This week’s Liberal Media Scream features MSNBC’s Chris Matthews comparing President Trump to former Uganda strongman Idi Amin and charging that they both governed like children.
In a Hardball segment tied to critical comments about President Trump by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Matthews insisted “I’m not a Trump hater,” then said, “I see a president running the country…with crayons.”
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He added, “This guy is Idi Amin. You know, when they found Idi Amin, the guy running Uganda, finally, they found he had toys in his room. He was actually spending his time playing with toys.”
Matthews, on MSNBC’s Hardball on Thursday August 29:
“I’m not a Trump hater. Personally, I’m not a Trump hater. It doesn’t work with me, that hating thing, but I see a president running the country, the greatest country in history maybe, with crayons. I want Greenland in crayons. It’s like a kid with, an eight-year-old with crayons. I want to make more money down in Doral. I like this guy Boris Johnson, who just suspended the Parliament, the mother of all parliaments, just got rid of the parliament. It’s Magna Carta is at stake here and he says, I like this guy’s style. This is an eight-year-old. If Mussolini was around today, he would say, I love that guy’s chin, the way it sticks out. I mean….
“This guy is Idi Amin. You know, when they found Idi Amin, the guy running Uganda, finally, they found he had toys in his room. He was actually spending his time playing with toys. Anyway, I love my history. Anyway, thank you. Even when it’s weird like that.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Yes, it is weird to say you’re not a Trump hater and then proceed to call Trump ‘an eight-year-old with crayons,’ say a fascist dictator would admire him and that he ‘is’ a modern incarnation of a mass murderer. Trump could do without defenders like Matthews, but that’s about the best he can get from MSNBC.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
