Elitist Media Wish Death on Trump, Predict He Will Cause the Apocalypse

Geoffrey Dickens
October 9th, 2026 4:55 PM

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The elitist media are turning up the hate rhetoric the closer we get to the midterms. 

MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow claimed President Donald Trump was “intervening” to make sure an “AI Apocalypse” will “kill” us all. Her MS NOW colleague Joe Scarborough predicted that “our grandchildren” will look back at Trump’s ICE agents the same way we looked at “internment camps in World War II.” The New York Times’ Michelle Cottle actually blamed Trump in the Cornell rape case. 

This past month we also saw Hollyweird types spew ugliness at Trump. CBS’s The Big Bang Theory producer Chuck Lorre told a crowd at a Los Angeles charity awards show: “I wake up every morning to turn on CNN to see if the President of the United States had a heart attack while straining to take a dump.” How charitable! 

Meanwhile, Hollyweird actors Robert De Niro and Mark Ruffalo ranted and raved at Trump to keep his “f***ing hands off our vote!” 

The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month:

 

Rachel Maddow: Trump Is Ensuring that AI Can Kill Us All 

 

 

“So, Trump moved explicitly to make sure no human can interfere with robots’ ability to kill us. So, it’s, like, been hard, I think, to imagine, ‘How is it that the A.I. Apocalypse would happen?’ ‘How is it that A.I. might kill us?’ Well, the really easy thing to imagine is them using military weapons to kill us, and Trump is intervening to make sure they can.”
— MS NOW host Rachel Maddow on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, September 29. 

 

New York Times’s Michelle Cottle Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case

 

 

“We can go to the president for this one. I mean, we are in a moment in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid.”
— New York Times Opinion writer Michelle Cottle discussing Cornell University rape case as aired on ABC’s This Week, October 4.

 

Joe Scarborough: “Our Grandchildren” Will Look Back at ICE Agents the Same Way We Looked at “Internment Camps in WWII”...

 

 

“They [ICE agents] will pay for the laws they’ve broken….I think historians will look back, and our grandchildren, children and grandchildren will read this the same way we read about the internment camps during World War II.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, September 15.

 

...“Dehumanization” From the White House Leading to Fathers, Mothers, Church Members and Children to “Be Beaten”  

 

 

“That dehumanization coming from the White House, coming from politicians, is what allows our fathers, our mothers, our workers, our church members to be beaten, to be battered, to be thrown in concentration camps. I’m sorry, not concentration camps, internment centers. To have children thrown in internment centers.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, September 28.

 

Mara Gay: This Isn’t About Border Security, It’s About “Keeping America White”

 

 

“I think that there’s also just a dawning awareness that this is not about border security at all. This is not about border security. This is about keeping America white. And this is about cruelty. And this is about, I think, lawlessness.”
— New York Times Opinion staff writer Mara Gay on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, September 25.

 

Laura Barron Lopez’s Loaded Questions On Trump’s “Authoritarianism” 

 

 

“Mayor, to you first, what’s your response to President Trump banning outlets from the White House grounds? Did you challenge him at all about this in your meeting with him? Historians and legal scholars have called it textbook authoritarianism. And Mr. President, are you banning outlets like MS NOW, CNN and Politico in order to distract from the Iran war and high gas prices?” 
— MS NOW correspondent Laura Barron Lopez’s questions to President Donald Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani at joint press conference, September 21.

 

Trump TV is “Reminiscent of What You Would Find in North Korea”

 

 

“TrumpTV has so far aired Trump’s inauguration, his new helipad dedication, which, by the way, because there was no pool and no audio, right? His speech to the UN. It’s a weird sort of form of state TV. I mean, right now, with everything going on, people want to rewatch his inauguration? It’s kind of reminiscent of what you would find in North Korea.” — Host Erin Burnett on CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront, September 22.

 

Brian Stelter Whines About His Leftist Cronies at CNN, MS NOW, Politico Being Temporarily Displaced from White House Press Room 

“There’s an old saying….that press freedom is your freedom….What are we going through in America? We’re going through a situation where we’re seeing examples of democratic backsliding. Yes, this is a democracy, but there are times it’s been a healthier democracy. Backsliding is real, and scholars who study autocratic behavior say they see it happening every day, coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. So, right now, the last week or so, we’ve seen it again very clearly. The American press is in a fight to protect its fundamental rights.”
— CNN media analyst Brian Stelter discussing removal of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House press room, as aired on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, September 24. 

 

Trump “Taking a Page” from China’s Dictator Xi Jinping

“In the next several days, the president is going to host China’s president XI Jinping at the White House.  China, of course, the president of China, Xi Jinping, who President Trump has shared openly his admiration for China, a country that has a long history of repressing independent thinkers. The press, broadly, it just does not exist. So, it’s notable that as the president welcomes XI here, he’s sort of taking a page from Xi Jinping and from China here. You’ve studied authoritarian leaders. Is this what the president is, is sort of trying to replicate?”
— Host Peter Alexander to Rachel Maddow on MS NOW’s State of Play, September 19.

 

Chris Matthews: Trump’s Best Friends Are Communists 

 

 

“Now look at Trump. Look who’s guilty of that. His best friends in the world are China and North Korea. And the guy who began his career as a Stasi officer in East Germany and has now been trying to rebuild the Soviet empire, Vladimir Putin, that’s who his friends are not, alas — not Canada, not Europe, not NATO. His friends are communists.”
— Former MSNBC Hardball host on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, September 15. 

