Elitist Media: Trump, U.S. Military in Iran Are Worse Than Nazis

Geoffrey Dickens
April 10th, 2026 4:45 PM

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Trump Derangement Syndrome was on full display this past month as members of the elitist media reacted to America’s actions in Iran with preposterous claims, like former NBCer Chuck Todd, who questioned who was more dangerous with nukes, radical Iran or President Donald Trump? 

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan insulted American sailors, claiming they were worse than Nazis. Former MSNBC/ESPN host Keith Olbermann is already predicting defeat, railing that Iran is Trump’s “instant processed Vietnam.”

This last month also saw some silly assertions, too. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon insisted he could run for President, win and do a better job than Trump. 

Celebrities joined in the anti-Trump freak-out, as well. ABC’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg absurdly blurted that Trump bombed Iran to distract from the Epstein files and the search for NBC Today host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother. Singer Bruce Springsteen lectured from the stage against the “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous” administration.

The following are just a few of the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month:

 

Mehdi Hasan Claims American Sailors Are Worse Than the Nazis

 

 

“It’s a moral abomination. And yes, it’s tactically stupid. They, you know, they bombed a submarine and just let the sailors drown to death. Even the Nazis didn’t do that during World War II, apparently. Even the Nazis collected people from the water. This is insane rhetoric. Insane behavior from people who don’t give a damn. Donald Trump has never given a damn about Iranian lives.”
— Former MSNBC host, current CEO of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan on MS NOW’s All In With Chris Hayes, March 6.

 

Chuck Todd: We’re Worried About Iran with a Nuke, But What About Trump?!

 

 

“You got to ask the question, we’re worried about a radical in Iran getting their hands on a nuclear weapon. What about what’s going on in our country?...I can see him [Trump] talking himself into the ultimate weapon here in his head. I do. I could see him being that crazy.”
— Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on Chris Cillizza’s So What podcast, April 7. 

 

Keith Olbermann: Trump Has Personally Turned Iran Into “Instant Processed Vietnam”

 

 

“Trump is personally losing the war in Iran. Trump is personally turning Iran into instant processed Vietnam! If we do not want the United States to lose this war, to be materially hurt by this moron’s buccaneering bullshit – and we don’t! We all live here! He has to go!...Iran could never - in a million years - harm this country as much as Donald Trump has harmed it, in the last two weeks.”
— Former MSNBC/ESPN host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, March 16.

 

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Hitler Never Said,” What Trump Just Said

 

 

“‘A whole civilization will die tonight.’ Hitler never said that. No head of state in the history of the world ever said that. Civilization had to wait literally thousands of years until today, April 7th, 2026 at 8:06 A.M. for a head of state to say and threaten ‘A whole civilization will die tonight.’ No cruel king ever threatened that, no mass murdering tyrant anywhere in the world ever said that, or even thought it was possible. And so, the United States of America now must live with the permanent stain on our history, that we are the only country in the world who has produced a head of state, who said, ‘a whole civilization will die tonight.’”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, April 7. 

 

Lawrence O’Donnell Attacks Barron Trump For Not Sailing Through the Strait of Hormuz

 

 

“Why doesn’t Barron Trump do what all those Harvard students did during World War II? Why doesn’t he leave college now and go join his father’s war? Why doesn’t Barron Trump donate his services as a crew member on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz? He doesn’t even have to join the military for that….Donald Trump said, ‘These ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz and show some guts, there’s nothing to be afraid of.’ Well, let’s prove there’s nothing to be afraid of by putting Barron on the deck of one of those ships.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, March 9.

 

Reza Aslan: U.S. “Has Been Doing the Tyrant’s Work” For Iran

 

 

“Look, an authoritarian regime, a tyrant, stays in power by isolating his people from the rest of the world. The United States has been doing the tyrant’s work for him in Iran for the last half-century. Our policy of containment, isolation and sanction as a hope for regime change has done the exact opposite. That’s just a fact.”
— Former CNN host Reza Aslan on PBS’s Amanpour and Company, March 13. 

 

Hitler Was Not as Bad as Trump, At Least He Wasn’t “Selling Merch”

 

 

“I think he’s [Donald Trump] like, a highly incompetent person trying to do an authoritarian attempt and trying to barnacle the authoritarian attempt with so much personal stealing or whatever, which, by the way, a lot of these authoritarians have the discipline to not do. I don’t know. Someone’s going to call me on. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t think Hitler was selling merch.”
— Frequent MS NOW guest Anand Giridharadas on Real Patriotism with Terry Moran, March 11.

 

Jim Acosta Laughing at “Very Funny” Protest Sign That Wishes Death on Donald Trump

 

 

“These are some very colorful and clever signs here. It says, ‘OK, cholesterol, do your job.’ I think I know what that means. That’s very funny. It’s very clever.”
— Former CNN correspondent laughing at anti-Trump signs at a No Kings rally in Washington DC as aired on The Jim Acosta Show podcast, March 28.  

