‘Hardball’ Panelist Attacks Lack of Intelligence in ‘Giant Toddler’ Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 15, 2017
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MSNBC’s Hardball often levels outrageous and conspiracy driven attacks against President Donald Trump, but on top of the usual assault, things got rather personal during Wednesday’s edition. “Now I'm starting to think that attributing anything as intelligent as a plan to Donald Trump is just unnecessary, I'm overegging the pudding,” mocked author P. J. O’Rourke when asked about Trump dubious claims of wiretapping, “This guy is just -- he's a giant toddler and there's nothing going around inside his head except, you know, when do I get to suck my thumb next?

“How do you write news for a news organization like Bloomberg which deals in numbers and facts, not a lot of thrills, just facts? What is the fact here,” host Chris Mathews then asked to Margaret Talev of Bloomberg, a chide aimed at the White House. It’s hypocritical for Matthews to chastise someone for not sticking to the facts when he pushed a conspiracy theory where he claimed Trump’s smile meant he was indeed in league with the Russians.

Matthews then turned his ire onto Press Secretary Sean Spicer for defending Trump’s claim by pointing out that the President’s use of quotation marks meant general forms of surveillance. “And then the other guy, Spicer's got the toughest guy in the world. I don't like what he's doing. This lobster thing he's doing,” mocked Matthews as he performed exaggerated air quotes and made a goofy face. 

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