The leftists in the news media and Hollywood live in a bizarre world of their own where they believe that President Donald Trump has turned America into a fascistic “dictatorship,” where people are being disappeared and MAGA supporters are to be feared more than would-be presidential assassins.
This past month saw MSNBCer Tiffany Cross assert that the government was “disappearing people” and “transporting them to concentration camps.” Rachel Maddow told her viewers that Trump is “consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane admitted he was more scared of Trump supporters than the shooter who tried to kill the President: “For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America….I got put on trauma leave, not because….of the shooting, but because….the reaction of the people.”
Actor Alan Cumming attacked Trump for turning the U.S. into a “a country that has just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis.”
The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from journalists and celebrities from the past month:
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“We are Normalizing” the “Disappearing of People” and Sending Them to “Concentration Camps”
“We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We are normalizing, we’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign….Everybody who says, ‘Oh this is not the America I know,’ I can guarantee you it is the America I know.”
— Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross on CNN’s Newsnight, July 8.
Trump Is “Consolidating Dictatorship In Our Country”
“Life in the United States is profoundly changing. It’s profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
— Host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, August 4.
Scott MacFarlane: It Wasn’t the Shooting of Trump That Horrified Me, It Was His Supporters
“For those of us there [assasination attempt], it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was — I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could, you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.”
— CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane on The Chuck ToddCast podcast, July 16.
MAGA Wouldn’t Even Consider It an “Insult” to Be Called “Fascists”
“I think about the fact that JD Vance once said that Donald Trump could be America’s Hitler. Who knew that he meant that as a compliment, right?...The second half of that sentence might have been, and ‘I will be his [Hermann] Goering.’...I actually don’t think at this point that, that the people in the MAGA movement would even consider it an insult to call them fascists.”
— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on The Joy Reid Show podcast, July 9.
Where’s Trump on Scale of One to Mussolini?
“You’ve written that authoritarians don’t take over all at once, but ‘gradually, over time, concentrate their power and consolidate their power.’ If this is a continuum, if, say, [Benito] Mussolini is a ten, where are we? Are we at a two or a three when we look at a world history of extreme strongmen like Mussolini, like others in world history, what number are we at now?”
— Co-host Danny Cevallos to historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, August 3.
Republicans “Lost Their Souls” to Support Trump
“These are people who’ve lost their souls. And, you know, ultimately it’s for a political power that may or may not last more than, you know, two or four years. And you got to ask, you know, was it really worth it for them?”
— The New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser on PBS’s Washington Week With The Atlantic, July 24.
GOP Has Turned into “Fascist Party,” “Cult of the Great Leader” That Is Attacking Our “Democracy”
“There is no Republican party. There is a fascist party that is supporting the cult of the great leader and, as a result, they are turning us into a police state….This is one giant human rights atrocity in the making. If this were another country, we would be putting sanctions on them….If this isn’t a wakeup call for the American people that we have one normal party and one fascist party that is not only attacking our democracy, but attacking our health, our security, our nutrition — I don’t know what will.”
— Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on MSNBC’s Velshi, July 6.
Jonathan Capehart: I Can’t Be “Patriotic” When the Country Is “Engulfed In Flames”
“It became clear, as time went along, and especially when he [Jeff Bezos] chose a new leader for the [Washington Post Opinion] section, that there was just not going to be any room for a voice like mine, especially when we were told that we would have to be unapologetically patriotic in talking about the positive things happening in the country. How can you talk about the positive things happening in the country when the rest of the house is engulfed in flames and the foundation is flooding?”
— PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on why he left The Washington Post, as aired on PBS’s News Hour, August 1.
Chuck Todd: Trump Administration Has Turned CBS Into “State TV”
“Brendan Carr at the FCC, who has now decided to just blow up the First Amendment, and has made CBS state TV. The restrictions that have been put on CBS now make it state television.…He wants a bias monitor. Well, biased through whose prism? Is CBS, is he gonna look out to make sure CBS does a percentage of programming that’s communist, a percentage of programming that’s fascist, a percentage of programming that’s MAGA, a percentage of programming that’s progressive, a percentage of programming that is quote ‘centrist,’ that is not, who’s, what are his qualifications?”
— Former anchor of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd on his podcast, July 28.
Katie Couric: We Need “Traditional Media” to Battle Trump’s “S*** Show”
“For everybody shitting on mainstream media, you know, they depend on a lot of mainstream outlets to get their information and then to report it….It underscores the importance of more traditional media, and I think we need it all, to be honest especially at this moment in our history and what’s happening in our country and the shit show that is the Trump administration.”
— Former NBC Today co-host/CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Next Question with Katie Couric podcast, July 9.
Connie Chung: Fox Anchors Need “Ankle Monitors”
“I think they should be putting ankle bracelets on — ankle monitors on certain anchors at certain cable stations in prime time. Those are the culprits.”
— Ex-CBS anchor Connie Chung on CNN News Central, July 25.
Republicans Celebrate After “Throwing Millions of Needy Families to the Wolves”
“Today, the hangover from the Republicans’ unseemly celebration after throwing millions of needy families to the wolves, slashing health and food benefits. Those lawmakers will now have to explain all of this to voters back home, many of whom are, to put it bluntly, screwed.”
— Host Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s The Weekend, July 5.
Trump’s Bill “Ensures a Huge Transfer of Wealth” From Poor to the “Richest”
“The president’s quest to remake America is well and truly on with the passage of his sweeping domestic policy bill. It’ll mean major and significant changes to the lives of most Americans. The bill ensures a huge transfer of wealth from the less well off to the richest, a massive surge in funding for ICE, millions of people unable to access Medicaid and much more. Yet, poll after poll shows the bill is unpopular with most Americans.”
