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Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend featured a clip from a town hall in Indiana's 5th Congressional District. In November, Trump and Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz carried the district handily: by 16 and 18 points, respectively. Yet the crowd overwhelmingly and raucously cheered the suggestion that the congresswoman should demand Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's resignation, given the Signal chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Co-host Symone Sanders claimed the cheering people were district "constituents," and co-host Michael Steele took it a step further, saying they were Republicans. The show provided no evidence to support either statement. Did MSNBC make any...

"That's what I'm talking about. Bring that resistance!"That was self-described Republican Michael Steele on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, urging far-left Dem Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal to resist Donald Trump. Steele and Jayapal each claimed that they have very different views on many issues, but are united in resisting the predations of Orange Man Bad. But when's the last time anyone heard Steele forcefully express his supposedly still-Republican views on the show? His positions have been indistinguishable from those of his highly-partisan Dem co-hosts, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders. Speaking of the latter, Sanders repeatedly waved her handkerchief [see screencap]...

Life under the segregationist Trump regime is horrible enough. But it threatens to get even worse! Soon, large swaths of the population will be incapable of reading about just how horrible things are . . . because they will be incapable of reading at all! That is, if you buy into MSNBC's doomsaying. NAACP president Derrick Johnson was a guest on Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, and much of the hand-wringing focused on the Trump administration's efforts to say sayonara to the Department of Education. Attempting to broaden his scaremongering beyond African-Americans and Latinos, and induce whites to also...

On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez said that NBC News had obtained a copy of the email sent out to federal employees at Elon Musk's behest requiring them to list five things that they had accomplished in the last week. If the show's panelists had to list five things they had recently accomplished, one thing they couldn't mention was actually having read that email. Because if they had, they wouldn't have fretted, as two of them did, that in responding to the email, "classified information" or secrets would be divulged. That's because, as you' see, the...

MSNBC is pulling the plug on Joy Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” as part of a major shakeup, Fox News Digital has learned—and I can’t stop laughing. Honestly, there’s no one more deserving of cancellation. Well, maybe Rachel Maddow… and pretty much everyone else at MSNBC. According to the report, “The ReidOut” has been struggling to hold viewers, averaging just 973,000 in February 2025—a sharp 28% drop from the 1.3 million it pulled in during the same month last year. Reid has become notorious for her relentless anti-Trump rhetoric and a string of controversial moments. After the November election, Reid claimed...

MSNBC‘s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect. The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, and the group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week. What’s more, Alex Wagner, who has hosted...

MSNBC host Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported Sunday. A final episode of Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” will air sometime this week, bringing to an end a mainstay of MSNBC’s lineup for the past five years, as per the NYT’s report.

MSNBC‘s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect. The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, and the group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week. Click to expand the Mega Menu Variety...

MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup MSNBC host Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported Sunday.

On Sunday's edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, weeknight host Chris Hayes questioned Trump's machismo for imposing higher tariffs on Canada and Mexico than on China. He's tougher on allies than on adversaries, because that's easier, less risky. He even claimed Trump has been "extremely generous to adversaries" like Russia and China. HAYES: He likes the conflict, he likes to project strength, but he's sort of a coward fundamentally. And the stakes of actual conflict and fights with adversaries is much higher. And so this is a way of kind of, a little bit of bullying, and cake and eat...

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the co-hosts did what they could do downplay and dump on the magnitude of Mike Johnson's first-ballot election as Speaker of the House, and on Trump's contribution to that victory. But panelists Julie Tsirkin and Eugene Daniels showed some surprising independence. Co-host Symone Sanders portrayed Trump's call to House holdouts as "slapdash." And co-host Michael Steele claimed Trump had to be persuaded to "come in off the back nine" to make the call. But NBC News correspondent Tsirkin said that Trump actually made two calls, during which he made the case that Johnson...

Shades of Joe Biden in 2012, telling a largely black audience that Mitt Romney's "gonna put y'all back in chains." Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend played a wretched race card. Co-host Michael Steele teed up Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of that ultraliberal gang The Squad, suggesting that Trump would take America back to the era of Jim Crow. Pressley upped the ante: "We're on the precipice of going back again to Jim Crow—and then some."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Q. How do you know that Kamala Harris' campaign is in desperation mode? A. When a major part of its closing strategy is to attack the voters— including a key component of its base—and a top surrogate describes herself as "frustrated" and "angry" with the electorate! [snip] Co-host Michael Steele addressed himself to: "The young brothers in Detroit and Atlanta, and Philly, Baltimore, across the country. The young men who in this discussion around abortion seemingly have been detached from it by the right. You know, they got this bro culture, you know. It's about the MAN. You know, the...

On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele -- a former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project -- took the occasion of Kamala Harris's release of health records to mock Donald Trump. Steele slammed Trump for not releasing medical records, saying he has doctors lie about his weight when he's fat like "Wally the Walrus." He added: "The man is old as dirt. He's the oldest man to ever run for president."We certainly hope that Steele, who turns 66 one week from today, is not experiencing any short-term memory loss. He apparently forgot that...

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, now a frequent critic of the party, said Sunday he thinks Vice President Harris will win the general election, flipping North Carolina and Florida in the process. “This coalition that’s being created right now by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is not just one to watch, but it’s going to be one that the history books will study, when, I think, she takes this thing to victory,” Steele said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” “Florida and North Carolina will fall, along with Georgia,” Steele continued. Steele agreed...

Back to Videos Michael Steele: "A Lot Of Questions Around That Ear," We Have No Official Medical Records From Trump Assassination Attempt Posted By Tim Hains On Date July 17, 2024 Michael Steele, who served as the head of the RNC during the Obama administration, speculated Tuesday on MSNBC about big unanswered questions about "the extent and nature of the damage to [Donald Trump's] ear" following the assassination attempt Saturday. "There are a lot of questions around that ear," Steele said. "Let's start with last night and the band-aid. It’s been three days -- going on four -- since this...

Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Demands Answers, Says, 'If Trump Was Shot with a High-Caliber Bullet, There Should Be Very Little Ear There,' Asks, 'Where is the Medical Report from the Hospital or Campaign?' Suggests a Cover-Up.

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) leader Michael Steele said the judge overseeing former President Trump’s classified documents case is “putting the prosecution on trial.” Steele slammed Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified documents case, for handling the pretrial motions slowly and for being biased toward the prosecutors on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” He referred to a New York Times report last week that said two of Cannon’s colleagues urged her to pass off the case, suggesting it might be better for the case to be heard in the Miami courthouse. "Since then, as the Times puts it,...

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele criticized the New York appeals court’s decision to pause enforcement of the multimillion-dollar judgment against former President Trump and his company over deceitful business practices. In a terse order on Monday, a five-judge state appeals court panel said it would delay the enforcement of the $464 million judgment against Trump, the Trump Organization and top executives, plus interest, if they post bond within 10 days. The bond amount was also slashed by more than half. “Yet again, @realDonaldTrump gets special treatment with his own private system of justice,” Steele, a regular critic...

At NewsBusters, we use the term "MSNBC Republican" to describe people who were once actual Republicans but can now be reliably counted on to criticize their supposed party and generally toe the liberal line o' the day. Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, is the epitome of the kind of Biden-voter Republican MSNBC uses. Even so, his performance as co-host on the network's show The Weekend on Saturday morning could have constituted a first: an 'MSNBC Republican' rapping the Dems . . . for not being partisan enough!Get the rest of the story...