MSNBC Panel Absolutely Fawns Over Biden’s Performance at G7 Summit: He’s Playing ‘Chess,’ Trump is Playing ‘Hungry Hungry Hippo’

An MSNBC panel lauded President Joe Biden’s performance at this week’s G7 summit in Italy — and delighted in pointing out the differences between Biden and his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, on the world stage.

During a segment on MSNBC’s The Weekend Saturday, hosts Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez, and Symone Sanders-Townsend — along with guests Eugene Daniels of Politico and Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen — raved about the president’s performance at his meeting with fellow leaders.

“This was a great week for the president,” Steele said. “He’s having these back-to-back weeks — both the national stage and domestically. The economy, the numbers were strong. … How should the president’s team contextualize the these types of images, these types of moments, both now and going forward? As you have a 34 indicted former president running against him, wailing and speaking incoherently at rallies.”

After Daniels and Galen delivered their takes, Menendez made light of what she perceives to be the contrast between the two leaders.

“It’s amazing,” Menendez said. “Because you think about the fact that the president is playing chess, and the former president at best is playing, like, hungry, hungry hippo.”

“If that,” Sanders-Townsend said. “Maybe Uno. I’m gonna give him Uno. He’s playing Uno. And somebody keeps telling him Draw Four.”

The comments drew laughs from the panel, particularly Steele.

“The split screen this week, much like the split screen last week — we keep talking about the split screens that have happened,” Sanders-Townsend said. “And again, for everyone that’s saying, ‘Joe Biden seems a little too old.’ I don’t know about you, but from France, doing all these things, coming back to America, going back out to the G7 in Italy, now he’s on his way to L.A. right now as we speak to do another event. And I don’t know where Donald Trump has been. Oh yes, I do know where he’s been. Railing against the machine on a stage.”

Galen then added an utterly fawning assessment of Biden — whose approval rating this week hit an all-time low of 37.4%, according to FiveThirtyEight.

“This is a man who meets his moments,” Galen said. “He met his moment at the beginning. He met his moment with the economic crisis in the wake of Covid. hHe met his moment with Ukraine. He has met his moment over and over and over again.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.