 

Don Lemon: “I Could Be President” and “I Could Definitely Run This Country Better Than Donald Trump”

 

 

“Look, if I wanted to – I know people gonna think I’m crazy, this is gonna be the headline, and people are gonna laugh about it – I think I could be President of the United States. I could definitely run this country better than Donald Trump.”  
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon on Pod Save America, March 29.

 

Sunny Hostin: It’s “Reckless” to Encourage People to Have “Children” 

 

 

“I think it’s just really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know in this country there’s this affordability crisis and for a two-person household, a married household you need over $400,000 for childcare.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 30.  

 

Sen. Markwayne Mullin Shouldn’t Be In Charge of “Lawless Band of Masked Bandits” at ICE Because He Was an MMA Fighter 

 

 

“This man [Senator Markwayne Mullin] had been in Congress, and so he had governmental experience. He was also a talk show host. He was a construction worker. He was also a professional MMA fighter. And a plumber. I just don’t think that even with his government experience, someone with that sort of fighter mentality, who has been so aggressive, should be heading a lawless band of masked bandits!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 19.

 

Joy Behar: Trump Is a “Shell of a Human Being”

 

“He [Donald Trump] doesn’t care if there’s a war or that people are suffering or - I mean, he stopped AIDS relief for people in Africa. He’s just a shell of a human being.” 
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, March 18.

 

Whoopi: Trump Bombed Iran to Distract from Epstein Files and Savannah Guthrie’s Missing Mother

 

 

“I was thinking about it yesterday, because I thought, well, okay, why haven’t we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what’s going on there? Why haven’t we not been – why have we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that’s still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”
— Co-host Whoopi Goldberg on ABC’s The View, March 10.

 

Vice President J.D. Vance Is “Younger,” “Darker” and “A Lot More Evil” Than Trump

 

 

“Here’s the thing about JD Vance and I just, I want to put this memo out. We have a job in this left-wing media ecosystem. We need to muddy up his reputation as best we can. Everybody did a great job with the couch-fucking stuff. A+, no notes. This guy wants to be the heir apparent of MAGA. He’s younger, he’s darker, he’s a lot more evil. He’s a lot smarter than Trump. And he’s a lot easier to corrupt….He’s changed his name three times. He’s changed his religion three times. A grown adult has changed his name three times and changed his religion three times. He is a shape-shifting chameleon. I think it is neck-to-neck. Who is this country’s biggest prostitute? JD Vance or the First Lady?” 
— Podcaster/former reality show star Jennifer Welch on The Jim Acosta Show, April 1.  

 

Elitist Jimmy Kimmel: Sen. Markwayne Mullin Unqualified to Be DHS Secretary Because He Used to Be a Plumber

 

 

“Trump’s got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne ‘Chuck Mike Bruce Dave’ Melon — Mullin. Maybe Melon’s better. He’s the now former senator of Oklahoma. Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber. That’s right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. Well it worked for Super Mario. Why not Markwayne?”
— Host Jimmy Kimmel on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, March 24.

 

Charlamagne: When Trump Dies, “People Are Going to Treat It Like Mardi Gras!”

 

 

“You’re, you know, going to go down as the worst president of all time because you don’t give a damn about democracy, ok? Wiping your ass with the Constitution, and on pace to lead this country into the worst financial crisis of all time. But you are also – ok – putting yourself into a position that when you pass, people are going to treat it like Mardi Gras in New Orleans!” 
— Charlamagne Tha God on The Breakfast Club, March 23.

 

First Time In American History That an “Authoritarian Regime Has Broken Through”

 

 

“I’m speaking from the vantage point of a white person. I think black people in this country have experienced authoritarianism. I mean, Jim Crow, there were no rights for people who were black. This is the first time in the history of the United States that an authoritarian regime has broken through. And worldwide, historians who study these things, they all agree it has never happened so fast in any industrialized democracy. He is moving to consolidate very, very fast, which means that right now we have to use the tools we have to stop it.”
— Actress/activist Jane Fonda on MS NOW’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, March 27. 

 

Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che Makes Trump Assassination Joke 

 

 

“President Trump attended the opening night of Chicago at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the President is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?”
— Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che on Saturday Night Live, April 4. 

 

Bruce Springsteen Rants Against “Corrupt, Incompetent, Racist, Reckless and Treasonous” Trump Administration

 

 

“The America that I love, the America that I’ve written about for 50 years. That’s been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration! Tonight, we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear. Democracy over authoritarianism. The rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption. Resistance over complacency, unity over division, and peace over war.”
— Singer/activist Bruce Springsteen from the stage at the Target Center in Minneapolis, March 31. 

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