POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)

NOMINEES: 

1. Jim Acosta Bashes Trump’s “Kim Jong-Un Birthday Parade” 

“The President of the United States is a danger to this country. Full stop….Even people in the Republican party were afraid to show up at his birthday parade, the dictator Kim Jong-Un birthday parade that he tried to have….One of the images I took away from the weekend that really stayed with me were those military veterans....who had fought in World War II and said, ‘we defeated fascism the last time. I’m here to do it this time.’”
— Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta at Center for American Progress, June 17.

2. Whoopi Goldberg: It’s Worse to Be Black in America Than Live in Iran

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin: “I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is in Iran.”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “Not if you’re black!”
— ABC’s The View, June 18. 

3. Eugene Robinson: “No Mandate” For Trump’s “Proto-Fascism”

“You had 5 million people in demonstrations around the country against what President Trump is doing. What it brought to mind to me was a number that….Joe Scarborough mentioned earlier, 1.5 percent. That was the margin between the 77 million votes that Donald Trump got and the 75 million that Kamala Harris got. And it’s not this overwhelming mandate for proto-fascism.”
— MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, June 17. 

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