Revolving Door: Dem Senator Turned NBC Pundit McCaskill Trashes 'King' Trump #Politics #RedPills
You may remember Claire McCaskill as the Senator from Missouri who lucked her way to re-election in 2012 by having Todd Akin as her opponent and whose final pitch to the voters in her 2018 re-election campaign was “I’m not one of those crazy Democrats.” She would go down to lose to now-Senator Josh Hawley by six points in 2018. Well, the former Senator has now found a home as an NBC News political analyst.
On a Monday segment of Morning Joe, she made a particularly off-base comment by accusing President Trump of “throne envy” with regards to his meeting with the royal family in London. It is difficult to tell whether she was serious or making an unfunny joke, but it shows that the gaffe machine that McCaskill was as a Senator has followed to her cable television career.
The segment began with a discussion of the geopolitical implications of President Trump’s visit to the UK with Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haas claiming the U.S./UK relationship is slowly deteriorating:
And secondly, the so-called "special relationship," that's a slogan, it's a phrase, but it's not a reality anymore. This relationship is a lot less special. It began to become less special years ago, for lots of reasons given what's happened in the UK, what's happening here, and then it's accelerated under Donald Trump's presidency. So you'll hear all this stuff about "special relationship" and U.S./UK and it's the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We've come a long way since Churchill and Roosevelt, let me just say. May and Trump is not exactly 75 years on.
That is when McCaskill interjected with her peculiar “throne envy” comment followed by some stark whataboutism when it comes to presidential use of executive orders:
The one thing I know that will happen in this visit, he will have throne envy -- Donald Trump wants to be king. He has throne envy. He's going to come out of this meeting saying I just don't understand why I can't be king because he kind of acts as if he is. George referred to this unfettered executive power. I don't think the conservatives who were just pounding the podium about Barack Obama's use of executive orders, the height of hypocrisy with how this president has gone in unchartered territory. I mean from selling arms to Saudi to unilaterally saying, okay, more tariffs for everyone, more tariffs for Mexico, send the military to the border. He is totally given the back of his hand to Congress, and Congress is putting up with it.
An intellectually honest person would say that executive order power should be limited no matter who is in the Oval Office, but McCaskill is not, which makes her a perfect fit for MSNBC.
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