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MaddowBlog-Following correspondents' dinner shooting, Trump takes steps to stifle dissent (again)
When Trump wasn’t talking about his ballroom, he was denouncing those who dare to criticize or disagree with him.
After Saturday night’s shooting, how long did it take for Trump to begin trying to stifle dissent?
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-04-27T12:05:32.155Z
Less than a day.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/following-correspondents-dinner-shooting-trump-takes-steps-to-stifle-dissent-again
The day after the shooting, Trump sat down with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell for an interview that aired on Sunday night’s “60 Minutes.” He continued down the same path — “I’m building a safe ballroom,” he boasted — before the conversation shifted to another one of the Republican’s domestic priorities.
.....As part of the same exchange, the president quickly made the transition from condemning No Kings protests to condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization Trump’s Justice Department began prosecuting last week, which the president seized on as part of a weird attempt to justify nullifying the results of his 2020 election defeat.
It led to this harangue that Trump delivered during the “60 Minutes” interview:
The meandering train of thought was impossible to follow, largely because it was incoherent. As part of an interview about a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump managed to leap from the gunman, to the No Kings rallies, to the Southern Poverty Law Center, to unnamed Democrats, to Charlottesville, to the “rigged election” that wasn’t rigged......
Before the anchor could finish the thought, Trump jumped in to argue, “I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats much more so is very dangerous. I really think it’s very dangerous for the country.”
The Republican best known for accusing his opponents of being “evil” and members of “the party of Satan” went on to whine about Joe Biden and push a conspiracy theory about his Democratic predecessor.
Not quite 24 hours after the dangerous incident, in other words, when Trump wasn’t talking about his ballroom, he focused his attention on denouncing those who dare to criticize or disagree with him, as if they somehow bore responsibility for the developments.
Trump: "The reason you have people like that is you have people doing 'no kings.' I'm not a king. If I was a king I wouldn't be dealing with you."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-26T23:22:09.694Z
.....As part of the same exchange, the president quickly made the transition from condemning No Kings protests to condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization Trump’s Justice Department began prosecuting last week, which the president seized on as part of a weird attempt to justify nullifying the results of his 2020 election defeat.
It led to this harangue that Trump delivered during the “60 Minutes” interview:
I see these No Kings, which are funded just like the Southern Law, you saw all that? Southern Law is financing the KKK and lots of other radical, terrible groups. And then they go out and they say, ‘Oh, we’ve gotta stop the KKK.’ And yet they give, you know, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. It’s a total scam run by the Democrats. It shows you that, like Charlottesville. Charlottesville was all funded by the Southern Law. That was a Southern Law deal too. And it was done to make me look bad, and it turned out to be a total fake. It basically was a rigged election. This was a part of the rigging of the election.
The meandering train of thought was impossible to follow, largely because it was incoherent. As part of an interview about a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump managed to leap from the gunman, to the No Kings rallies, to the Southern Poverty Law Center, to unnamed Democrats, to Charlottesville, to the “rigged election” that wasn’t rigged......
Before the anchor could finish the thought, Trump jumped in to argue, “I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats much more so is very dangerous. I really think it’s very dangerous for the country.”
The Republican best known for accusing his opponents of being “evil” and members of “the party of Satan” went on to whine about Joe Biden and push a conspiracy theory about his Democratic predecessor.
Not quite 24 hours after the dangerous incident, in other words, when Trump wasn’t talking about his ballroom, he focused his attention on denouncing those who dare to criticize or disagree with him, as if they somehow bore responsibility for the developments.