Matthews: Trump Speech Was ‘Hitlerian,’ Jokes He Could Fix Nepotism Laws By Hanging Son-in-Law
By Curtis Houck | January 20, 2017 | 4:47 PM EST
0
shares
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was a living, breathing edition of Notable Quotables on Inauguration Day, offering takes ranging from joking about Mussolini and former President George W. Bush hugging Supreme Court justices to this now-infamous quip that President Trump’s speech was “Hitlerian.”
Matthews’s Nazism connection went hand-in-hand with other media reactions to Trump’s inaugural address, but this one came roughly 30 minutes after it ended.
“But I’m thinking when he said today ‘America First’ it was not just the racial, I mean the, um, I shouldn’t say racial, the Hitlerian background to it. But it was the message I kept thinking, what is Theresa May thinking this morning, when she picks up the papers and goes ‘My God, what did he just say, he said America first, what happened to the special relationship,’” Matthews complained.
Source URL:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/01/20/matthews-trump-speech-was-hitlerian-jokes-he-could-fix-nepotism