 

“Deranged” and Depraved Donald Trump Is the “Champion of American Degradation” 

 

 

“Well, the deranged depravity of Donald Trump has delivered more degradation to this country than any other person in our history has come close to delivering. Donald Trump is the champion of American degradation, and there is no other single individual in our history who we can point to who has visited such overwhelming degradation on this country. Not even close! There isn’t a close second.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, September 16.

 

Katy Tur Twists Trump’s Words: Why Would He Say It’s Totally Worth It to Let 16 Million Americans Die?

 

 

“What he did last night was different, even for him. He told thousands of Nebraskans that Iran has the capability to bomb an American city and then told them, go ahead, quote, ‘let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego.’ This is a very small price to pay. That’s verbatim. The metropolitan area of San Diego has a population of 3.3 million. Los Angeles? 12.9. That is 16 million people that the president just cast aside…Why would he do that? What does he get out of all but saying it’s totally worth it to let 16 million Americans die?” 
— Host Katy Tur on MS NOW’s The Moment with Katy Tur, October 6. 

 

Eddie Glaude: JD Vance Might Be Tired of Being Called a Racist, But He’s Not Tired of Being a Racist

 

 

Host Antonia Hylton, after playing a clip: “So that is the Vice President of the United States saying, ‘We were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.’”
Contributor Eddie Glaude: “He’s tired of being called a racist – he’s not necessarily tired of being racist.”
— MS NOW’s The Assignment, September 12.

 

Gayle King When Told Lindsay Clancy Trial Holdout Juror is Black: “I Have to Sit With That, For Just a Second”

 

 

Co-host Gayle King: “One person of color [on the jury]? Was the person of color a woman or a man?”
Lindsay Clancy trial juror Paula Devlin: “A man.”
King: “A man? Is the holdout juror a person - a black man?”
Devlin: “Yes.”
King: “A black man is the holdout juror?”
Devlin: “Yes.”
King: “Whoa! I have to sit with that, for just a second.” 
— CBS Mornings, September 11.

 

Kristen Welker Assures That Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Is Not a Communist Because He Said So! 

 

 

“Someone who President Trump, by the way, is trying to argue is a communist. He says no, he is a capitalist. He said that on this program.”
— Host Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press, September 27.

 

Sunny Hostin Brags She Was Holdout Juror Who Kept Killer Out of Prison

 

 

Co-host Sunny Hostin: “The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it’s well established. And I thought absolutely that she [Lindsay Clancy] was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. And the reason I felt that – I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don’t know if people remember it, The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park. It was in 199-”
Co-host Joy Behar: “The guy who ate the victims?”
Hostin: “Yes!..He did not mean to kill her, and once he killed her, he panicked. He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts, tried to commit the perfect crime, and then fed – ”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin: “And you got this guy off?!”...
Hostin: “That’s how much I believe in the insanity defense. And he fed her body parts to the unhoused.”
— ABC’s The View, September 22. 

 

Producer Chuck Lorre: I Wake Up Every Morning to Turn On CNN to Find Out If Trump Died From a Heart Attack

 

 

“The burden of my profession demands that I take this opportunity to say a few words about that bloated orange piece of sh*t in the White House....I’d love to express my gratitude to all the people who’ve devoted their lives to making Project Angel Food an oasis for those in need. That would be my preference. But because I’m a comedy writer, I have no choice but to explain how I wake up every morning to turn on CNN to see if the President of the United States had a heart attack while straining to take a dump.”
— CBS’s Big Bang Theory producer Chuck Lorre accepting an award at Project Angel Food’s Angel Awards in Los Angeles, September 26.

 

Robert De Niro to Donald Trump: Keep Your F***ing Hands Off Our Vote!

 

 

“When the weak and spineless Republicans in the House and Senate won’t protect our rights. What do we say to them? Keep your f***ing hands off our votes! When the Supreme Court rubber stamps voter suppression? What do we say to them? Hands off our vote! When Trump’s Department of Justice threatens election officials, demands voter rolls, and seizes ballots. What do we say to them? F***ing hands off our vote! When masked and armed ICE thugs storm our polling places? What do we say to them? Keep your f***ing hands off our vote! And when that coward, that f***ing piece of sh*t Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? [Keep] your f***ing hands off our vote!”
— Actor Robert De Niro at Indivisible’s Protect the Vote event, October 4. 

 

Mark Ruffalo: We Got To Get This Dumb-Ass Out of Office!

 

 

“Friends this midterm election is going to be one of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes. I mean we always hear that but this is the one. We gotta get this dumb-ass, fool-ass tired-ass, lame-ass, duck-ass out of office! We got to make him a lame duck! We have to stop his policies now! Another two years of this and who knows what he’ll be doing? He’s calling to throw Democrats out of the country and he means it! The guy means everything he says. I  know we’re all tired. We are so tired, but we can’t give up now  We got the ball on the two yard line and we got to run it in! And then we got to keep running! We got to run the January! We got to make sure our people get seated! They’re gonna try and stop them. They’re gonna try and stop us. They’re gonna try and stop us from taking our country back, and we’re not gonna let them!  Trump, we’re not letting ya! Hands off! Hands off! Hands off! Hands off our fucking vote!...Yeah! I’m gonna Hulk out!” 
— Actor Mark Ruffalo at Indivisible’s Protect the Vote event, October 4. 

 

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