MS NOW anchor Rachel Maddow acknowledged on Monday (June 22) that no country wants a “bad president,” but noted how at least Donald Trump is a “bad president… who fails at everything he tries.”
On Monday’s edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, the journalist shared what she considers a silver lining of Trump’s presidency. “Generally speaking, having a bad president is bad for a country,” she said at the top of her show. “I mean, you don’t wish that on any country anywhere. Most particularly, you don’t wish it on a country that you love.”
“Having somebody at the top of a political pyramid, who is corrupt, who is incompetent, who seeks to stay in power even when he loses elections so he can build monuments to himself and basically loot the place… I mean, that’s just not good,” she added. “You wouldn’t wish that on any country. You certainly would not wish it on your own.”
She went on to say that when up “against someone with evil intent, the best you can hope for is that their intent will change” or “that they’ll be an incompetent buffoon who fails at everything he tries.”
“And in the case of Donald Trump, what we are experiencing right now is his compounding failures, his blustering incompetence and his illiteracy kind of paying off for us as a country,” Maddow stated.
She then listed just some of the president’s recent failures, including a Republican-appointed federal judge quashing the grand-jury subpoenas Trump’s Justice Department issued against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other officials.
Maddow also highlighted the shutdown of the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in Florida, the flawed renovation of the Reflecting Pool in the nation’s capital, and the widely criticized Iran deal.
“Right now, the opposition to President Donald Trump is ascendant and Trump is flailing in ways that are obvious to everyone,” Maddow added. “He’s a laughingstock, and his policies are failing and being abandoned and his supporters are fleeing.”