— Host Christiane Amanpour on PBS’s Amanpour & Co., July 10.
Vladimir Duthiers Fears a European-Style Colonization of the Moon
Co-host Vladimir Duthiers: “We know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet. Should we be trying to colonize [the moon] and saying that there’s a keep-out zone that not other countries can participate in having?”
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Well, the real problem with the colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there, right? There are no moon beings that we’re displacing.”
— CBS Mornings Plus, August 6.
U.S. Isn’t “Fit to Host” World Cup Because Trump is “Trampling Human Rights”
“I, for one, don’t think that this country, under this administration, is really fit to host the World Cup or fit to host the Olympics coming up….FIFA has an entire section about human rights, and yet Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, had the nerve to embrace President Trump the other day at the championship game of the Club World Cup, someone who does not stand for human rights but instead is trampling human rights.”
— Washington Post columnist, ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, July 14.
Sunny Hostin Warns: “There Will Be a Reckoning” for ICE Agents
“They [ICE agents] don’t show I.D.s. They’re not dressed appropriately, they’re not flagged, and they’re masked. So, in my world, if you mask yourself because you don’t want to be seen, because you don’t want to be seen — because there will be a reckoning for some of the actions that law enforcement, actual law enforcement have done!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 11.
Trump’s Distractions Are All Part of His Plan For a “Dictatorship”
“These things that seem to be a distraction. That he [Donald Trump] seems to be doing this and he seems to be doing that, he seems to be doing that. This is all part of a plan towards a step towards authoritarianism, towards a dictatorship, towards fascism.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 17.
CBS’s Firing of Stephen Colbert Is the “Dismantling of Our Democracy”
“It’s very clear that if it [CBS canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert] is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution….If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 22.
Trump Will “Arrest Every Artist That Disagrees With Him”
“Americans should stand up and say no way. You’re not going to silence us. You don’t have the right to silence us....We the people have the right to speak up against atrocities which are happening on a daily basis. ICE, his [Donald Trump] own personal Gestapo. What will it take, America? What will it take? He’s gonna arrest every artist that disagrees with him….Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Be brave. Be Stephen Colbert. Speak truth to power.”
— Comedian/actress and former ABC’s The View co-host Rosie O’Donnell on her TikTock feed, July 18.
Stephen Sucks Up to Kamala
“I will always treasure your debate with Trump….That was one of the greatest rhetorical performances I’ve ever seen. You smoked him like a ham….You warned everyone about the future under our present president. You said he would prosecute his political enemies, he would cut Medicaid and Medicare, he would ignore court orders, he would alienate our allies, he would give massive tax cuts to the rich. And I know you’re not here to say, ‘I told you so,’ but would you like to?”
— Host Stephen Colbert to former Vice President Kamala Harris on CBS’s The Late Show, August 1.
“There was actually a lot of hope associated with your campaign, and there was a lot, there was a lot of promise that we might actually not only keep this absolute barbarian out of the White House but also we might actually make progress as a country with the type of people that we wanted to see in office and a younger, more vital revived political consciousness in America.”
— Host Stephen Colbert to former Vice President Kamala Harris as posted on CBS’s The Late Show’s YouTube page, July 31.
America Under Trump = Concentration Camps and “Crimes Against Humanity on a Daily Basis”
“America, how are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? I mean how, are you doing aside from being a country that has just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Aside from all that, are you okay?”
— Actor Alan Cumming substitute hosting on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, July 21.
GOP Is a “Fascist” Party That Supports Trump’s “Gestapo”
“I wonder if you are the GOP anymore, you know. You’re something different now. Burgeoning fascist America party. Almost fascist America party. Could be fascist America party. Or just the fascist America party, you know. What’s happening is not American. What’s happening with this Gestapo that he [Donald Trump] gets to go out, his own SS.”
— Comedian/actress and former ABC’s The View co-host Rosie O’Donnell on her TikTok feed, July 11.
Whoopi Goldberg Accuses DOGE of Starving Children: “Are They Just Being Bastards?”
“They [The Atlantic] are reporting that the administration is set to incinerate 500 metric tons of food that was supposed to be sent overseas. That’s enough to feed 1.5 million starving children. Now, you should ask yourself why? Was cruelty the point? Was Elon just trying to, you know, skinny up the government or were they just being bastards?”
— Co-host Whoopi Goldberg on ABC’s The View, July 16.
Charlamagne Wishes Death on Trump: Put Him In Retirement Home Run By Andrew Cuomo
“I’ve reached my diagnosis: this guy [Donald Trump] needs to be put into a retirement home immediately, okay? And hopefully it’s one run by Andrew Cuomo, alright.”
— Charlamagne Tha God substitute hosting on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, July 22.
Smearing Trump’s Streaming Platform as Racist
“Trump’s media company has just made their streaming platform, Truth+, available worldwide. They also announced that Truth+ will be the first streaming network to call BET+ the N-word. In all fairness, I looked it up, and they do have some great shows on Truth+ like The Amazing Racist, Friday Night Whites, Third Reich From The Sun, Illegal Alien vs. Predator, The Search for OJ’s Gold, Dog The Bounty Hunter’s Roadkill Kitchen, Rupaul’s Normal Guys Dressed in Khakis Race, Dumb[Bleep] Dynasty, and White-ish.”
— Actor Anthony Anderson substitute hosting on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, July 8.
PBS Like the “Declaration of Independence” for “Communications World”
CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.”
Documentarian Ken Burns: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world.”
— CBS’s Face the Nation, July 6.
