Michael Steele

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele claims Trump plans to put migrants in "concentration camps." April Ryan says that Trump views black and brown migrants at the southern border as a "problem," but welcomes migrants entering the US on visas, because they come from countries like Ukraine and "look like him." Fact: more than 8 out of 10 people entering the US on H1B1 visas…

Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Craziest Analysis Award. 

Michael Steele and Symone Sanders, co-hosts of MSNBC's The Weekend, mock Donald Trump's appointment of Mark Burnett as a special envoy to the UK. Steele and Sanders dismiss Burnett as simply having been the producer of The Apprentice. In fact, Burnett, a British native who served in the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, has been the massively successful producer of…

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.

MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the three co-hosts and two guests all expressed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to supplant Gerry Connolly as the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee. Julian Castro hailed AOC's "fighting spirit." Michael Steele and Symone Sanders took some not-so-subtle shots at Nancy Pelosi for her support of Connolly. 

Appearing on MSNBC's The Weekend, ex-Republican Joe Walsh, a fierce Trump critic, said that Trump likes Pete Hegseth because he is a "pretty face," and that "Trump doesn't give a shit that Pete Hegseth has a history of treating women like shit. Because that's what Donald Trump has done. Trump doesn't care that he's an abuser and a harasser of women, because that is what Trump has been."

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…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders attacks Nancy Pelosi. After a clip is played of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries questioning whether Trump's cabinet nominations are the best the country has to offer, twice mentioning RFK, Jr. by name, Sanders says: "That is why he the Leader. And that's what Speaker Emerita Pelosi should have been doing with her little…

On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders tears into Nancy Pelosi. Mocking her vaunted vote-counting ability, Sanders asks, "where's her calculator now?" And she blasts Pelosi for pushing for an open primary. Sanders also rips the strategists who "fleeced" the Kamala campaign. She suggests they should be exiled, as Hillary's 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook was…

Shades of Joe Biden in 2012, telling a largely black audience that Mitt Romney's "gonna put y'all back in chains." On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele teed up Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of The Squad, to suggest that Trump would take America back to the era of Jim Crow. Pressley upped the ante, saying: "We're on the precipice of going back again to Jim Crow—…

On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele says that "young brothers" in cities like Detroit, Atlanta, and Philly have become part of a "bro culture" in which they just want women to be "quiet and pregnant." He riffed off Michelle Obama describing herself as "frustrated" and "angry" at voters who let Trump's shortcomings slide, but demand that Kamala "dazzle us at every…

On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele -- a former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project -- took the occasion of Kamala Harris's release of health records to mock Donald Trump. Steele sneered that Trump "looks like Wally the Walrus" and is "old as dirt." Steele speculated that in his "little brain," Trump might have "brain worms,"…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, Georgetown law professor Michele Goodwin somehow suggests that post-Dobbs law limiting abortion are the modern-day equivalent of slavery and Jim Crow laws, including those restricting the ability of African-Americans to play chess and checkers.