leading this movement are largely South African, white South Africans, people who had a fascist government that they grew up under in South Africa, which was the apartheid government, and they are taking and exporting their politics here. Peter Thiel. Uh, you know, Elon Musk. There’s a bunch of them, like a little claque of them, and they have Donald Trump, right?”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s TheReidOut, February 24.
Musk’s Cuts Will Cause Plane Crashes and Kill Your Family
“What the Trump Administration is providing Democrats right now are those cuts. They’re giving them the punchline to, ‘Oh, they’re gonna cut billionaires tax cuts, but guess what they’re gonna do?’ They’re going to take away medical research that saved your daughter or saved somebody in your family. They’re going to take away and fire people in the FAA. So, those plane crashes that you’re seeing, you’re gonna see more of them.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 19.
Elon Musk “Literally Killing People Across the Globe”
“When are we going to finally see the lawsuits move on USAID and actually an injunction that stops that, all of those actions right now that are literally, unless the reports are exaggerated, literally killing people across the globe right now, this morning, this instant?”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 6.
Something “Very Strange” About “Richest Man” Slashing Programs
“This is the case….of the richest man in the world and there’s something very strange about him slashing programs that prevent starvation and hunger and poverty in much of the world.”
— NPR White House correspondent and ABC News contributor Asma Khalid on ABC’s This Week, February 9.
“Too Soon to Tell” How Much Trump “Is In Defiance of the Constitution”
“It’s too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law.”
— Correspondent Scott Pelley on CBS’s 60 Minutes, February 16.
Hardwood Hatred: Elon’s “Sympathy for Racists and Nazis” is “Damaging” America
“Your combination of aggressive ignorance, malign motivation, and sympathy for racists and Nazis is badly damaging our country also, Just Say No to drugs.”
— February 17 X.com post by former CNN White House correspondent and CNBC correspondent John Harwood in response to Elon Musk.
PBS: Trump’s “Gulf of America” Ban on AP is Attack On “First Amendment”
“The White House, by going after AP for an editorial choice, is going directly at the First Amendment. It is going directly at the freedom of the press. And it is not coincidental that they are going after AP. AP is extremely influential. They’re also kind of straight down the line. They are not a partisan news outlet in any way.”
— NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith on PBS’s News Hour, February 17.
Brennan Blames Holocaust on Free Speech
“He [Vice President J.D. Vance] was standing in a country [Germany] where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.”
— Moderator Margaret Brennan to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on CBS’s Face the Nation, February 16.
Donald Trump Should’ve Been Impeached “One Minute” Into His Presidency
“Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural address for violating the emoluments clause….I think Democrats should start having a different guy come out every week and introduce new articles of impeachment, just to inspire people and show them that we’re doing something and let the record show for history we are fighting against this.”
— SiriusXM host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, January 31.
Trump Is a “Scumbag,” “Racist Piece of Garbage”
“Donald Trump’s a scumbag. I mean, I think we can say that. He’s a vile, racist piece of garbage. He happens to be President of the United States, so we have to pay attention. If he wasn’t, he’d be one of vile people out there in this country.”
— MSNBC contributor Dean Obeidallah on MSNBC’s Ayman, February 1.
Trump Can Take a Nap While He Lets “Enemy of the United States” Elon Do His Job
“Elon Musk kisses his [President Donald Trump’s] butt and strokes his tiny ego or big ego, whatever it is….He can take a nap while the guy who was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid….I think this is just perfectly wonderful for Trump. He can take a nap and let this foreigner, foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the United States do his job!”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 27.
Un-American That Trump Isn’t in Prison
Co-host Joy Behar: “That doesn’t sound fair to me. That doesn’t sound American to me….If the person [Donald Trump] gets all the charges dropped from the guy [former Special Counsel] Jack Smith] just because he wins an election, is that American?”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 20.
Joy Behar Wants to Re-Name America!
“This country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they name the country after an Italian white man, Amerigo Vespucci. That’s what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci. A white European. Why is it named after a white man, when it was settled by indigenous people?”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 13.
Opposing Wokeness “Is Ungodly” and “Not Christian!”
“It angers me when people are, like, ‘this woke stuff's got to go.’ That’s telling me that you don’t care about my lived experience! You don’t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community! You don’t care about the oppression of the disabled! You don’t care about the oppression of immigrants! You don’t care about your fellow neighbor, and that is ungodly! That is not Christian!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, February 24.
Plea to Stop the “White Nationalist Coup” from “Taking Over” This “Fascist Country”
“If you really are serious, okay, about stopping the white nationalist coup taking over the country, have you heard of it? Right, if you’re serious about stopping this, how about amplifying black history because black people, we’ve been in a fascist country this whole time.”
— Writer/director Justin Simien accepting an award for MGM+ docuseries Hollywood Black at 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, February 22.
Hollywood Elitist Blames Humanity’s “Greed” for Natural Disasters
“Wake up, humans! We can’t let greed continue to deny global warming!”
— SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher at 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards, February 23.
Trump Is a “First Ballot Hall of Fame Racist”
Former CNN host/comedian W. Kamau Bell: “Let’s be clear: Trump has one of the greatest resumes of racism in the history of racism. Yes.”
Host Stephen Colbert: “He’s an all-star.”
Bell: “He’s a first ballot hall of fame racist. He is the LeBron James of racism.”
— CBS Late Show with Stephen Colbert, February 5.
Movie About Trump Has Taken On a “Harrowing Resonance” About A “Very, Living Danger”
Host Christiane Amanpour: “When you see it [The Apprentice] now, since the election, what do you think of it?”
Actor Jeremy Strong: “I think it’s taken on a whole other — sort of — harrowing resonance….Seeing it now, to me, it’s about a very, living danger. So I find it troubling to see the film now.”
— CNN International/PBS’s Amanpour&Co., February 12.
