Former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer (YouTube Screengrab)
Former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer whacked President Donald Trump’s 2025 attack on comedians and entertainment as a sign of a weak man on MS NOW’s “The Weekend.”
“He's done [this] from day one,” said Setmayer. “He went after the media, calling them the ‘enemy of the people.’ which was straight out of the dictator playbook that we've seen from the 1930s and 40s with Mussolini and Hitler. This is exactly what strongmen do. And Donald Trump is the most thin-skinned, boring whiner. He is a whiner in chief. He whines constantly about anyone who dares to say anything negative about him, yet he tries to portray that he's this big, tough guy. Really? Because that doesn't sound like someone who is a well-adjusted adult who can handle criticism.”
Setmayer spoke directly to Trump’s Christmas Eve threat to terminate the broadcast licenses of networks featuring comedians who are “negative to President Donald J. Trump.”
“He doesn't care about the Constitution. He doesn't care about the freedoms that we enjoy. Here he is carrying out his dictator fantasies because he's surrounded by people who are a bunch of yes men and women who are letting him do whatever the hell he wants,” ranted Setmayer. “They come for the arts. That's one of the things that strongmen and authoritarian governments do. They come for the arts and comedy because it's a freedom of expression. And they want to control all of that.”
She also blasted Trump as “a failed wannabe Broadway producer … living his fantasies out with the Kennedy center desecration.”
“And now with the late-night [comedy] hosts and the fact that they are able to make fun of him — we all know that him being mocked is one of the worst things ever, which is why we continue to do it. So, keep mocking him. And too damn bad if he doesn't like it,” Setmayer said.