Rachel Maddow was all over what she called an “inadvertently hilarious press release” issued by the Trump administration that attempted to clean up plans to close dozens of Social Security offices across the country — which the MSNBC host spent her opening monologue blatantly mocking.
Maddow spent the first half of her show on Monday highlighting the growing protests to various Trump administration policies nationwide, including cuts to government personnel and programs, which she credited for creating pressure against their actions.
“Now that there has been pushback that they can't handle, they’re just pretending that they weren't attacking Social Security at all," she said. "Nice try.”
The primetime host, who has emerged as a staunch critic of President Donald Trump in his second term, seemed especially bothered by the administration’s efforts to dismantle the Social Security Administration because of who the cuts will ultimately affect.
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“It's profoundly dangerous what they are doing and that's why you're seeing not only old people and disabled people who get Social Security revolting, you're seeing every American with a drop of empathy in their soul revolting over that,” Maddow told viewers on Monday.
"Because to do something that irresponsible and cruel to a population to whom we owe so much, and that is by definition in need of what that agency provides them, and potentially frail or unable to advocate for themselves when they are hurt by what this administration is doing, yeah, there's going to be pushback with you guys messing with Social Security.”
Maddow concluded that “all the yowling that the American people are doing against Trump and Musk and what they're doing” is paying off.
“We definitely never published this very detailed list of dozens of Social Security offices that we were going to close,” Maddow said in a mocking tone. “And then, oh, when the blowback and the pushback against us doing that knocked us on our butts, we definitely just didn't decide to pretend that it wasn't us and that we'd never said that.”
