{"id":19268,"date":"2025-01-20T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19268"},"modified":"2025-01-20T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:18:11","slug":"msnbc-anchors-rachel-maddow-joy-reid-triggered-by-trump-inauguration-how-is-this-happening-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19268","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC anchors Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid triggered by Trump inauguration: \u2018How is this happening in America?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing cable news channel MSNBC is back to foaming at the mouth about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Anchors Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid went off the deep-end while covering Inauguration Day, both aghast at the prospect of a democratically elected president making good on his policy promises that decisively swept him into office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is this happening in America?\u201d Maddow asked incredulously at the sight of Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem seated beside Apple CEO Tim Cook at the inauguration ceremony,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/how-is-this-happening-in-america-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-rails-against-tech-moguls-sitting-with-cabinet-at-trump-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is this happening? Why are people with tons of money up on the dais with cabinet nominees and family members?\u201d she asked, apparently forgetting that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereksaul\/2024\/10\/30\/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billionaires supported former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0over Trump by a nearly 2:1 margin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><a title=\"Open a slideshow of all 4 article images.\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/20\/us-news\/msnbcs-joy-reid-rachel-maddow-triggered-by-trump-inauguration\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;sr_share=facebook&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawH7uMBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfQoU4DgIaq0S4LTkmWVFd5IlIlSnVWfth_x2ueTlPlEZziHJ14_8ZeMPw_aem_cRXPkP4JKCKnA1XT-4yHsg#\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/joy-reid-argued-reelection-president-97034749.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" alt=\"Joy Reid.\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" \/><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text\"><span data-slideshow-modal=\"count\">4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>Far-left MSNBC commentator Joy Reid said Trump\u2019s return to the White House laid bare fundamental flaws within America\u2019s democratic institutions.<span class=\"credit\">MSNBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n<p>Joy Reid was also deep in her feelings during the panel, asserting Trump\u2019s return to the White House laid bare fundamental flaws within America\u2019s democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that this idea of the institutions \u2014 which the Bidens clearly believe in \u2014 have been completely exposed by this election,\u201d she said Monday morning on the network flanked by Maddow and Chris Hayes,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/very-hard-for-me-to-look-at-this-spectacle-joy-reid-mourns-how-americas-institutions-of-democracy-were-completely-exposed-by-trumps-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left activist commentator \u2014 who encouraged liberals to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/28\/media\/joy-reid-has-unhinged-rant-against-republicans-ahead-of-thanksgiving-make-your-own-dinner-maga\/\">skip Thanksgiving dinner<\/a>\u00a0with their Trump-supporting relatives \u2014 laced into Trump after Hayes attempted to strike a less combative tone, saying he was \u201crooting\u201d for the newly anointed commander-in-chief to succeed despite ideological differences.<\/p>\n<p>Reid responded by rattling off a list of Trump\u2019s policy positions that helped secure his historic 2024 election victory as \u201cwiping away the civic memory\u201d of Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promises on the table are 200 some odd executive actions, an attempt to get rid of birthright citizenship, an attempt to do mass deportation,\u201d she said in part.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><a title=\"Open a slideshow of all 4 article images.\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/20\/us-news\/msnbcs-joy-reid-rachel-maddow-triggered-by-trump-inauguration\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;sr_share=facebook&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawH7uMBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfQoU4DgIaq0S4LTkmWVFd5IlIlSnVWfth_x2ueTlPlEZziHJ14_8ZeMPw_aem_cRXPkP4JKCKnA1XT-4yHsg#\" aria-controls=\"nyp-slideshow-modal\" data-slideshow-modal=\"trigger\" aria-label=\"Open a slideshow of all 4 article images.\" data-slideshow-slide-number=\"2\" data-slideshow-slides-total=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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90w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/rachel-maddow-msnbc_39dbeb.jpg?resize=87,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/rachel-maddow-msnbc_39dbeb.jpg?resize=150,100&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/rachel-maddow-msnbc_39dbeb.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" alt=\"Rachel Maddow\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" \/><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text\"><span data-slideshow-modal=\"count\">4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow asked: \u201cHow is this happening in America?\u201d<span class=\"credit\">MSNBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><a title=\"Open a slideshow of 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2025-01-20T201352Z_1026611629_RC2TDCAM65YG_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-INAUGURATION.jpg?resize=234,147&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 234w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2025-01-20T201352Z_1026611629_RC2TDCAM65YG_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-INAUGURATION.jpg?resize=150,95&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2025-01-20T201352Z_1026611629_RC2TDCAM65YG_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-INAUGURATION.jpg?resize=50,32&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"937\" height=\"590\" \/><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text\"><span data-slideshow-modal=\"count\">4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>Reid insisted on a Monday panel that \u201ccruelty is the point\u201d of the new administration.<span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is supposed to be the great Christian president who is promising to attack immigrants and trans people who are already vulnerable,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are some of the executive orders. The cruelty is the point of this coming administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also dipped back into the Jan. 6 well, which she labeled \u201ca coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about an attempt to portray this peaceful transition of power with people who were convicted in the insurrection, attempt, attending with the person who fulminated, who fomented the coup, being sworn in as president, essentially a delay in the completion of the insurrection, the idea that the institutions will hold,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She even invoked the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., saying America just had a \u201ccontent of their character\u201d election.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\"><a title=\"Open a slideshow of all 4 article images.\" 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class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text\"><span data-slideshow-modal=\"count\">4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>Trump was sworn in Monday as the nation\u2019s 47th president.<span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd the person didn\u2019t get elected due to the content of their character, to use the phrase \u2014 the only thing that some folks on the right remember about Dr. King,\u201d she said, claiming the same holds true for Trump\u2019s cabinet designees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-nyp-editor-universal-promo\">\n<div class=\"universal-promo__inner\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou go down the list of the people. It\u2019s no longer a content of their character or great meritocracy. Now, it is people Trump likes to see on television. It\u2019s people he thinks will praise him. It\u2019s people who will give him what he wants and allow him to do to the American people, to immigrants whom Jesus loved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it is very hard for me to look at this spectacle of the takeover of the United States by a base mentality of greed and corruption and say the institutions will save us because they\u2019ve not done well for us so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CNN contributor Tim Naftali said Trump \u201chas decided to make good on his promise to be a dictator on day one\u201d following the president\u2019s wave of executive orders Monday, including renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a signal to the far right in the world that America is now going to play the game the way the other far-right countries play, which is what we want to take,\u201d Naftali said. \u201cWhich means, for the first time since World War Two, we are no longer an indispensable nation. 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