Rachel Maddow and MSNBC Colleagues Mock Trump Over ‘Empty’ Washington, DC and ‘Sparse’ Inauguration Crowd
The faces of MSNBC mocked President-elect Donald Trump over the number of people lining the streets as his motorcade proceeded toward the Capitol Building on Monday morning.
“Also just, I should just note a remarkable thing that we’re seeing here is an empty Washington, D.C.,” remarked Rachel Maddow to begin the festivities.
“Aren’t there hundreds of thousands of people there?” asked Chris Hayes sarcastically.
“Yeah, I mean, you can see some people there on the side, it’s sort of sparse. There are some Trump supporters who are there, but they are-, there are not very many people there at all. And the protests are also not visible in large numbers. We saw People’s March this weekend in Washington, which did have thousands of people at it, but not, nothing on the scale that we saw in 2017, but also Trump supporters there and much fewer, in much smaller numbers,” continued Maddow. “And that may be because the inaugural festivities have been moved indoors. But honestly, I expected this — there’s somebody there with the Ukraine flag, I doubt that’s a Trump supporter — I expected there to, I expected this shot that we had here to be 20 deep on both sides of the street the whole way up.”
“And it’s really, it’s really not. It’s an interesting thing, it reminds me a little bit of — forgive me for making this analogy — but it reminds me a little bit of the predictions of mass, mass crowds for Trump at each of his indictments and court proceedings, when we saw these small little gaggles of people, certainly his supporters turned out, but not in numbers that were anything like you would think from the discourse around it,” she concluded.
“And also, Joy [Reid] mentioned this before, but the coldest morning I’ve ever spent in my life was 6 a.m. to 1:00 on January 20th, 2009, when it was about 20 degrees out, and it was so cold and there were hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of people in the streets freezing. I mean, truly freezing,” jumped in Hayes. “So, you know, it’s cold there, but-”
“It does speak a bit to the kind of, the sort of lonely progress of oligarchy, right?” added Reid. “I mean, MAGAism isn’t a mass movement. It isn’t a broad movement among the American people. It’s a movement about of a third of American adults. It’s not a movement of great popular culture. I think Snoop [Dogg] has found that out over the weekend, and Nelly have found out that, ‘Oh wait a minute, it isn’t a broadly beloved movement.’ And I think this kind of speaks to it.”
Trump and his communications team famously insisted — against all evidence — that the crowd at his first inauguration was the largest in history
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