MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Idi Amin, Kim Jong-Un; ‘He Loves the Parades!’

Newsbusters.org ^ | January 20, 2017 | Curtis Houck

[Kaslin]

President Donald Trump was compared to another murderous world dictator on Thursday night as MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews suggested Trump is just like former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un since Trump and Kim “love the parades” where they can serve as the star alongside military demonstrations.

The comparison arose while Matthews and his Hardball Roundtable discussed Trump’s latest blockbuster New York Times interview where the President raved about the crowds he claimed were there to see him at the Eiffel Tower and the immaculate Bastille Day parade he witnessed.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Kim Jong-Un; ‘He Loves the Parades!’

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Kim Jong-Un; ‘He Loves the Parades!’

Right on cue, Schmidt’s colleague Yamiche Alcindor lashed out at Trump as if she were a pundit instead of a journalist:

I mean, that’s why he’s having all these rallies, right? that’s why he’s going and having all these rallies. That's why he feeds off this idea that people want to love him. He feeds off this idea that I got this big thing that the media told me and all these people told me I wasn’t going to be able to get here. Now that I’m here, I want everyone to praise me.

At the end of the segment, Matthews blurted out that the other comparison: “Look out, Idi Amin!”

Between 2015 and 2017, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah compared Trump to various African dictators and ISIS, including Amin, Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gadhafi. 

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski expressed similar sentiments on June 23 days before Trump’s infamous tweet about her appearance. She fretted to her assembled guests that America is country ruled by “a developing dictatorship.”

For Matthews, he has repeatedly linked the Trump family to the Romanovs, in addition to the suggestion that Trump could end up like Italy’s Benito Mussolini in having his son-in-law Jared Kushner murdered like Mussolini did.

Whether it’s Mugabe, Mussolini, or Hugo Chavez, the media won’t stop with the comparisons, all the while lecturing conservatives and Trump supporters about their supposed incivility. 

It doesn’t matter to the left that Trump hasn’t rounded up journalists, held public executions, or starved millions: It’s all about creating a narrative that their comrades in The Resistance can cultivate to the point that they view it as fact.

Here’s the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on July 20:

MSNBC’s Hardball July 20, 2017 7:42 p.m. Eastern

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Trump added that, upon leaving the Eiffel Tower after having dinner with the French president, it “looked like they could have never had a bigger celebration ever in the history of the Eiffel Tower...there were thousands and thousands of people cause they heard we were having dinner.” Well, this morning, a French newspaper pointed out the President seemed to be confusing regular Eiffel Tower tourism with interest in his visit. Well, that's a smack.

(....)

7:47 p.m. Eastern

MATTHEWS: Anyway, in an interview, he talked about how successful Trump's trip to Poland was and he told The Times: “I have had the best reviews on foreign land. So I go to Poland and make a speech. Enemies of mine in the media, enemies of mine are saying it was the greatest speech ever made on foreign soil by a president. I'll saying, man...you saw the reviews I got on that speech.” Michael, I think the Sorbonne speech by Teddy Roosevelt gets a little credit here in his competition. What do we make of this?

MICHAEL SCHMIDT: Well, he seems to derive a lot of strength from these trips abroad. The trip to Saudi Arabia where they certainly treated him like king and they really played to the things that he likes. He really likes the pomp. He likes the military aspects of these. He loved the parade in France.

MATTHEWS: He loves the parades.

SCHMIDT: He loves the parades. He wants to do one here.

MATTHEWS: He wants Bastille-type parade in D.C., I guess on Pennsylvania Avenue. This is his dream. He’s like an 8-year-old. What do we make of that?

SCHMIDT: Correct.

MATTHEWS: I want big parade. You know, this is really like Kim Jong-un too.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: I mean, that’s why he’s having all these rallies, right? that’s why he’s going and having all these rallies. That's why he feeds off this idea that people want to love him. He feeds off this idea that I got this big thing that the media told me and all these people told me I wasn’t going to be able to get here. Now that I’m here, I want everyone to praise me.

(.....)

7:49 p.m. Eastern

MATTHEWS: Look out, Idi Amin!

[Parley Baer]

There are some really mentally sick people at cnn.

[bray]

Who would have known he said it w/o the internet?

[2ndDivisionVet]

If President Trump were 1% the fascist they claim he is, they’d be picking the maggots out of their gruel at the FEMA camp mess hall.

[madison10]

Hey, Chrissy, has YOUR brain been checked lately?

[GnuThere]

Wow, I don’t watch me any MSNBC, so Chrissy sure has aged a lot since his “tingle” days. He’s probably jealous of Trump aging better, not to mention his wife, fortune, lovely family, being POTUS, etc etc

[Fungi]

No visits by Dennis Rodman and no covers of Al Green yet, Leg Tingling One.

[fatima]

Chris needs to confession and Commuunion. In the end the money is not worth it Chris.Not worth it,

[Telepathic Intruder]

The thrill is gone for poor Crissy.

[EinNYC]

Chris Matthews: why don’t you go insert your finger or any other appendage into a light socket? I’m sure you’ll get your “tingle” back. Worthless blabbing idiot.

[5th MEB]

TINGLEBOY just doesn’t like the crease in PRESIDENT TRUMPS (damn, I love saying that) trousers.

[jonrick46]

With comments by idiots like Matthews, Trump has all the material he needs for campaign videos showing the stark raving mad Left spewing their venom on the political landscape. All Trump needs to do is say, “Do you believe this stuff?” PLAY THE VIDEO and finish with, “Didn’t think so.” It would be blow back in the most exquisite manner.

[VideoDoctor]

What a JOKE!

Chris Matthews is the height of irrelevance in the world of news.

[faithhopecharity]

the lunatic asylum must have overflowed

Gee, Chris, Donald doesn’t send a tickle down your leg like Obama did?

[jim35]

What a putz. He should put on clown make-up before each show.

[clearcarbon]

"MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Idi Amin, Kim Jong-Un; ‘He Loves the Parades!’ "

The spirit of joseph goebbels lives in chris matthews.

[neverevergiveup]

“He loves the parades.”

Obama spent more time at fundraisers and vacations than on national security. I didn't hear Matthews criticizing him, and if anyone had said 1/10th of the things that the left have been saying about Trump the left would have been outraged.

[fulltlt]

...... and Chris Matthews is Bagdad Bob.

[fulltlt]

...... and Chris Matthews is Bagdad Bob.