A man tried to assassinate the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend. That’s the THIRD attempt on President Trump’s life. Three. And two nights later, MSNBC aired a segment claiming Trump wants to build “concentration camps.”
Read the room, you absolute lunatics.
We need to be very clear about what happened here, because the timeline matters. On Saturday night, a gunman opened fire at the WHCD in yet another attempt to murder the sitting President of the United States. The Secret Service neutralized the threat. The country — at least the part of it that hasn’t completely lost its mind — exhaled.
Forty-eight hours later, MSNBC put a segment on national television telling millions of viewers that the president they just watched survive an assassination attempt wants to put people in concentration camps.
That’s not commentary. That’s incitement with a chyron.
And before anyone from the “well actually” brigade shows up — yes, words matter. We know this because the Left has spent the last decade telling us so. They’ve lectured us endlessly about “stochastic terrorism” and “dangerous rhetoric” and how words create “permission structures” for violence. They wrote think pieces about it. They taught college courses on it. They built entire media careers around the idea that language is violence.
Unless, apparently, the language is aimed at Donald Trump. Then it’s just Tuesday on MSNBC.
Three assassination attempts. Three. The first one literally took a chunk out of his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, and killed an audience member — a father shielding his family. The second one was the guy hiding in the bushes at his golf course. And now the WHCD shooting. Three separate individuals decided that the President of the United States needed to die, and each time they made that decision in a media environment where networks like MSNBC spend every single day comparing him to history’s greatest monsters.
But sure — let’s air a “concentration camps” segment 48 hours after the latest attempt. What could possibly go wrong?
(We’re being sarcastic. Obviously something could go wrong. Something keeps going wrong. That’s the entire point.)
The segment in question featured the usual parade of “analysts” and “experts” who exist primarily to say things so unhinged that normal cable news hosts can maintain plausible deniability. “I’m just asking questions!” Meanwhile the guest is comparing the American president to Adolf Hitler on a network that reaches millions of homes.
Here’s what MSNBC will never, ever acknowledge: the shooter who just tried to kill President Trump at the WHCD donated to Kamala Harris’s campaign. He was honored as “Teacher of the Month” at his school. He wasn’t some fringe character living in a bunker. He was a mainstream liberal who consumed mainstream liberal media — the same media that spends every day telling its audience that the president is a fascist dictator building concentration camps.
At what point do we connect the dots? Because the pattern is right there. Media calls Trump “Hitler.” Media says Trump will build “concentration camps.” Media says Trump is an “existential threat to democracy.” And then someone — for the third time — picks up a weapon and tries to end his life.
And MSNBC’s response to the third attempt is to immediately go back to calling him Hitler.
These people have the self-awareness of a brick. No — that’s unfair to bricks. At least bricks serve a constructive purpose.
Imagine if a conservative commentator had aired a segment demonizing a Democratic president two days after someone tried to assassinate that president. There would be congressional hearings. Advertisers would flee. The FCC would get letters. Media reporters from every outlet in the country would write solemn columns about “accountability” and “the role of media in a democracy.”
But it’s Trump, so the rules don’t apply. Three bullets — technically three separate rounds of bullets — and MSNBC hasn’t paused for even a moment of self-reflection. Not one executive at that network looked at the programming schedule and said, “Hey, maybe we should hold the concentration camp segment for a week. You know, since someone just tried to murder the guy.”
Nope. Full speed ahead. Gasoline, meet match.
The rest of us — the people who don’t want to see ANY president assassinated, regardless of party — are watching this in disbelief. We watched a man nearly die on Saturday, and by Monday night MSNBC was back to the exact same rhetoric that keeps putting targets on his back.
Three attempts. Zero self-awareness. And they wonder why nobody trusts the media anymore.