As Republicans use Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to argue that Democrats need to lower the temperature, ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan is calling out their selective outrage.
Hasan Questions GOP Demands
“Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??” Hasan asked Monday in an X post alongside a supercut showing the president’s “politics of vile insults” over the years.
The montage from Hasan’s Zeteo outlet shows clips of Trump taking aim at the “enemy from within,” pledging to “root out ... vermin” political foes from the country, and describing those on the left as “terrorists” as well as “liars, losers, creeps, perverts and freaks.”
Trump's Inflammatory Language
The video also shows Trump declaring that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America, calling Somalia the “worst country” in the world, and remarking that an assassin would have to “shoot through” the press to get to him at an event.
Elsewhere in the supercut, Trump bashes “crazy person” Kamala Harris, “garbage” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whom he called an “evil, sick, crazy B” in a November 2024 speech.
Trump's Contradictory Calls for Unity
Following Saturday’s shooting, Trump called on Americans to “recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully” at a press conference at the White House. But the call seemed to be short-lived as the president, in an interview with “60 Minutes” the next day, blamed Democrats for spewing “hate speech” in a way that he said is “very dangerous” for the country.
He also scolded CBS reporter Norah O’Donnell, saying she asked “totally inappropriate” questions and calling her a “disgrace” for asking him about a note purportedly sent by the shooting suspect.
First Lady's Accusations and Kimmel's Response
Hasan shared the supercut on the same day first lady Melania Trump accused late night host Jimmy Kimmel of spewing “hateful and violent rhetoric” in a joke he made on his show before the shooting. Kimmel, in a defiant message to the first lady during his Monday night monologue, agreed that people should reject such rhetoric before adding, “I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”
