Rachel Maddow tears apart Trump’s 'clownish nonsense'

Longtime MS NOW anchor Rachael Maddow said President Donald Trump is not the president he was in his last administration, after the onslaught of age and illness.

“I think that he is I know this I don't say this in a way that's meant to be cheap, but I feel like he's devolved in his own ability to communicate,” Maddow told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace.

“The Islamic Republic of Japan doesn't do it for you,” Wallace quipped.

“It's shockingly bad,” Maddow continued. “But I mean, not only can he not find the words that are supposed to go together to make the nouns, he can't form a political concept. Just as an example, this housing bill, right? Republicans want one concrete policy-related thing to run on that's not taking away everybody's health insurance, right? They want something else to run on and they've got it and they get it together. And Trump realizes, ‘wait a second, that's not about me.’ And so therefore, he has to get rid of it.”

“Even if you didn't agree with him, he could be a little strategic before,” Maddow argued, speaking of Trump’s first administration. “But he's become so, I think, emotionally incontinent that he can't control his own feelings enough to make politically savvy decisions. And so, Republicans are having to try to make politics around him rather than through him like they used to be able to do.”

This, said Maddow, makes Trump the biggest obstacle standing between Republicans and potential electoral success in November, which Maddow said leaves his party in “a mess right now.”

Wallace asked Maddow how Trump’s “emotional incontinence” is weighing in on international disasters like Trump’s unilateral war in Iran, and Maddow said the outcome is obvious.

“Yeah. I mean, what do you think it was like at the Pentagon when Trump announced the new policy of closing the Strait of Hormuz, and we, the United States of America Pirate Corps will be charging 20 percent of cargo to every ship.”

“What are you going to do? Go like take inventory and then write a bill?” Wallace demanded.

“But he's the commander in chief and he's saying that's our new policy. What do you do, sitting there at the Pentagon, whether you’re the Fox News guy who's like in charge [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], or whether you're an operational commander? Do you just wait till that obvious idiocy is negated by his next blurt, or do you try to operationalize that in the meantime until you hear that it's not happening?”

Maddow added that operational jobs in a place like the Pentagon are some of the hardest in the world with some of the highest stakes on earth, and employees are entrusted with incredible power.

“And for them to have to contend with that clownish nonsense from somebody who purports to be in charge — I don't think most of the time he's even in charge of his own faculties — it’s just not fair to them. It's asking them to do a job that's impossible to do,” said Maddow.

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