Elitist Media ‘Embarrassed’ by ‘Failed Experiment’ America Led by ‘Tyrant’ Trump 

Geoffrey Dickens
July 8th, 2026 10:02 AM

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This past month saw people from all over the world having their minds blown by the greatness of the U.S.A.

From Asia to Africa, World Cup fans couldn’t get over the many benefits of living in America: air conditioning, free refills, barbecue, and Buc-ee’s. They realized their media had sold them the lie that this nation was a terrible place.

This past month also saw the American elitist media repeat that same lie to their audiences.

From Sunny Hostin whining that she was “embarrassed” by the “failed experiment” that is America to Robert De Niro griping that he “can’t love a country led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant,” these are just a few of the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the past month:

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Sunny Hostin: I’m “Embarrassed” by America, It Is a “Failed Experiment” 

 

 

“I am embarrassed at our government. I’m embarrassed at our lack of healthcare. I’m embarrassed on the assault on the press. I’m embarrassed of our Congress. I’m embarrassed by the criminal felon president that is in the Oval Office that has a UFC cage on the White House lawn. I’m embarrassed about all those things. And I’m also embarrassed at how America is now seen across the globe. I don’t think that many Americans understand that we are part of a wonderful global community. And when you look at our allies, our allies are now giving us a one-star rating as a country. Why I am conflicted about this country because I feel that it is, at this point, a failed experiment, quite frankly.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 5.

 

Joy Reid: “Nobody Black” is “Excited About the Fourth of July” 

 

 

“Nobody black I know is really excited about the Fourth of July. Because it is a, it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.”
— Former MS NOW host Joy Reid on her podcast, June 19.

 

Eddie Glaude on America’s 250th Birthday: I Have Not “Found Joy” in Singing the Star Spangled Banner 

 

 

Co-host Mike Barnicle: “But my question to you is, do you see optimism at the end of this July 4th rainbow?”
Contributor Eddie Glaude: “No, no Mike, I don’t. And it comes about, I think that, that orientation follows from, from my own formation. I don’t think I’ve ever teared up around patriotism. I don’t ever think I found joy in singing the Star Spangled Banner.” 
— MS NOW’s Morning Joe, June 30. 

 

America is a “White Republic” That “Takes the Form Where Greed and Selfishness and Grift and Hatred Overwhelm”

“We’ve imagined ourselves at once as a beacon of freedom, and as a white republic. And that white republic takes the form where greed and selfishness and grift and hatred overwhelm, in so many ways, our attempt to overwhelm and overrun our most basic principles.”
— Contributor Eddie Glaude on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, June 30. 

 

CNN Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday: “There is a Slur” in the Declaration of Independence

 

 

“There is a slur in America’s founding documents….a list of grievances against the king. A series of reasons the colonies wanted to split from the United Kingdom. And this is the final one. ‘He has excited domestic insurrections among us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.’ ‘Merciless Indian savages.’ Words in the Declaration of Independence largely forgotten that line and Native Americans place in the celebrations of the 250 years since our nation’s founding.”
— CNN anchor Victor Blackwell on CNN’s First of All, June 27, 2026.

 

“Donald” Is Now the New “Adolf” of Baby Names

 

 

“Well, Donald Trump has scored his lowest job approval rating yet in a Reuters poll at 34 percent. And we have what could be another measure of Donald Trump’s unpopularity and disapproval: baby names. Donald is the new Adolf. The baby name Donald has hit its lowest point in popularity in American history….Adolf dropped rather dramatically in popularity after Adolf Hitler executed six million Jewish people in death camps while he was losing World War II before he took his own life.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, June 23. 

 

Scott Pelley: Unlike Trump, I’ve Been in Combat for This Country

 

 

“I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country....You become a journalist because you love the country....There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”
— Former CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on The New York Times podcast with Lulu-Garcia Navarro, June 7.  

 

“Tearing Down” of 60 Minutes is “Un-American” and is “Hurting This Country”

“It is absolutely un-American. It is absolutely contrary to the values and ideals of this democracy. And - you know - I don’t see anybody else really saying this kind of stuff, so I’m going to say this, that what they are doing is damaging to this country. Bari Weiss, you are hurting this country when you try to tear down an institution like 60 Minutes.”
— Jim Acosta on his Substack show, June 4.  

 

Trump’s Name Being Removed from Kennedy Center is Like Fall of Berlin Wall

“This is a giant waste of time, and it’s a sign of what a petulant man-child he [Donald Trump] can be. But as we’ve been saying all night long and all day long, for that matter, this is very much like watching the Berlin Wall coming down. It is a sign that mankind, that humankind can stand up against tyranny.”
— Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta live-streaming on his podcast The Jim Acosta Show, June 13. 

 

UFC Fight is Degrading the White House

 

 

“This, a cage fight on the South Lawn of the White House, the people’s house, that also has corporate sponsorship that you can see inside the ring, this— talk about degrading the culture. This is degrading the White House, degrading the people’s house. And it’s just unconscionable that this has happened.”
— PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS News Hour, June 12. 

 

Robin Roberts to Barack Obama: Your Presidential Center is About the “Promise of Democracy,” So How Do You Deal with the “Freedoms Being Taken” By Trump?  

