'Disrespected MAGA': Ex-senator thinks Trump snubbed his supporters at inauguration

Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that the one shocking thing she saw from President Donald Trump was just how "disrespectful" he was to his MAGA supporters who got him where he is.

She began by talking about being in Washington, D.C., and said that it wasn't all that cold, certainly not as cold as it had been at previous inaugurations, like the one in 2009.

"This really was about Trump wanting to control the image, maybe worried about his hair, but really worried about crowd size and whether or not the crowd size would be big enough with the cold weather to support the ego that he has behind that particular metric," said McCaskill.

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However, "the overriding theme from everybody I've talked to is how he disrespected the MAGA crowd. The MAGA crowd is stuck over in an arena, and there are only 20,000 people that could even fit in there and the rest of them came to town and spent a lot of money, and frankly, he didn't really care about them," she said.

She pointed out that top positions in the Capitol Rotunda went not to elected officials from around the country or MAGA loyalists who were willing to go to prison for him after the Jan. 6 attack.

"He put the billionaires before his cabinet on the dais," continued McCaskill. "And that's what everybody was astounded by, that there seemed to be no — and even in the second rambling speech he gave down in the visitor center, those people in that room weren't the MAGA faithful. They were donors. They were wives of congressmen. They were spouses of congresswomen. They were not what you'd see at a rally."

She said it was an indication that Trump never gave a thought to the people who put him there.

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