Trump gleefully mocks Ronna McDaniel as being in 'Never Neverland' after NBC firing
Less than a week after hiring her as a contributor, NBC News announced that it had fired former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel. And former President Donald Trump has been quick to ridicule her in response.
In an official statement on Tuesday, March 26, the NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said, "There is no doubt that the last several days have been difficult for the News Group. After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor."
The New Republic's Tori Otten, in an article published on March 27, observes, "The dismissal comes just weeks after McDaniel was unceremoniously ousted as Republican National Committee chair, at Trump's behest. And the Republican presidential nominee wasted no time in piling onto McDaniel's woes."
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Trump expressed no sympathy for McDaniel on his Truth Social platform.
In a March 27 post, the 2024 GOP presidential nominee posted, "Wow! Ronna McDaniel got fired by Fake News NBC. She only lasted two days, and this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear. It leaves her in a very strange place, it's called NEVER NEVERLAND, and it's not a place you want to be. These Radical Left Lunatics are CRAZY, and the top people at NBC ARE WEAK."
McDaniel was hardly the only political insider hired by a major television news organization. The hosts at MSNBC include a former GOP congressman (Joe Scarborough), a former White House press secretary (Jen Psaki), a former George W. Bush Administration communications director (Nicolle Wallace) and a former RNC chairman/ex-Maryland lieutenant governor (Michael Steele).
But when NBC News' hired McDaniel as a pundit, a long list of MSNBC hosts — including Scarborough, Wallace and Rachel Maddow — were vehemently critical of the decision in light of her willingness to promote former President Donald Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Liberal Maddow had no problem with MSNBC hiring a conservative GOP insider; it was McDaniel's connection to the Big Lie that Maddow had a major problem with.
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Maddow told her MSNBC colleague Joy Reid, "It's not about hiring a Republican — it's not even about hiring someone who has Trump ties. This was a really specific case because of Ms. McDaniels' involvement in the election interference stuff. And I'm grateful that our leadership was willing to do, I think, the bold, strong, resilient thing."
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