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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.