Alicia Menendez

On Saturday's episode of The Weekend, there was a discussion of the decision to move the inauguration inside given the frigid weather in DC. When Michael Steele wondered why the inauguration date couldn't be moved back to March, as it was in the past, Symone Sanders gave a concise answer: "the Constitution." Steele rudely responded: What was that? No, the inauguration was held in March right…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the hosts, and in particular Michael Steele, downplay and dump on Mike Johnson and Donald Trump's achievement in securing a first-ballot victory for Johnson as Speaker. But panelists Julie Tsirkin and Eugene Daniels are more fair 'n balanced, with Daniels describing the achievement as "impressive."

There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, in a discussion of the plan of DOGE leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to downsize government,  Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) says: "For too long, Democrats were about finding some win-win framing. And you know what, sometimes there's a villain. Sometimes there's a bad guy. And you got to punch him in the mouth and fight for your people. We need more of that in…

To comment on Trump's cabinet nominees, Sunday's episode of MSNBC's The Weekend has Chuck Rocha, a Democrat strategist, as a guest.  In his previous position as a senior union official, Rocha had been convicted of one count of felony embezzlement, and “acknowledged responsibility for the other 17 counts." Rocha compared Trump's nominees to the contents of a "junk drawer."  

Early Friday, the MSNBC hosts of The Weekend disrespected the was firefighter Corey Comperatore who lost his life in a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Democrat Symone Sanders described that the tribute to Comperatore at the RNC was a “prop” that “sickened” her.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor claims that Biden plays chess, whereas Trump, at best, plays Hungry Hippos. Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend chips in to suggest Uno might be a better fit for Trump.  Sanders-Townsend claims that Biden's performance at the G7 summit refuted any notion that he might be "a little too old" for the job, thus ignoring a video of a doddering Biden wandering off…

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez tees up Michael Cohen, paraphrasing what Cohen had told Nicolle Wallace the day before, to say that he'll never get peace so long as Donald Trump is "with us," i.e., alive. 

The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend expresses its great frustration over voters not being sufficiently scared by Trump's rhetoric, and thus not stampeded into supporting Biden. The panel describes voters as being "numbed," not paying attention, and needing to be shaken by the shoulders and told to "snap out of it!"

On MSNBC's The Weekend, hosts and guests alike criticize President Biden for not attempting to stack the Supreme Court. Their criticism comes in response to oral arguments in the case regarding presidential immunity which led the panel to fear that the conservative majority might be planning to expand presidential immunity. 

On The Weekend, the MSNBC show she co-anchors, Symone Sanders-Townsend alleges that there was "a little sexism, a little racism" behind the investigation into Fani Willis' relationship with Nathan Wade, and that if it has been some many named "Frank" having a relationship with "Susie," it wouldn't have happened.

On The Weekend, the MSNBC show she co-anchors, Alicia Menendez says of Joe Biden: "As someone who experiences a ton of existential dread, I hope that I am this prolific in my 70s and getting this much done. It gives me some sense of calm."

On Deadline White House, MSNBC's Katie Phang says that being a friend of E. Jean Carroll doesn't color her legal analysis. Phang goes on to claim that Carroll "would have been happy to just get her day in court" against Donald Trump, and that rather than the multi-million-dollar awards, "maybe the best part of the experience was just having that moment of being able to tell her story to a jury…

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, Harry Litman, a former Bill Clinton appointee as a US Attorney, tells substitute host Alicia Menendez that Donald Trump, if elected in 2024, "There's no one he won't target out of a sense of revenge. Think of a guy with a machine gun, spraying everyone."