Liberal media commentators criticize Trump supporters, ‘Trumpism’: ‘Collision of greed and hatred’
Several liberal media commentators have attacked supporters of President-elect Donald Trump in recent days, as the year winds down and Biden prepares to leave the White House.
“It’s inevitable that the hyper-populist, non-college-educated part of Trump’s base, which is at least pluralistic, the majority if you make certain arguments, will always be conditioned to believe that the word immigrant or visa always means in their minds that brown people are bad,” he said. Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, before he began mocking Trump supporters, during an appearance on MSNBC.
Wilson responded to differences of opinion among Republicans regarding the H1-B visa program for skilled workers, which Trump admitted he used on his estates.
“They believe that the guy with the GED and his fake Oakley sunglasses and his goatee and his pickup truck, the universal Twitter bro, that you see in every avatar on Twitter, that guy thinks to himself, ‘Oh, I could have been a senior software designer in Google if there was no DEI or immigration.’ It’s absurd,” Wilson said.
A group of liberal commentators have lashed out at Trump’s support in recent days as he prepares to officially reclaim the presidency. (Left: Screenshot/MSNBC, Center: (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images), Right: (Screenshot/92NY))
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, former CNN reporter Don Lemon and MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. they also targeted supporters and the movement of the newly elected president.
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Rubin suggested that Trump supporters could not read during the event in 92NY Center for Culture and the Arts Dec. 15, when she spoke with anti-Trump critic George Conway about the implications of the 2024 election.
“People ask me all the time why is the media so mummy-pamsey? And there are two explanations,” Rubin began. “The first is that they’re convinced that if they moved just a little bit to the right, all those MAGA readers — you’ll notice the contradiction in the terms ‘MAGA readers’ — would pick up The Washington Post , and they’d have more readers. Which is there logical fallacy? And there’s nothing the Washington Post can do to get those people to subscribe, but I’m convinced they’re in there somewhere.”
Rubin also wrote a columnpublished Dec. 23, to the Post who advised against reaching out to the other side to find common ground, especially with Trump allies and supporters.
Lemon called Trump supporters “stupid idiots” and mocked their “stupid MAGA brains” during episode of the Don Lemon Show.
Don Lemon appears on CNN on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (CNN screenshot)
“You’re so fucking stupid and you deserve it. You fucking deserve it because you’re so stupid,” he said. “Yes, I rejoice in your stupidity.”
He told MAGA supporters were part of a cult, and asked, “How dumb and stupid are you?”
MSNBC’s Claude made the argument Monday that hatred, selfishness and greed are an essential part of the Trump movement.
“So this is a really important point, isn’t it? In the sense that you always had those three components and Ronald Reagan was able to balance them in interesting ways. And so we have a plutocrat, right, in Elon Musk, right? Greed, you know, pulling back, sort of promoting his interests, and you have right-wing populism, right-wing populism that sometimes expresses itself in terms of emphasizing the American worker, but it takes the form of xenophobia, it takes the form of nativism, it takes the form of hatred,” said Claude, arguing that the three elements of the modern Republican Party are corporatists, libertarians, and nativists.
MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. claimed on Monday that hatred, greed and selfishness are at the heart of Donald Trump’s movement. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace strongly agreed with Claude during a conversation on her show Monday and argued that understanding Trumpism was key to his victory.
“So we have a collision of greed and hate right in front of us and that’s at the heart of Trumpism, MAGAism. It’s always been greed, it’s always been selfish, it’s always been hate and now it’s fully, fully,” Claude said.
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President Biden also called Trump supporters trash during a Zoom campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in late October, though the White House and the president himself tried walk back.
