‘That’s Our Guy!’ MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Torches Trump Rally Fans Cheering On Trump’s ‘Racist White Supremacist’ Speeches

MSNBC host Jen Psaki torched Trump supporters cheering on “racist white supremacist” speeches from “Day One Dictator” Donald Trump — but warded off accusations of a “deplorables” moment.

Trump delivered another Hitler-echoing rant at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday, during which he also made amped-up versions of his usual claims and praised dictators like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. If the rally was intended to get attention — no matter the type — it succeeded.

On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki, Psaki opened her show by taking aim at the supporters who cheered on those speeches — and Trump’s promise to be a “dictator” but only “on day one”:

JEN PSAKI: The four times indicted Republican frontrunner is continuing to echo the language of Adolf Hitler and brag about compliments from Vladimir Putin. So that’s pretty much where we are right now. Donald Trump said all of that in New Hampshire just over the weekend, where Governor Chris Sununu just endorsed Nikki Haley…

But we do want to start tonight with what I hope will be a bit of a sober reminder of where the American electorate sits right now. It’s important for everyone to hear.

So this weekend, Trump once again echoed dictators, praised autocrats, repeated racist language, and was still cheered on by arenas packed with people who will cast their ballots in just over one month!

During that speech on Saturday in New Hampshire, Trump once again said immigrants are, quote, “poisoning the blood of our country.”.

Now, that’s clearly inflammatory. It’s dehumanizing, it’s white supremacist rhetoric. And as we mentioned on this show last time Trump said this, it very clearly echoes the words of Hitler.

In the same speech. Trump also called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “highly respected.”.

Yes, that is the same Viktor Orban, who dismantled democracy in Hungary and said he opposes a mixed race society.

Trump also noted that North Korean leader Kim Jong un is “very nice” — not words most people would use. Yes, the same Kim Jong un who consolidated power by executing anyone that stood in his way.

And Trump quoted Vladimir Putin, citing the time that Putin called the criminal cases into Trump “politically motivated.”.

Yes, the same Vladimir Putin, who is under investigation for war crimes and a notorious oppressor of free speech and freedom of the press.

For Donald Trump, that guy is once again being used as some sort of a validator in his campaign.

And in his speech the very next day here in Nevada, Trump kept at it, claiming migrants were invading the US from prisons and mental institutions while re-upping his promise to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history.

Now, if you’re sitting at home right now thinking, “That is terrible, that’s horrible. That is obviously not consistent with the language or values we should expect from an American president.”.

You are right. Believe me, I get it. I worked for two of them. You might be saying to your friends and neighbors, “this is not who we are!”.

You might be hoping this rhetoric will sink his campaign because who on earth could actually support and endorse this? The answer is, unfortunately, more people than you might think.

TRUMP FAN: Day. One Dictator, because you know what? We gon’ drill, baby, drill!

JEREMY HERRELL: Hey. How many people here? Now, normally, I know you probably wouldn’t in America, but considering what they’ve done to this man, how many people here support Day One Dictator?

TRUMP FANS: (CHEERS AND HOOTS)

JEN PSAKI: Now that’s just a representation. But they’re cheering, in that video, the Day One Dictator in New Hampshire, which holds the second crucial contest of this election cycle. So what about the first contest?

Well, a woman and a woman from northwest Iowa told The Washington Post recently, quote, “I love it. My kids call me a dictator. I thought my parents were dictators. He said he was only going to do it for a day. Like if you had a home that was in disrepair and your parents came in and they were firm and they wanted to get it done. And when you got done, you had this beautiful home. How could you be mad?”.

How could you be mad? But before the right wing accuses me of having a deplorables moment, which they probably will anyway, the audience for my point is actually not the people who agree with those comments or who are in those videos, but the ones who don’t. Probably the overwhelming majority of you watching right now.

Because as one of my first guests tonight writes, “A durable coalition seems fully comfortable entrusting the White House to the guy who left behind a capital encircled with a razor wire fence and 25,000 National Guard troops protecting the federal government from his own supporters. You can dismiss Trump voters all you want, but give them this: their every bit as American as any idealized version of the place. If Trump wins in 2024, his detractors will have to reconcile what it means to share a country with so many citizens who keep watching Trump spiral deeper into his moral void and still conclude, “Yes, that’s our guy.”

Watch above via MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki.