'You numskulls!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow unloads over Trump's 'transgender mice' claim

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow let the insults spew Friday night as she sounded off on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress over the wild – and false – claim that the government supposedly spent millions to make “mice transgender.”

The network host opened her primetime show by ripping into Trump’s whopper of a claim during his Tuesday address to Congress, which she couldn't help but poke fun at over the weak viewer ratings the spectacle attracted.

“I know you didn't listen to Trump's speech to Congress this week – I saw the numbers,” she said with a laugh. “It was the least watched Trump State of the Union or joint speech to Congress of all the ones he's given. So I know you didn't watch. But one of the things he said in his speech was that one of the terrible, liberal things that his top campaign donor had discovered was happening in government was research to make mice transgender.”

She continued to paint the scene leading up to Trump’s baseless mice claim, telling viewers that “Republicans gasped and laughed and jeered because that was so terrible.” But she quickly delivered a cold dose of reality to the episode just six weeks into Trump’s new term.

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“Actually, it's transgenic mice," Maddow said as she emphasized the word. "And transgenic mice are used in all kinds of laboratory research because mice are transgenic when they have been genetically altered so you can study human illnesses and conditions in them, even though they're mice."

“It is transgenic mice you numskulls,” the MSNBC host emphatically added as she appeared to grow more frustrated. “But sure, go ahead and shut down all the labs studying all the diseases because what are you, 5?”

Maddow continued to spend her Friday night opening monologue highlighting the pushback to Trump’s policies sparking nationwide protests.

“People are pushing back in numbers big and small – in some big national organizing efforts like we saw today, in little local uproars like we saw today, in town halls, whether or not they can shame the Republican congressman into actually turning up,” she said.

She concluded: “I absolutely believe that information is power and so is getting up and doing something about it. Everybody’s doing their part.”

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