NBC: 'Shockingly Divisive' Trump Threw 'Verbal Grenades' in Address

Friday's NBC Nightly News hyped how President Donald Trump supposedly lobbed "verbal grenades" in his inauguration address, as Hallie Jackson put it. Chuck Todd contended that the speech was "shockingly divisive for an inaugural," and quickly added that it was "unnecessarily divisive." Todd later underlined that Trump "insulted almost every living president that was there...which, to me, was so…
Matthew Balan

NPR's Rage Rerun: Trump Win Means America 'Can't Stand Black People'

National Public Radio decided to greet the morning of Trump’s inauguration in the same way that it greeted the day after Trump’s surprising victory. They sought out black rage…in the person of author Attica Locke, who also writes for  the Fox drama Empire. She came to say this day marked “how much this country can’t stand black people,” and “doesn’t want Muslims here,” and “did not want a woman…
Tim Graham

Anti-Trump Rioters Set Fire to DC Streets, Police Standoff Continues

Vandalism by anti-Trump rioters continued into the evening Friday as they had a standoff with the Metropolitan D.C. Police outside the Hamilton hotel. 
Katie Yoder and Lauretta Brown

MSNBC Knocks Parade, Trump Family as the New 'Romanovs'

These people just won’t let up. Late Friday afternoon, MSNBC couldn’t help but knock the slow pace of the Inauguration Day parade and the Trump family as the new but inexperienced Romanov family that ruled Russia for centuries. When the First Family walked from the White House to the parade viewing stand, Matthews seized the spotlight by comparing the Trumps to the royal family who ran Russia…
Curtis Houck

'Shades of Pyongyang': MSNBC Hypes HuffPost's Military Parade Claim

During MSNBC's Friday coverage of the inauguration, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow played up a report from the Huffington Post claiming that President Trump's transition team requested military hardware for the inaugural parade. Matthews wondered, "Wouldn't that look like a little shades of Pyongyang?" Maddow added, "It would be a little Red Square to do that." Minutes later, Maddow revisited…
Matthew Balan

Matthews: Trump Speech Was ‘Hitlerian,’ Jokes He Could Be Mussolini

MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was a living, breathing edition of Notable Quotables on Inauguration Day, offering takes ranging from joking about Mussolini and former President George W. Bush hugging Supreme Court justices to this now-infamous quip that President Trump’s speech was “Hitlerian.”
Curtis Houck

Day 1: Liberal Nonprofits Demand Trump Impeachment

Donald Trump had been president for mere hours and liberal groups were already advocating his impeachment. ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org, a website run by Free Speech for People (FSFP) and RootsAction, went live the moment Trump took the oath of office, according to The Washington Post on Jan. 20. The website claimed that Trump violated the Constitution by refusing “to divest from his business…
Aly Nielsen

CNN's Navarro Slams DeVos on Guns: Like 'Fallen on Her Head As a Baby'

Appearing as a panel member on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360, during a heated debate over President Donald Trump not choosing Hispanic cabinet secretaries, moderate Republican CNN analyst Ana Navarro had a meltdown as she excoriated Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos as sounding "like she's fallen on her head as a baby" during her confirmation hearings, and attacked her support for allowing…
Brad Wilmouth

Post Reporter Compares Violent D.C. Rioters to Boston Tea Party

Friday morning through early afternoon, anti-Trump and anarchist rioters calling themselves #DisruptJ20 took to the streets of Washington D.C. to protest Trump’s inauguration. Their protest took several forms, from blocking entrances and freeways, to violence in the forms of vandalism, destruction and throwing concrete at police officers. While many in the media expressed dismay at the violence,…
Kristine Marsh

CNN: Obama ‘Marvelous’ ‘Iconic’ but Trump ‘Dark’ ‘Radical’

Immediately after Donald Trump finished his Inaugural Address CNN’s Jake Tapper called it  “one of the most radical inaugural speeches we’ve ever heard.” His colleague John King added the speech offered “A dark view. Even a pessimistic view of where we are at the moment.” This is in sharp contrast to how the CNN welcomed Barack Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Address. Back then the hosts were wowed by…
Geoffrey Dickens

NYT A1 All Negative on Inauguration: Trump ‘May Be in Violation'

As if trying to poison the Potomac water for the new president on his first day in office, the New York Times Inauguration Day off-lead story tried to wrong-foot Trump the moment he takes his hand off the Bible: “With an Oath, Complications In Hotel Lease – Ethical ‘Minefield’ for the President-Elect” by Eric Lipton and Susanne Craig. The jump-page headline, “At Trump Hotel in Washington,…
Clay Waters

Malia Obama to Intern with Progressive Producer Harvey Weinstein

After spending her 2015 summer months working with Lena Dunham on the set of sex-filled, pro-abortion Girls, Malia Obama is moving on to a bigger and better internship. This year, she’ll be working with progressive producer Harvey Weinstein. 
Sarah Stites

NYT's Krugman Loses it Over 'Donald the Unready'

Will New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ever recover from Donald Trump’s election? In his Times column published on Inauguration Day 2017, Krugman lashed out desperately at President-elect Trump and his associates, calling him an “insecure, short-attention-span egomaniac” whose “administration would be blatantly corrupt.”
Aly Nielsen

CNN’s Borger Whines, Trump Paid No ‘Tribute to Hillary’

Minutes after President Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday afternoon, criticism poured in from CNN. Chief political analyst Gloria Border demonstrated why the outlet has the moniker “Clinton News Network” when she ridiculously whined that, “I was also surprised that in some way he did not pay some tribute to Hillary Clinton… He did not do it.” According to Borger, it would have been seen…
Nicholas Fondacaro