By design, Rachel Maddow doesn’t pay much attention to Donald Trump’s words on her MS NOW show. Maddow doesn’t have many, if any, video clips of Trump. She does not quote Trump at length. One of cable news’ most watched hosts is reminding her viewers to always pay attention to the actions behind Trump’s words.
When Trump gives a big speech like a State Of The Union, One of the highlights of Maddow hosting the MS NOW roundtable is that she often checks the president in real time with quick fact checks.
Watch Jason’s response to Trump’s SOTU:
After Trump’s late State Of The Union, Maddow was quick to offer corrections to some of Trump’s biggest lies.
Maddow said:
You just experienced the longest State of the Union address in the history of the State of the Union. It wasn’t just the feeling you had, it was the math. Over an hour and 47 minutes, the president blows out of the water, the previous record for the longest State of the Union address ever, a record he himself set last year in terms of the length of the speech, what’s probably the most important thing people took away from the speech was how painfully long it was. Part of that was because of the pace.
The president delivered this speech at two remarkably different speeds. Right at the beginning. He spoke very quickly and very excitedly, and he struck out a number of glaring lies about economic matters.
Right at the beginning of the speech. He talked about inheriting the worst inflation in the country’s history, completely ignoring the fact that the worst inflation in the country’s history occurred in the 1980s and 20s. He then talked about gas prices and dramatically misrepresented them.
Read more about Maddow’s fact check and watch the video below.
