On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, the HBO host repeated his usual conspiracy theory that Trump won't leave office voluntarily if he loses. Then he added that when the coronavirus gets bad, the president "will declare martial law."
On MSNBC Live, anchor Hallie Jackson tees up a harsh quote from Donald Trump Jr., and Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) suggests he would have a "serious altercation" with the president's son if he said that in his presence.
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel bowed in honor and glory to Adam Schiff, the congressman from Hollywood. "You have an office down the street!" Whoop dee doo.
In the early hours of Thursday on CNN, Democrat strategist Caroline Heldman guessed the coronavirus is a "very good opening for Democrats," inspiring righteous indignation from Rush Limbaugh on his Thursday afternoon program.
On Monday's edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Trevor Noah mocked Joe Biden for telling fairy tales about he was arrested in South Africa for trying to meet with Nelson Mandela.
Isn't it the job of the press to vet candidates? Yet on ABC, Chris Christie says the press doesn't seem to want to vet Bernie Sanders now that he's the front-runner for the Democrats.
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Justin Chang pleased anchor Brooke Baldwin by ripping Donald Trump for praising really old movies Gone with the Wind and Sunset Boulevard as a racial "dog whistle." He said Trump shouldn't talk about movies, since he's so "woefully ignorant." [HT: Grabien]
Filling in for Brian Stelter on Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN's John Avlon uncorked a smug little commentary on how Donald Trump praised the classic movie Gone With The Wind, which is "profoundly racist by today's standards."
PBS NewsHour pundit Mark Shields concluded his punditry on Friday with a very odd analogy, comparing the 2020 Democrats to the Founding Fathers, fighting a tyrannical King George III, who is somehow like President Trump.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell sounded like a bad Hollywood screenplay on Thursday night. And he's written a few bad screenplays for Hollywood in his time. Long after the Mueller Report fizzled, O'Donnell took the latest newspaper scribblings of conspiracy theory and concluded for his network's rabid Democrat audience: "The president is a Russian operative."