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Morning Joe RIPS Trump's Smithsonian 'Takeover' -- Obama-Biden, Hello?

June 26th, 2026 11:27 AM

In their new book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan devote considerable attention to the Trump administration’s efforts to influence Smithsonian exhibits. On a Morning Joe segment today, Haberman misleadingly framed it as Trump and his allies “wanting to leave their imprint on what art Americans can see…

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Morning Joe Downplays DSA’s Rise, Makes Fun of Chevalier Policies

June 26th, 2026 9:03 AM

In more of the aftermath of Democratic Socialist victories in New York City primaries, Thursday’s Morning Joe downplayed the rise of the DSA in Democratic politics, alike to many others in the media. While some of the show’s panelists…

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MS NOW Puffs New York DSA Radicals, Helps Them Downplay Extremism

June 25th, 2026 10:00 PM

NYC has a much more alarming meaning after the Democratic primaries this week: New York Communists. Among those victorious Democrats were Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both of whom were endorsed by the organization Democratic Socialists of America and Mayor Mamdani. MS NOW’s Wednesday evening shows All In with Chris Hayes and The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi

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MS NOW's O'Donnell Crows Over 'Donald' Baby Name Unpopularity

June 24th, 2026 8:40 PM

There haven’t been many children named Donald recently, and for those with TDS, that was reason to celebrate. It’s been a relatively slow news cycle, at least if you ignore the revelations about Dr. Anthony Fauci and the…

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Scarborough—Blame BIBI for Antisemitism Not Mamdani-Backed Antisemites

June 24th, 2026 4:39 PM

Reacting to the election results in yesterday's Democrat congressional primaries, where Mamdani-endorsed, virulently anti-Israel candidates pulled off a clean sweep, Joe Scarborough took to Morning Joe to lecture viewers on surging antisemitism in New York City. Scarborough declared, "If you wanna blame anybody... I think you have to blame Benjamin Netanyahu . . . You can blame all of…

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MS NOW's Glaude Calls It 'Evil to Me' That Elon Musk's a Trillionaire

June 24th, 2026 1:20 PM

On Monday's Money, Power and Politics, MS NOW contributor Eddie Glaude declared that it is "evil to me" that Elon Musk has become a trillionaire. His comments came as the group typically compared that to the Republican push to "cut" SNAP benefits and other federal spending.

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Trump Trying ‘Authoritarian Takeover,’ ‘Destruction’ of Constitution

June 23rd, 2026 10:46 PM

President Donald Trump, master of schadenfreude? That was what MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow suggested on Monday’s episode of The Last Word. O’Donnell, under the influence of a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, claimed that the indictments of his political opponents were all that Trump cared about.

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Haberman Relates Threats and Kirk Assassination to Minneapolis Unrest

June 23rd, 2026 9:16 PM

Amid the media tour for the new mega-book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the pair of authors appeared on MS NOW’s Morning Joe to sell their new book on the Trump Administration. In part of the interview, co-host Jonathan Lemire posed a question on Trump’s feelings on “mortality,” especially after the Kirk assassination…

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STUDY: Nearly 7 Hours Wasted on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

June 23rd, 2026 1:49 PM

Thanks to the 24-hour news cycle, a nonsensical or unimportant story need only capture the attention of a few journalists in order for it to receive an absurdly disproportionate amount of coverage. Such is the case with the algae-riddled Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on TV news, which over the past week, has gobbled up nearly seven hours of airtime on liberal cable (CNN and MS NOW) and…

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Scarborough Defends Israel Anger at U.S. Restraint, With Huge Asterisk

June 22nd, 2026 2:23 PM

On Monday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough defended the Israeli perspective on the Trump administration’s calls for restraint against Iran and Hezbollah. But true to form, he felt compelled to lead with a condemnation of Benjamin Netanyahu. “For Americans who don’t understand exactly what’s going on here,” Scarborough said, “yes, it’s very easy to be — I’m just speaking for myself — to be a…

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No MS NOW Pushback As Obeidallah Calls JD 'The Softer Side of Fascism'

June 22nd, 2026 6:12 AM

On Saturday night's The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, contributor Dean Obeidallah delivered yet another unhinged smear, declaring Vice President JD Vance the "nice, warm, softer side of fascism." Notably, none of the hosts pushed back on the outrageous accusation. The segment began with a discussion of supposed Democrat messaging problems on inflation. After playing a clip of Vance on The View…

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MS NOW: Israel Blocks Peace, Ignores Hezbollah Killing IDF Soldiers

June 21st, 2026 6:43 AM

Co-host Jonathan Capehart opened Saturday's The Weekend on MS NOW show by branding Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon as a “roadblock to a permanent peace deal with Iran.” Capehart highlighted Lebanese casualties from strikes that came “just hours after a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah.” MS NOW contributor Inzaman Rashid, reporting from Dubai, piled on. He declared that…

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MS NOW Gushes How Americans 'Have Inherited' Obama's Unfinished Legacy

June 20th, 2026 9:52 AM

MS NOW aired a two-hour special hosted by Michele Norris with the presumptuous title of Hope Comes Home, which featured a tour of the new Obama Presidential Center and interviews with Barack and Michelle. During the show, Norris would suggest that if there was any real criticism to be made of Obama, it was that he was not left-wing enough, but the good news is that the American people…

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Morning Joe Fawns Over 'Jubilant' Obama Center Opening

June 19th, 2026 9:28 PM

After the Obama Presidential Center’s opening on Thursday was met with loving coverage from most news outlets, Friday’s Morning Joe joined in fawning over the event. MS NOW reporter Nnamdi Egwuonwu called the event “jubilant” and even said he was “heartbroken” when he found tickets were sold out.