Many liberal media commentators have criticized supporters of President-elect Donald Trump in recent days, as the year winds down and Biden prepares to exit the White House.
“It's inevitable that the uneducated populist part of Trump's base, which is at least pluralism, the majority if you make certain arguments, will always be conditioned to believe that the word immigrant or visa,” said Rick Wilson, founder of the Lincoln Project, before mocking Trump supporters, during Appearing on MSNBC: “They always have in their mind that black people are bad.”
Wilson was responding to the differing opinions among Republicans regarding the H1-B visa program for skilled workers, This is what Trump admitted He used it on his property.
“They have this belief that the guy with the GED and his fake sunglasses and his goatee and his pickup truck, and his global Twitter brother, who you see in every Twitter avatar, this guy thinks to himself, ‘Oh, I could have been a senior software designer at Google if I hadn't DEI or immigration.' “It's ridiculous,” Wilson said.
A group of liberal commentators have criticized the support for Trump in recent days, as he prepares to officially assume the title of president again. (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 correspondent Don Lemon, and MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. also targeted supporters of the president-elect and his movement.
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Rubin noted that Trump supporters could not read during an event at the convention 92NY Center for Culture and Arts On December 15, when I spoke with anti-Trump critic George Conway about the ramifications of the 2024 election.
“People ask me all the time, ‘Why is the media so boring?’ There are two explanations,” Rubin began. “The first is that they're convinced that if they move a little bit to the right, all the MAGA readers out there — now, you'll notice the contradiction in terminology, 'MAGA readers' — will pick up the Washington Post and have a greater readership. What's the logical fallacy here? And there's not What the Washington Post could do would get these people to subscribe, but I'm convinced they're out there somewhere.
Robin also wrote a columnpublished on December 23 by The Washington Post, which advised against reaching out to the other side to find common ground, specifically with Trump's allies and supporters.
Lemon called Trump supporters “stupid idiots” and mocked their “stupid MAGA mind,” during a rally. An episode of The Don Lemon Show.
Don Lemon appears on CNN on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (CNN screenshot)
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“You're so stupid and you deserve it. You deserve it because you're so stupid,” he said. “Yes, I gloat over your stupidity.”
MAGA supporters said They were part of a cult, and they asked, “How stupid and stupid are you?”
MSNBC's Claude made the argument Monday that hate, selfishness and greed were a core part of the Trump movement.
“So, that's a really important point, right? In the sense that you always had these three components and Ronald Reagan was able to balance them in interesting ways. And here we have the wealthy, right, in Elon Musk, right? Greed, you know , pulls out sort of the promotion of his interests, and you have right-wing populism, right-wing populism that is sometimes expressed in terms of a focus on the American worker, but it takes the form of xenophobia takes the form of hostility toward immigrants, and it takes the form of hatred,” Claude said. Claiming that the three elements of the modern Republican Party are unionists, liberals, and immigrants.
MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. argued Monday that hate, greed and selfishness were at the heart of Donald Trump's movement. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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MSNBC's Nicole Wallace She emphatically agreed with Claude during the conversation on her show on Monday and said that understanding Trumpism is essential to defeating it.
“So, we have a collision of greed and hate right in front of us, and that's the essence of Trumpism and MAGAism. It's always been greed, it's always been selfish, it's always been hate and now it's in full view of everyone,” Claude said.
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President Biden also referred to Trump supporters as trash during a Zoom campaign call with Vice President Kamala Harris in late October, though the White House and the president himself tried. To walk again.
