MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday took Donald Trump to task over his often inflammatory speeches after a strange tangent during his Las Vegas rally over the weekend.
During an interview with Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Maddow said that while she feels the network should not carry the former president’s speeches live, “it is worth knowing what he’s saying.”
“And it’s worth conveying that when it’s something dangerous, when it’s something new, when it’s something newsmaking — and indeed when it is nonsense,” she added.
Speaking about Trump’s odd comments at a recent rally in Las Vegas in which he hypothesized whether it would be worse to be electrocuted or bit by a shark — a seeming effort to criticize electric vehicles — Maddow said, “it was complete gibberish,” adding that “it’s not the first time he has done it.”
“Like, where are the Las Vegas sharks?” the MSNBC host asked, commenting on the fact that the area is entirely landlocked. “Are they freshwater sharks? Are they in the fountains in Las Vegas?”
“The shark-boat thing, to me, I think it has two points of resonance,” said Maddow. “And one of them is, what the heck is he talking about? This is weird. This doesn’t make any sense. He’s really, really, frequently incoherent. And when he’s not incoherent, he’s speaking in terms that are like pornographically violent when he is trying to rile up his audience. I mean, he speaks in ways that I think would be shocking to a lot of Republican people if they could stand to listen to him longer than they do and if news organizations could responsibly broadcast more.”