 

 

“And walking the halls here, the museum really, it’s about the promise of democracy. And it’s very difficult for people right now when they feel a lot of their freedoms are being taken from them. They’re very familiar now with Project 2025, many of your policies are being rolled back. How do you when you see these things, these things happening, how do you deal with that?”
— ABC’s Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts to President Barack Obama, June 17. 

 

The Only Reason People Think Barack Obama Was Liberal Is Because He’s Black

 

 

Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd: “What policy was he [Barack Obama] that liberal on, Chris? It’s one of the biggest-”
Former CNN correspondent/current NewsNation contributor Chris Cillizza: “It’s because he was black.”
Todd: “Thank you. The only reason people think he was liberal is because he’s black.” 
— So What with Chris Cillizza podcast on Substack, June 22. 

 

We Have to “Pinch Ourselves” to Realize We Got to Cover One of the “Greatest Presidents” in Obama

 

 

“Barack Obama, you know, John [Harwood], and maybe you and I will have to pinch ourselves and say we got to cover this when it happened. But this, you know, he was our generation’s JFK, and, you know, he is going to go down in history, I think, as one of our greatest presidents.”
— Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta on The Jim Acosta Show podcast, June 18.

 

Gayle King Gushes Over Obama Presidential Center Tour, Speeches

 

 

“I took a tour on Wednesday, three hours, and it wasn’t enough time…But what got me yesterday were the performances, and Michelle Obama and Barack Obama’s speeches. We all know what great speakers they are, but I think it came flooding back to so many people, how much their words, and how powerful they are. Barack Obama said the most important words in the English language are ‘we’. And I think that speaks volumes for who they are and what they represent. ‘We.’”
— Co-host Gayle King on CBS’s Mornings, June 19. 

 

Obama is Most Known for “Bridging Divides and Finding Common Ground”

 

 

“This week, the Obama Presidential Center opened to the public in Chicago, a lasting tribute to the nation’s 44th President. But long before the White House, Barack Obama was a little known Illinois state senator who burst onto the national stage with his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Just months later, after winning his election to the U.S. Senate, Obama joined Meet the Press to talk about a theme that would come to define his political career: bridging divides and finding common ground.”
— NBC News White House reporter Garrett Haake sub-hosting NBC’s Meet the Press, June 21. 

 

Sunny Hostin to Vice President Vance: Your Administration is Erasing Black People

 

 

“I’m talking about a host of things. I’m talking about black history getting erased from public spaces. Black voter districts are being dismantled. Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks. Where do Americans of color fit in this vision?! Because it doesn’t seem like we fit!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin to Vice President J.D. Vance on ABC’s The View, June 16.

 

Sunny Hostin: “Morals Matter” But Democrats Need the Senate, “Vote for Platner!”

 

 

“Look, I don’t think Republicans – at this point – can ask us to take the moral high ground. That is over, at this point. That is over. I am sorry. Democrats have always fallen in love and Republicans have always fallen in line. It’s time for Democrats to stop that nonsense, put emotions on the side, let’s be strategic, let’s get some power, let’s take over the Senate and let’s take over the House and let’s right the ship! Let’s get our country back! I am sorry, I am someone that believes in character, I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country, I would — if I lived in Maine I would hold my nose and I would vote for Platner! I would!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 10.  

 

Joy Behar Thinks Every Public Service, Including Picking Up the Trash, is “Socialism”

 

 

“If I fall down, I want an ambulance. If my house is on fire, bring your hose. You know what I mean?...I’m not scared of the term. I think they’re scared of the term in this country! But Social Security is a democratic socialism. Partly unemployment insurance is. The people who pick up your garbage, the people who take the fire out of your house. All of these are democratic socialism.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, June 24.

 

Rosie O’Donnell’s Crackpot Conspiracy: Trump Will Cancel the Elections

 

 

“I don’t think he’s [Donald Trump] going to try to steal it. I think he’s going to come up with some big tragedy. We’re going to have an event here in the United States and some capacity, maybe another assassination attempt. And he’s going to declare that the elections are off. That’s what I think is going to happen because that’s in the fascist playbook… They’re sending out ICE out in force on election day. Yeah. And as if it was not the biggest story in America that they just threatened every person of color at the voting booth.”
— Comedian Rosie O’Donnell on The Jim Acosta show podcast, June 17.

 

Robert De Niro: “I Can’t Love a Country Led by a Racist, Misogynist, Xenophobic Tyrant”...

 

 

“I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love the country that’s led by Donald Trump and a sycophant Congress.”
— Actor Robert De Niro at Rise Up, Sign Out: A Concert for the First Amendment, June 14.

 

...Say It With Me! Shut the F*** Up Trump! 

“When I hear Trump say, as he did a few days ago, I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation, not even a little bit, I say shut the fuck up. On Wednesday, Trump said, I love the inflation. Now say it with me. Shut the fuck up! Trump said he won the 2020 election. Ready? Shut the fuck up.”
— Actor Robert De Niro at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment, June 14. 

 

Larry David on UFC Fight on White House Lawn: I Was Embarrassed to Be An American

“It [UFC 250 fight on White House lawn] was a travesty. What else can you say about it? It was embarrassing. I was embarrassed to be an American.”
— Comedian Larry David in a red carpet interview given to Variety, June 23. 

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