• Trump's poor choices for national security staffing have new relevance after Iran bombing
    Jun 24 2025

    Rachel Maddow reviews the cast of characters that staff important national security roles in the Trump administration, and whose lack of qualifications for their jobs matters even more now that Donald Trump's bombing of Iran has raised the threat level for Americans everywhere in the world.

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    43 mins
  • Defying Trump, Americans refuse to be denied their right to protest
    Jun 17 2025

    Rachel Maddow shows that despite Donald Trump's admonitions against protesting, and despite physical threats from local law enforcement, and despite genuine public safety concerns, Americans would not be denied their right to protest against Donald Trump and came out by the millions on Saturday for "No Kings" marches and rallies.

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    43 mins
  • Maddow: Military last resort in L.A. shows a weak president with no ideas and no political skills
    Jun 10 2025

    Rachel Maddow points out that the most important story of our era is not what Donald Trump is trying to do, but what the American people will allow him to do. Maddow notes that pushback works against Trump's authoritarian overreach, and the fact that Trump skipped ahead to the last resort of calling in the military against protesters in Los Angeles is a sign of his weakness, his lack of ideas, and his lack of political skills to turn his plummeting popularity around.

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    44 mins
  • Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants
    Jun 3 2025

    Rachel Maddow looks at fresh examples of communities across the United States rallying in defense of local immigrants being hunted by ICE agents, and notes that while Trump was open during the campaign about his policy of cruelty to immigrants, his expectation that Americans would support him in that cruelty was clearly misplaced.

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    44 mins
  • 'Our superpower': Trump confronted by diverse, robust pushback on 'a million' different fronts
    May 20 2025

    Rachel Maddow considers how the history of the Trump era will be written and how the defense of democracy and resistance to Trump authoritarianism will be seen as having a wide range of motivations, reflecting the breadth of Trump's catastrophe but also the consistency of America's defenders across demographics and interests.

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    43 mins
  • Why Donald Trump's medical records say more than he realizes
    May 13 2025

    Dr. David Kessler had previously described for Rachel Maddow how Donald Trump benefitted from the federal medical establishment in surviving a sever case of Covid, only to make drastic cuts to that institution, including firing the doctor responsible for Trump being able to receive his Covid treatment. Now Dr. Kessler returns to point out that Trump's medical records show another benefit of the federal medical system, and again he is cutting the very thing that has helped improve his health.

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    44 mins
  • Massive 'No Kings' protest expected to rain on Donald Trump's (military) parade
    May 6 2025

    Donald Trump is eager to fill out his autocratic profile with a display of military might in the form of a military parade. Anti-Trump activists are planning mass protests across the United States to make sure Trump Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, talks with Rachel Maddow about the effects protests are having on the Trump administration and the importance of local activism.

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    43 mins
  • 'Historic debacle': Trump sets new standard for poor presidential performance; Americans displeased
    May 1 2025

    Rachel Maddow reviews the many ways in which Donald Trump has made history with the first 100 days of his second term, though none of these achievements are anything to be proud of, and Americans are growing increasingly vocal about their displeasure.

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    42 mins