In the final month before the election the leftist media settled on their closing argument: A vote for Vice President Kamala Harris is the only way to save America from the “evil” “maniac” Donald Trump.
MSNBCer Jonathan Alter sneered that the “evil” Trump had the “worst character” of any President who held office. His MSNBC colleague Nicolle Wallace sounded the alarm: “Voting for Kamala Harris feels like an emergency.”
Many of them couldn’t believe the race was close as they blamed Trump’s presidential viability on America’s sexism and racism.
Some even absurdly attacked their fellow colleagues in the press for being too soft on Trump and too harsh on Harris. MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski complained about the “media coverage,” as she whined: “Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way,” and added the “disparate treatment is glaring.”
Hollywood elites were outraged as well. ABC’s late night host Jimmy Kimmel admitted Trump made him crazy as he insisted: “If you’re a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities from the final month before Election Day:
“Evil” “Sick F” Trump Has the “Worst Character” Of Any President Who Held the Office
“[Donald Trump] has the worst character of any man who has held the office of the presidency, full stop. Nobody else is even close. Richard Nixon isn’t even close….He’s just a despicable, cruel, lying person….I’m having my own American reckoning in trying to come to terms with how this country, which was founded on the idea of not just freedom and democracy, but basic decency — how we could be in this place where we have this man who lacks all of the most elemental qualities of character that the founders knew were important if we were going to have a successful republic….You can’t not do something to keep this man from coming back to office. He’s that evil, and I use that word very intentionally….This guy is a sick F.”
— MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter on MSNBC Reports, October 25.
Trump and His Supporters Shouldn’t “Get a Pass” for “Terrorizing” People
“Nobody gets a pass trashing America — Puerto Rican Americans. Nobody gets a pass degrading people. Nobody gets a pass degrading legal migrants and terrorizing people. Nobody gets a pass threatening his enemies with using the military against them. Nobody gets a pass on inciting an insurrection. Nobody gets a pass on saying he fancies Hitler and wants to have generals like his! Nobody gets a pass on insulting veterans and saying those who have died for our country are suckers and losers, except for convicted felon Donald Trump!….This is the descent into fascism if we so choose.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on ABC’s The View, October 28.
“Terrible Commentary on America” That “Delusional Maniac” Trump Can Be Elected President
Washington Post columnist Max Boot: “Trump is very close to winning the presidency again. It’s basically a coin-flip election. We don’t know how it’s going to go, but simply the fact that it’s as close as it is right now is, to me, a terrible commentary on America and a very dismaying, very dismaying augury of our future, that so many Americans seem to be so OK with this. I mean, how is this? How can we have tens of millions of our fellow citizens think it’s OK to elect this delusional maniac as president of the United States? I, you know, I just don’t get it.”
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart: “Yeah, it is baffling to me as well.”
— “First Look” show aired on Washington Post Live, October 18.
Trump Will Be the GOP’s “Stain On Our History”
“I think the larger stain on our history that we’re living through right now is Trump obviously and what he has stood for and what he has gotten away with. The idea that Donald Trump has operated within a permission structure of one of our two major parties to a point where there is just a consequence-free environment for him to operate in is one of the most appalling, I think, takeaways from this era….But, essentially, I mean, these are people who I think will, hopefully, you know, live under a very, very damning verdict of history.”
— The Atlantic staff writer Mark Leibovich on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 21.
Trump Win Will Turn GOP Into a “Kleptocracy”
“My greatest fear about this election is if Trump wins…for a generation is what they believe this is how you conduct yourself in politics, and that this will cement this for a generation. I fear the transactional nature of him could actually turn the party into a kleptocracy if we’re not careful. And one thing about political parties when they lose, they end up trying to emulate the party that wins….While Democrats have been trying to be the anti-version of this — losing two out of three there’s going to be its own reckoning inside left that could have some saying, ‘Hey, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’....whether it’s lying or exaggerating….That is what I think is on the ballot about our politics going forward for another half-generation.”
— NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press, November 3.
This Election Is “Test of Our Constitutional System”
“It is almost over. What comes next is anyone’s guess. What we do know is this. No election since the Civil War has posed such a test of our constitutional system. Whether to accept election results and the peaceful transfer of power has never been on the ballot like this. The stakes in this election are as high as it gets. The differences between the candidates are as stark as it gets.”
— Moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, November 3.
