MSNBC cuts broadcast of Trump's victory speech and brutally fact-checks him instead
March 06, 2024
MSNBC stopped broadcasting Donald Trump's Super Tuesday victory speech so he could be fact-checked.
Just minutes into Trump's speech, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow seemed disgusted with the broadcast.
"Why don't we fact-check the hell out of him?" co-host Stephanie Ruhle offered.
"It does not fix the fact that we broadcast it," Maddow griped.
"Let's just go through it, right?" Ruhle said before breaking down Trump's speech. "We have had the best economic recovery of any country in the developed world."
"He's telling an audience right there, oh, my goodness, that the paltry oil production — we're producing more oil today than we ever have in the history of our country," she continued. "Think about the American rescue plan, the infrastructure plan. We have created more jobs, 3.2 million more jobs than we had pre-pandemic."
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Ruhle noted that people blame the government for inflation but don't credit it for wage growth.
"And one of those reasons wages are up is all the union wins in the last two years," she observed. "And remember, President Biden has stood with those unions, the most pro-union president in American history for numbers."
Co-host Joy Reid blasted Trump for failing to protect the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"You had one crisis, bro," Reid said. "It was called the pandemic."
Watch the video below from MSNBC.