Reacting to news that failed senate and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is being shuffled to the State Department for an unspecified job after not being installed as director of Voice of America (VOA), the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" rolled their eyes over the conservative now about to be "inflicted" on the world and not just the voters in Arizona.
Earlier in the week, it was reported that Lake, a former local news personality, was being shifted to Marco Rubio's State Department after Elon Musk's made noise about shutting down VOA, with no mention of exactly what she will do in her new job.
With the Washington Post reporting, "This is the first high-profile shuffle for a political appointee of the second Trump administration," former RNC chair Michael Steele weighed in on the plan to install Lake at VOA in the first place.
"So to put Kari Lake in charge of that, to dismantle it tells you everything you need to know about how silly and stupid these efforts are in the end, because there are nothing more than performative destruction of very viable programs and valid programs that help the United States," he told his co-hosts. "You want to know about our position? It's not just what's happening to us economically, but it's what's happening to us otherwise as well."
Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend contributed by reading from a column by Lori Roberts from the Arizona Republic.
Roberts wrote, "Since World War II, the Voice of America has been broadcasting across the globe, reaching people in oppressive places where a free press is only a pipedream. It’s supposed to operate independently of any presidential administration, which, naturally, makes it a prime target of Trump. Which, naturally, makes it a prime target of Lake, who now will be shuffled over to the State Department, of all places, doing something or other to try to end the agency she never got to run. And then what?"
Roberts then added, "Given that she’s already in the State Department, I’m thinking she’d make a wonderful ambassador. May I suggest ... Siberia?"
With Sanders Townsend calling Lake "despicable,' co-host Alicia Menendez smirked and added, "The title of that piece really sums it up well: "Kari Lake moves to the State Department. Sorry, world," which elicited laughter from the panel.
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