“Life and Death Decision” for Women
“I think women understand what’s at stake. They understand that this is a life and death decision. So I think you will see a really strong, robust turnout on Election Day.”
— ABC News contributor Donna Brazile discussing Kamala Harris’ turnout on ABC’s This Week, November 4.
Nicolle Wallace Wigs Out: Voting for Harris is an “Emergency”
“Voting for Hillary Clinton was easy. Voting for Joe Biden was a pleasure. Voting for Kamala Harris feels like an emergency.”
— MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, October 30.
Trump’s “Vivid,” “Racist Display” of “Dark Energy”
“Donald J. Trump’s closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement.”
— From October 27 New York Times article headlined “A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism”
“Dangerous” Trump Will Be an “American Putin,” “Threat to Our Republic”
“This is the most significant election since 1864, when if Abraham Lincoln had lost….we would’ve had a Confederacy, no abolition. So this election is as big as that….The former chief of staff to Donald Trump, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff….they both used the f-word, fascist. This is not a drill!...People have to wake up and understand our whole system is at stake in this election….He admires dictators….He wants to be a strong man. So America has to ask itself: do we want an American Putin?...This is a dangerous man!...A threat to our republic.”
— Former Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter on CNN This Morning, October 23.
Can America “Survive” Another Trump Term?
“You have said in your book, ‘I know Donald Trump’s mental imbalance. I had seen it up close. His denial and then delays when the COVID pandemic struck. His penchant for repeatedly stomping out of meetings. His foul mouth. His pounding on tables, his temper tantrums, his disrespect for our nation’s patriots, and his total separation from reality and actual events.’ How did you deal with that? And do you think this country, your country, can survive another term?”
— Host Christiane Amanpour to Rep. Nancy Pelosi on PBS’s Amanpour&Co., October 15.
If Trump Wins There Will Be “Civil War” and “There Will Be Camps”
“If Donald Trump does not win the election, he will not concede. He will proceed to try to bring us to civil war, try to drag the election through the courts, and have Mike Johnson make him president or have John Roberts make him president….There will be camps. There will be Project 2025. There could be arrests of people like Adam Schiff. There could be Nancy Pelosi being hauled off to jail.”
— MSNBC host Joy Reid from an October 15 panel discussion at the Brookings Institution, co-hosted by the leftist Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
Trump Is Getting “Darker and More Dangerous”
“He [Donald Trump] is lying. He is lying about migrants. He’s lying about crime. He’s lying about the crimes committed by immigrants. That is his closing argument. His rhetoric is only getting darker and more dangerous. And it might just be working. His base is coming home.”
— Politico White House bureau chief/MSNBC’s Way Too Early host Jonathan Lemire on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 14.
Gun-Toting Trump Supporters to Enact “Vengeance” On Minorities If He Loses
“I keep thinking back to that book, ‘How Democracies Die’ by Ziblatt and Novitsky. And they talk about the two things that are needed for democracies to die in countries that have been democratic. And one is the demonization of the other, of any other group, or kind of a minority group, and the normalization of the rhetoric of violence….And in a country with so many guns it doesn’t take very much…to imagine communities that — were Donald Trump were to lose — would see this as a, as a reason, as a giving them permission….to take out some kind of vengeance on people who didn’t vote for him.”
— MSNBC contributor/BBC correspondent Katty Kay on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 7.
Hellacious Anti-Trump Headlines
“Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.”
— Headline to October 18 The Atlantic article by Anne Applebaum.
“Trump’s closing message: Attack, divide and veer off script”
|— Politico headline to November 1 article.
Tapper’s Petty Poke at J.D. Vance
“Are you running to be Vice President of the United States or are you running to be Vice President of the red states? Because if you win….you’re gonna be Vice President of childless cat ladies. You’re gonna be Vice President of legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. You’re gonna be their Vice President too. Are you running to do that?”
— Host Jake Tapper to GOP Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance on CNN’s State of the Union, October 27.
Journalists Are Too Soft on “Lunatic” Trump and His “Utter Gibberish”
“It is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way. I don’t know the answer to the chicken-or-egg question — whether media coverage is leading public perception or vice versa — but the disparate treatment is glaring.”
— Co-host Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 25.
“Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews — so she did multiple interviews….She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews — so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as being comfortable only at scripted rallies — so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall….Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.”
— Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 25.
