Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan isn’t ready to give in to pressure that voters are receiving exactly what they asked for with President Donald Trump’s shakeup of the federal government in his first weeks in office.
Hasan on Wednesday launched into a passionate rebuke of the persistent claim in MAGA world that Trump’s election victory in November handed him free reign to usher in radical changes – inside the federal government and around the world – that the American public wasn’t privy to before Election Day.
The pushback came during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” as he railed against the new Trump administration, and tried to set the record straight on the reality of the president’s win.
“I keep hearing this line, 'This is what people voted for.' No, they didn't," Hasan said Wednesday. “I don't remember him on the campaign trail saying, I'm going to take over Gaza. He didn’t promise it and by the way, the American public don’t want it.”
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The journalist added: “So this is a lot of BS that’s being pushed, that they are somehow popular, that they have a mandate. They won by 1.5% in the popular vote. He didn't win a majority of the popular vote. He didn't say he was going to do half the stuff he's doing. I don't remember war with Denmark being on the ballot.”
Trump stunned onlookers, including some lawmakers on Capitol Hill, last week when he announced the U.S. would take over the Gaza Strip and transform it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
He has also repeatedly insisted the country would purchase Greenland for national security purposes while refusing to rule out a hostile takeover of the territory.
