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'It's F****** Scary,' De Niro Compares Trump To Hitler On MSNBC

May 3rd, 2024 2:22 PM

For some reason, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle decided to interview actor Robert De Niro on the Thursday edition of The 11th Hour. On multiple occasions, De Niro would compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and himself and his compatriots to Jews in Nazi Germany, claiming “it's [bleep] scary.”

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Kimmel Mourns Biden 'Not Getting Credit' Versus 'Hair Mussolini'

February 22nd, 2024 10:10 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented on his Wednesday show that Joe Biden has to convince people he is up to the job of being president despite doing “a pretty solid job” and running against “Hair Mussolini.”

NY Times Leads with Fears Over Trump Turn to ‘Fascist-Sounding' Tones

November 24th, 2023 3:27 PM

Tuesday’s New York Times lead, “Trump’s Dire Words Raise New Fears About His Authoritarian Bent,” was an alarmist story that begged the question, if Trump really is the next Hitler, then why do Democrats want the media to give him airtime? Reporters Michael Bender and Michael Gold played along with Democratic scaremongering over Trump and his “vermin” insult.

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DERANGED MSNBC: Trump Is ‘Even More Dangerous’ Than Hitler, Mussolini

November 22nd, 2023 12:20 PM

The next time a liberal journalist, academic, or family member tries to insist fear-mongering is a “right-wing media” phenomenon, show them a segment like this from MSNBC’s Deadline: White House. On Tuesday, former Senator-turned-bitter pundit and MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill (D-MO) seethed with hatred that former President Donald Trump is “even more dangerous” than Adolf Hitler…

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Ex-CNN+ Host Smears Johnson as 'David Duke-Lite'

October 28th, 2023 11:13 AM

Professor, frequent media guest, atheist, and former CNN+ host Scott Galloway traveled over to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to prove he knows nothing about religious people as he declared that new Speaker Mike Johnson’s belief God ordained him as Speaker proves he is “David Duke-lite.” Fellow atheist Maher did not go that far, but did play the Mussolini card.

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Reid: 'Toy-Sized Mussolini' DeSantis Wants US to Be Iran, North Korea

May 31st, 2023 9:49 AM

MSNBC’s Joy Reid had some gloomy and hysterical predictions for what the future holds if America elects “toy-sized Mussolini Ron DeSantis” in 2024 on Tuesday’s installment of The ReidOut. As Reid tells it if DeSantis were to become president, America would turn into “China, Cuba, North Korea, Afghanistan, or Iran.”

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Hayes: Not Giving 'Gender-Affirming Care' To Minors Is 'Authoritarian'

May 19th, 2023 1:16 PM

MSNBC's All In host Chris Hayes lamented on Thursday that when people think of authoritarians, they tend to think of people like Stalin or Mussoulini and not “Mr. Pudding Fingers” because for Hayes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s education, abortion, Disney, and drag show policies are all hallmarks of “authoritarianism.” However, the worst bit of so-called authoritarianism to come out…

The Calvin Coolidge Presidency at the Century Mark

February 21st, 2023 6:05 PM

WASHINGTON – How people understand history largely depends on who writes it and from what perspective. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, has received what might be called a raw deal from historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Steele Commager, among others. They created a caricature of Coolidge that includes blaming him for the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the year after…

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MSNBC Cites Hitler, Mussolini To Warn GOP is Threatening Democracy

July 16th, 2022 12:12 PM

Politico White House editor Sam Stein stepped in to guest host MSNBC’s Saturday installment of Velshi where he asked what he thought was a profound question: what is “closest historical parallel to the moment.. that we are in right now with our democracy?” The answer he got back from Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat was to analogize the current situation to the raise of Hitler and Mussolini.

Putin’s War Puts Him in Infamous Company

March 14th, 2022 5:28 PM

Washington — You might recall last week that I began calling President Vladimir Putin of Russia “KGB Col. Vladimir Putin.” I meant to diminish him in the eyes of my readers. I asserted that he rose to the rank of colonel when he was in the KGB, or, rather, when there was a KGB. Well, this column has a very erudite audience, and several of my readers protested that Vlad never achieved the rank…

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Media Dubs Trump's Appearance a Mussolini Moment

October 8th, 2020 3:30 PM

After President Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening, MSNBC and CNN hosts and guests alike got their talking points aligned to compare Trump's appearance on the Truman Balcony to Benito Mussolini. 

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Reid Says ‘Mussolini’ Trump Is Sicker Than Said; Wonders If He’ll Die!

October 6th, 2020 11:53 PM

A day after her meltdown calling President Trump’s White House return a “Mussolini moment,” MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid not only reupped the nonsense on Tuesday’s show, but went further in the A-block by speculating Trump must be sicker than has been made public and even insinuating he might die of coronavirus like the late Herman Cain did on July 30th.

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Lockhart: Dershowitz's Argument Sounds Like What Hitler Would Say!

January 29th, 2020 11:49 PM
A week after being roasted for tweeting a fake conversation between Republican senators, CNN political commentator and former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart claimed Wednesday night during the Senate trial’s dinner break that an argument used by Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz was “un-American” and akin to those used by “authoritarian people” to justify “genocide.”
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Matthews: Trump Is Like Idi Amin with Crayons, Could Have Dementia

August 30th, 2019 1:39 PM
Thursday’s Hardball not only featured A-block panelists and MSNBC host Chris Matthews defending former FBI Director James Comey for violating DOJ policy to leak to the media, but Matthews floated to his B-block that possibility President Donald Trump could be suffering from dementia. Matthews also compared Trump to Idi Amin, Julius Caesar, and Benito Mussolini, who’s like “an eight-year-old with…