Berating Bret Baier for Daring to Ask Harris Tough Questions
“An embarrassing, bad-faith effort by a once-respected host [Fox News’s Bret Baier] to play to an audience of one….We witnessed a man who spent his life as a down-the-middle journalist, seeming to throw it all away for his audience of one, interrupting the Vice President awkwardly and unnecessarily.”
— Co-host Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 17.
LA Times Columnist Feels Betrayed By Own Newspaper’s Non-Endorsement
New York Times columnist/PBS contributor David Brooks: “When it seems like the owner is interfering with editorial decisions, then you have smashed the wall, you have hurt the integrity of the paper, and you may be trying to avoid retribution from Donald Trump, but at the cost of some level of integrity for your publication.”...
Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson: “It’s very frustrating as a journalist to work for a publication that won’t endorse someone when one of the candidates wants to arrest you for doing your job. It’s frustrating.”
— Discussion about Washington Post and Los Angeles Times editorial boards not offering presidential endorsements as aired on PBS NewsHour, October 25.
Calling Trump “Unfit to Lead” = Real Journalism, Not Opinion
Host Stephen Colbert: “We are back with the author of the new book War, Bob Woodward. You also say that Donald Trump is unfit to lead the country.”
Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward: “Yes.”
Colbert: “Is that journalism? Or is that your pure opinion?”
Woodward: “That is journalism.”
— CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, October 18.
Trump Biopic Not Enough of a “Hit Job,” Reagan Movie Swept Crimes “Under the Rug”
“The Apprentice isn’t the scorched-earth hit job that Donald Trump supporters have feared and others have hoped for. Nor is it the kind of bland Great Man biopic that would sweep its subject’s flaws and crimes under the rug, as in the recent Reagan.”
— Washington Post movie critic Ty Burr in October 10 movie review of The Apprentice.
Behar Uses the “F” Word to Define Trump
“Let’s talk about fascism for a second….This is the definition. It’s defined as ‘a political movement that embraces the far-right nationalism and the forceful suppression of any opposition, all overseen by an authoritarian government.’ That definition has Trump’s picture next to it in the dictionary.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, October 16.
The View Dehumanizes Trump
“We are not at a point right now to be talking about policy differences. This is not about economic difference. Because we are not running against a normal human being. We are running against Donald Trump who is an existential threat to humanity and democracy.”
— Co-host Ana Navarro on ABC’s The View, October 4.
It’s the Media’s Fault That Harris Isn’t Dominating in the Polls
“First it was Kamala’s not doing enough press. Then she goes on this huge press tour….CNN: ‘Democrats grow anxious.’ Axios: ‘blue wall blues.’ Fox: ‘Dems are scared to death.’ No, Dems are not scared to death, Dems are pumped. What I would like the press to talk a little bit more about is Trump is in hiding. He didn’t do the 60 Minutes interview. He does not want to do another debate. He’s in mental decline. Obama’s speech was captivating in Pittsburgh, yet instead of talking about that, we’re talking about what he said before the speech to black men. I think that the media has to do a much better job than what they’re doing.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 14.
Reiner Repulsed by “Insanity” of Trump Being Close in the Polls
“It’s like being in some insane asylum….We’re in a position where you have one person [Kamala Harris] who’s spent her life dedicated to public service, who’s worked hard, who has good values, is a good person. And on the other side, you’ve got a convicted felon who’s an adjudicated rapist who tried to overthrow the government and is a pathological liar. That’s the difference, and the fact that it’s a close race, to me, it’s insanity.”
— Film director/actor Rob Reiner on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, October 7.
Colbert Keeping It Classy
“We invited Kamala Harris to be our guest this evening, and she accepted. That interview in a moment. In the interest of fairness, we also invited former President Donald Trump to go [bleep] himself….She attended law school in San Francisco, where she lived with her sister, Maya, and helped her potty-train Maya’s daughter. When talking about the experience, Harris said, ‘I’m dealing with this brutal stuff, dog-eat-dog in school, and then I would come home, and we would all stand by the toilet and wave bye to a piece of [bleep].’ Yeah. And if she wins next month, we all get to have the same experience.”
— Host Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Show, October 8.
If You Are a “Reasonable Person” You Should Have “Trump Derangement Syndrome”
“I’m an optimistic person, I’m not hysterical. I laugh when people say, ‘Oh, you’ve got Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ If you’re a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome….This is a dangerous person, this is a stupid person, and that’s a bad combination.”
— ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel in an interview with host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, October 23.
