Rachel Maddow Gives Trump A Blistering Reality Check After His 'Perfect' Presidency Claims

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow criticized President Donald Trump after he claimed "we've had two perfect months" to start out his presidency—conveniently downplaying "Signalgate" and ignoring all the scandals that have thus far struck his administration.

You can see his comments to reporters in the video below:

Maddow's remarks came amid revelations that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was invited into a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials, particularly Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussing military strategy surrounding war strikes in Yemen.

Maddow went on to highlight several administrative failures since Trump took office in January, including the January 29 plane crash outside Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people—just one day after Trump ordered air traffic controllers to take a buyout.

Though that only scratches the surface.

She said:

“President Trump has not fired anyone for this debacle, which is astonishing. He did confess to NBC News in a new interview that he sees this as a, quote, ‘glitch.’ A glitch. He said this scandal has been, quote, ‘the only glitch in two months.'" ...

"Between you and me, you’ve been alive for these past two months, and you’ve experienced what the first two months of this Trump term have been like. Do you think Trump is right, that it's all been totally perfect, the only glitch? ... A week after he was sworn in, a jet carrying 64 people hit an army helicopter. ... The day before that collision he had offered air traffic controllers all over the country a somewhat threatening buyout."

"He basically begged them to leave service. Less than a week later, he reversed course. ‘Oh, actually, no—maybe that’s a bad idea. Air traffic controllers, please don’t leave.’"

"That same week was when we started to get the headlines that Trump's top campaign donor Elon Musk had brought into his new agency to work with him to destroy the federal government. Turns out one DOGE staffer actually had to resign when it came out he had a since-deleted social media account in which he had advocated for loud and proud racism and racial human breeding tactics through eugenics."

Maddow noted that another DOGE employee at one point "worked for convicted hackers," and recalled the questionable hiring of a Justice Department staffer nicknamed “Big Balls,” who had been terminated from a cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets.

She also pointed to a string of other blunders, including Trump’s purge of key personnel at the nuclear security agency, the firing of CDC staff tasked with monitoring the bird flu outbreak, and the hollowing out of the National Park Service:

“So, they did that, and then—oops—turns out they realized they couldn’t do that. Turns out it would be wildly dangerous to radically understaff America’s national parks. Who knew?"

She then shifted to the cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs under the DOGE initiative, noting:

"[These cuts] included things like, oh, I don’t know, medical services for veterans, cancer programs, burial services for veterans who die. Boy, that really does sound wasteful, right?"

As March rolled in, she referenced a report from U.S. intelligence agencies revealing that Russia and China were attempting to recruit disgruntled former government employees as intelligence assets, concluding:

“Tired of all the winning yet?”

You can hear what she said in the video below.

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The Trump administration has made clear that Signalgate is not at the top of their list of concerns.

Attorney General Pam Bondi reiterated claims from other Trump administration officials that the information shared in the Signal chat was not classified.

When asked by reporters in Manassas, Virginia, about the Department of Justice’s involvement in the Signal chat controversy, Bondi avoided giving a direct answer, instead saying:

"It was sensitive info — not classified — and inadvertently released. What we should be talking about is that it was a very successful mission. Our world is now safer because of that mission. We’re not going to comment any further on that."

She then pivoted, shifting the focus to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Bidens.

"If you want to talk about classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s home," she remarked, referring to Clinton’s private email server, a subject Republicans had long criticized. Clinton, however, was never charged.