Michael Beschloss

On Friday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Brian Williams devoted a segment to comparing President Donald Trump to authoritarians, and suggested that millions of Americans who voted for him are "tyranny-curious." He also picked up on a tweet by NBC News historian Michael Beschloss to muse over what it might be like if President Trump were forcibly removed from the White House by the…

Michael Beschloss appears to be in a competition with Jon Meacham to see which MSNBC historian can say the most outrageous things in reaction to President Trump losing his bid for re-election. On Saturday night, Beschloss agreed with Joy Reid that Trump's defeat saved the country from fascism and was a win for democracy itself. On Monday, he warned Stephanie Ruhle that Trump is still president…

Early Wednesday night, CNN was measuring the White House drapes as they would return to power with Democrat Joe Biden poised to prevail in the election over President Trump, so it wasn’t all that surprising when presidential historian and LBJ aide Doris Kearns Goodwin went as far as comparing Joe Biden to Abraham Lincoln being reelected in 1864.

On Monday afternoon’s MSNBC Live, host Ayman Mohyeldin conspired with presidential historian Michael Beschloss to make deranged claims about the election. Beschloss prophesied that “we could lose our democracy,” to which Mohyeldin replied that if this election was in a foreign country that our “alarm bells would be going off.”

After President Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening, MSNBC and CNN hosts and guests alike got their talking points aligned to compare Trump's appearance on the Truman Balcony to Benito Mussolini. 

Before Amy Coney Barrett was formally announced as President Trump's appointee to the Supreme Court on Saturday, The 11th Hour guest host Katy Tur and historian Michael Beschloss warned the Court that moving too far right on abortion will justify Democratic attempts to pack the Court.

On Saturday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss sounded more like a partisan Democratic activist than an allegedly neutral analyst as he fretted that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had "stolen" a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama, and that President Donald Trump might steal the Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat, as the NBC News analyst…

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell welcomed NBC's official presidential historian Michael Beschloss onto her Monday show where the two alleged that President Trump's approach to the post office shows a contempt towards the constitution because the post office is a "sacred" and an indispensable part of constitutional government on par with the military.