Alicia Menendez

To comment on Trump's cabinet nominees, Sunday's episode of MSNBC's The Weekend has Chuck Rocha, a Democrat strategist, as a guest.  In his previous position as a senior union official, Rocha had been convicted of one count of felony embezzlement, and “acknowledged responsibility for the other 17 counts." Rocha compared Trump's nominees to the contents of a "junk drawer."  

Early Friday, the MSNBC hosts of The Weekend disrespected the was firefighter Corey Comperatore who lost his life in a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Democrat Symone Sanders described that the tribute to Comperatore at the RNC was a “prop” that “sickened” her.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor claims that Biden plays chess, whereas Trump, at best, plays Hungry Hippos. Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend chips in to suggest Uno might be a better fit for Trump.  Sanders-Townsend claims that Biden's performance at the G7 summit refuted any notion that he might be "a little too old" for the job, thus ignoring a video of a doddering Biden wandering off…

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez tees up Michael Cohen, paraphrasing what Cohen had told Nicolle Wallace the day before, to say that he'll never get peace so long as Donald Trump is "with us," i.e., alive. 

The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend expresses its great frustration over voters not being sufficiently scared by Trump's rhetoric, and thus not stampeded into supporting Biden. The panel describes voters as being "numbed," not paying attention, and needing to be shaken by the shoulders and told to "snap out of it!"

On MSNBC's The Weekend, hosts and guests alike criticize President Biden for not attempting to stack the Supreme Court. Their criticism comes in response to oral arguments in the case regarding presidential immunity which led the panel to fear that the conservative majority might be planning to expand presidential immunity. 

On The Weekend, the MSNBC show she co-anchors, Symone Sanders-Townsend alleges that there was "a little sexism, a little racism" behind the investigation into Fani Willis' relationship with Nathan Wade, and that if it has been some many named "Frank" having a relationship with "Susie," it wouldn't have happened.

On The Weekend, the MSNBC show she co-anchors, Alicia Menendez says of Joe Biden: "As someone who experiences a ton of existential dread, I hope that I am this prolific in my 70s and getting this much done. It gives me some sense of calm."

On Deadline White House, MSNBC's Katie Phang says that being a friend of E. Jean Carroll doesn't color her legal analysis. Phang goes on to claim that Carroll "would have been happy to just get her day in court" against Donald Trump, and that rather than the multi-million-dollar awards, "maybe the best part of the experience was just having that moment of being able to tell her story to a jury…

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, Harry Litman, a former Bill Clinton appointee as a US Attorney, tells substitute host Alicia Menendez that Donald Trump, if elected in 2024, "There's no one he won't target out of a sense of revenge. Think of a guy with a machine gun, spraying everyone."

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, former Obama aide Ian Bassin proclaims that he has "high standards," but goes on to proclaim Biden's campaign speech near Valley Forge "absolutely outstanding."  Among the things Bassin praised Biden for was being "alive."

Trump is like Osama bin Laden? On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, Tim Heaphy, the chief investigative counsel for the House January 6 committee, says that Trump, just like Osama, can't shift the blame to intelligence agencies which failed to detect his plot.

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, retired federal judge Michael Luttig calls the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court "a masterful judicial opinion. It is unassailable and irrefutable in every single respect." He goes on to claim, "This is not politics. It is certainly not partisan politics. And the Supreme Court's decision yesterday was not a political decision in any sense of that word."…

MSNBC blithely reports that Biden made the sign of the Cross at the mention of the name of Lauren Boebert, the Republican congresswoman from Colorado. According to Catholic doctrine, the sign of the Cross is made when someone is afraid, or to ward off the Devil.