‘God Help Us’: Chris Matthews Struggles To Answer Whether Trump Believes He’s a ‘Good Guy’

Chris Matthews compared President Donald Trump to The Godfather’s Michael Corleone when asked to break down whether Trump thinks he’s a “good guy.”

Matthews joined Ari Melber on Tuesday’s The Beat, where he was promoting his new book, Lessons From Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters.

“Does Trump think he’s a good guy?” Melber asked Matthews at one point.

“God help us,” Matthews said, “because he doesn’t understand the truth.”

“I mean, you ask him about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin killing people and he says, well, you know, we kill people too,” Melber responded.

“What is he? Is he Michael Corleone?” Matthews asked, referring to Al Pacino’s mafia boss character from The Godfather trilogy, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

“The whataboutism that infects these debates, and I want to hear from you on this, is Trump tries to move the barrier down, say, oh, well, they do it. They do it. They always do it,” Melber said.

The MSNBC host asked Matthews whether Trump’s style is “grating” to the public, and Matthews admitted that even with pro-MAGA family members, he can’t figure out Trump’s appeal.

“There’s a horrible thing about his ability to get people to agree with him. I don’t quite get it. I have family members like this, in-laws like this. I do not get it, I argue enough,” Matthews, the longtime host of MSNBC’s Hardball, said.

Matthews went on to call this coming Thanksgiving a “minefield” for families when it comes to politics, while Melber argued politics has completely consumed “culture.”

“I don’t lead them in their thinking, but I’ll tell you, everybody knows that you walk into a Thanksgiving dinner this year, a couple weeks now, into a minefield,” Matthews said.

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