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Amidst the discussion on MSNBC’s Hardball late Tuesday concerning President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department, host Chris Matthews was apoplectic at the notion that a Trump administration would “desecrate” Jerusalem by moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.
Matthews emphasized that such a move could single-handedly cause the entire Middle East to “blow up” as well as anger Muslims by “desecrat[ing]” the holy sites for both Jewish and Muslim people.