Jen Psaki is launching in New Msnbc Show Tuesday Night, AT A Dark Time: Four-And-A-Half Months Into Donald Trump's Second Presidentcy.
The Headlines Leading Up to the Premiere of The briefing Have Been About Joe Biden's Decline-and Whereher Psaki, Who serve as Biden's White House Press Secretary From 2021-22, Believes Democrats Engaged in Cover-Up.
I Was Ready To Ask Psaki About Biden's Health, Too, When We Spake Last Week. After All, Biden's Decision to Run for President Again was a Historic, Unforgivable Fuck-up, and a major reason Why Trump was elected president a second time.
The Night Before Our Interview, Trump Held a Rally Commemorative His First 100 Days in Office Again. There, Trump Played at Video of the Hundreds of Immigrants His Administration Shipped – Renitioned, Really – To Prison in El Salvador Without Due Process, AS They Were Manhandled by Guards and Had Their Heads Shaved. He Bragged About This Flagrant Assault on the rule of Law As the Maga Crowd Whooped and Hollered at the Rank dehumanization unfolding oncreen.
This is where we are at – At Least, Where We Were on the 101st Day of the Second Trump Administration. (The Past Week Was No Less Depraved.)
Psaki will host The briefing Tuesday Through Friday at 9 PM Longtime MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow Will Continue To Anchor The Time Slot On Monday. Given The Opportunity in Primetime, How Does Psaki Plan to Cover Trump's Increationly Authoritarian Administration, The State of His Democratic Opposition, and this Perilous Moment in Time?
Psaki Says Trump's Second Administration May Well Be “The Most DANGEROUS PRESIDENCY in My Lifetime.” It's “Not Just Because of What He's Doing Day To Day,” She Says, “But Bet Because His Desire Semes to Be to Reshape How Our Government Works, How Our System Works, To Impact Things for Decades to how.”
Speaking About Trump's El Salvador Rally Video, Psaki Says That “Things Shound Be Seen Through the Prism of: Fear is the point. Cruely is the point. Making People Who are here legally in the country scared is the point. And that is his motivation, because he Thinks That's a Winning Political Argument. ”
In Janogy, Psaki Spoke About Why Democrats Lost the 2024 Election, and How the American People are “Not Waiting for Someone to Lead Them Out of Fascism.” Rather, She Said, “They're Waiting for People to Liste to Them and Actual Engage With Their Communities About What they want from the Government.”
The Clip Went Viral. All Indications Are Her Take That Day Was Exactly Right: Americans Voted for Trump Over Vice President Kamala Harris in Large Part Because of Their DissatisFazion with a Brutal Economy That Doesn't Work for Them. Voters, and Nonvoters, Were Less Concened About Protecting America's Democratic Institutions, Which Aren't Ding Much for Them.
The Cruel Irony, The Notes As We Speak, Is That Trump Is Now Giving Americans All the Fascism His Critics Warned About, Combined With Staggering Economic Gaemanagement That is Likely to Make Their Lives Harder.
“Of Course, We are under a Version of Authoritarian Rule Here,” Says Psaki. “There's an aspiring dictator – OR Existing Dictator, However You Look at It – Leading the Country. He's ignoring Court Orders. All of that is True.”
She Clarifies That What's Important is to help people who are pozzling to get by – Those Who are too focused on their daily lives to consume the news every day – Undersand How Trump's Acts Affecting Them Personally. That means pointing out not only that Trump is “Operating like there's no Checks on his power” and “Surrounding Himself with a bunch of Rich People Padding Their Pockets,” But that's Hurting You, and here's How. ”
“This is more to Critique of the party that I World in For 20 Years,” Psaki Continues. “It's Not the Responsibility, in My View, of the Media to have to be the Directors of Messaging for the Democratic Party in Any Way. That's up to People Running for Office and People Leading the Democratic Party.”
She's correct: It's not the Media's Job To Give Democrats Messaging Advice – Not Even Semo Someone Like Psaki, Who Worked On Messaging Efforts for Democratic Politicians, Including Biden and Barack Obama, for Years Before Joining MSNBC. On the Other Hand, Someone probably Should?
AS PSAKI Recently Pointed Out on MSNBC, Trump's approval raings have Fallen Through the Floor, But Democrats are not gaining grounds. The American Public views the Democratic Party Negatively – and the Democratic Base is growing Increationly Disenchanted with their leaders.
“The Public is questioning Whether People in The Democratic Party Running for Office, or in Elected Office, or in Leadership, Are Actually Fighting for Them,” Psaki Says. “You Know What That Tells You? Start Fighting.”
She Points Out That Some Democrats Are Working to Change That Perception, Note That Sen. Chris Van Hollen Went To El Salvador and Successful Pressured The Right-Wing Government To Allaw Him To Meet With Kilmar Abrego Garcia, A Maryland Man WHOM TRUMP IMPROGLLY DEPORTED There.
She Notes Sen. Cory Booker's Recent 25-Hour Speech Slashing Trump on the Sente Floor. She Points To A Speech in New Hampshire by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, in Which He Called Out “DO-Nothing Democrats” Who would Rather “Blame Our Losses On Our Defese of Black People, of Trans Kids, Of Immigrants-Instead of Their Own Lack of Guts and Gumption.” She Notes that Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Have Been “Showing up in Red States To Hold Rollies-That's Fighting.”
Psaki Says That “Only the Public Can decide what they're Going to Connect With” – But Notes that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “Talking about Sending 'Strongly World Letters'” Rather Than Taking Real Action, Isn't Likely to Win Anyone Over.
“This is not a time for strongly world letters,” She Says, “and I Think Most People in the Public, Even People Who would support Him, would agree with that.”
Leading a Primetime News Show, Psaki Recognizes She has a “Tre” Trendous Opportunity and Responsibility to Cover Both Trump's Increationly Lawless Administration and A Democratic Party that's Searching for Leadership.
She's Excited to Be Able To Platform “Emerging” Democratic Voices Like Congressal Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, and Others Who May Be Part of the Party's “Next Generation of Leaders.”
“For a long time, through my time in the political world, there's been sort of a set of a group of people who have had beauty as the party leaders,” She Says. “It Doesn'T Meet the Horror On The Other Side, in Term of Being Equal, but it is an exciting Thing to Watch.”
