Michael Steele

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the three co-hosts and two guests all expressed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to supplant Gerry Connolly as the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee. Julian Castro hailed AOC's "fighting spirit." Michael Steele and Symone Sanders took some not-so-subtle shots at Nancy Pelosi for her support of Connolly. 

Appearing on MSNBC's The Weekend, ex-Republican Joe Walsh, a fierce Trump critic, said that Trump likes Pete Hegseth because he is a "pretty face," and that "Trump doesn't give a shit that Pete Hegseth has a history of treating women like shit. Because that's what Donald Trump has done. Trump doesn't care that he's an abuser and a harasser of women, because that is what Trump has been."

On MSNBC's The Weekend, in a discussion of the plan of DOGE leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to downsize government,  Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) says: "For too long, Democrats were about finding some win-win framing. And you know what, sometimes there's a villain. Sometimes there's a bad guy. And you got to punch him in the mouth and fight for your people. We need more of that in…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders attacks Nancy Pelosi. After a clip is played of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries questioning whether Trump's cabinet nominations are the best the country has to offer, twice mentioning RFK, Jr. by name, Sanders says: "That is why he the Leader. And that's what Speaker Emerita Pelosi should have been doing with her little…

On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders tears into Nancy Pelosi. Mocking her vaunted vote-counting ability, Sanders asks, "where's her calculator now?" And she blasts Pelosi for pushing for an open primary. Sanders also rips the strategists who "fleeced" the Kamala campaign. She suggests they should be exiled, as Hillary's 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook was…

Shades of Joe Biden in 2012, telling a largely black audience that Mitt Romney's "gonna put y'all back in chains." On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele teed up Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of The Squad, to suggest that Trump would take America back to the era of Jim Crow. Pressley upped the ante, saying: "We're on the precipice of going back again to Jim Crow—…

On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele says that "young brothers" in cities like Detroit, Atlanta, and Philly have become part of a "bro culture" in which they just want women to be "quiet and pregnant." He riffed off Michelle Obama describing herself as "frustrated" and "angry" at voters who let Trump's shortcomings slide, but demand that Kamala "dazzle us at every…

On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele -- a former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project -- took the occasion of Kamala Harris's release of health records to mock Donald Trump. Steele sneered that Trump "looks like Wally the Walrus" and is "old as dirt." Steele speculated that in his "little brain," Trump might have "brain worms,"…

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, Georgetown law professor Michele Goodwin somehow suggests that post-Dobbs law limiting abortion are the modern-day equivalent of slavery and Jim Crow laws, including those restricting the ability of African-Americans to play chess and checkers.

Just as it was when Hillary let "deplorables" slip in 2016, so it was with Michael Steele today, co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC.  After playing a clip of Trump suggesting that Kamala Harris might have been given the debate questions in advance, and had something in her ear transmitting instructions, Steele said: "I play that because, to the Vice President's point, this man is unserious. So,…

Using a string of boxing metaphors including "no mas" and "knocked down," Morning Joe mocks Donald Trump's debate performance and his decision not to do a second debate with Kamala Harris.

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders Townsend made an explicit call for violence against Trump. When MSNBC analyst Basil Smikle suggested that Kamala Harris shouldn't descend into "the gutter" with Trump, Sanders took issue: "Well, sometimes when they go low, you gotta kick 'em. You gotta -- boom! -- pop 'em in the shin real quick. And maybe we will see…

On MSNBC's The Weekend, MSNBC political analyst Kimberly Atkins Stohr, who's also a Boston Globe columnist, claims that Kamala Harris' "quote-unquote" policy changes are NOT a "shift," but simply a matter of "pragmatism."

On MSNBC's The Weekend, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson singles out Josh Shapiro for the most pointed criticism among all of Kamala Harris' leading VP possibilities. Johnson and Michael Steele, egged on by Symone Sanders-Townsend, work multiple mentions of "couch" into their discussion of JD Vance, a reference to a false and debunked claim about his personal life.