On Thursday, June 18, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will have its official dedication ceremony. Coverage of the live event will - no doubt - give the Elitist Media (who openly rooted for Obama’s election and championed him through his two terms) a brand new opportunity to throw bouquets his way again.  From ABC’s Terry Moran practically urging then-Senator Barack Obama in 2006 to run for President: “You can see it in the [Iowa] crowds. The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him…Is he the one?” to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell issuing him a fond farewell in 2016: “President Obama is the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House,” the following are just some of the most ridiculous “Obamagasms” (via the MRC archives): First up is a brief montage by NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino.   pic.twitter.com/jicC1eFJRy — Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) June 17, 2026   “Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow — a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy....He transcends the racial divide so effortlessly that it seems reasonable to expect that he can bridge all the other divisions — and answer all the impossible questions — plaguing American public life.”— Time’s Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, “Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President.” “Many people, afterwards [after Obama’s 2004 convention speech], they weren’t sure how to pronounce your name but they were moved by you. People were crying. You tapped into something. You touched people....If your party says to you, ‘We need you,’ and, and there’s already a drumbeat out there, will you respond?”— Co-host Meredith Vieira to Obama on NBC’s Today, October 19, 2006. “You can see it in the crowds. The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him. You’re looking at an American political phenomenon....He inspires the party faithful and many others, like no one else on the scene today....And the question you can sense on everyone’s mind, as they listen so intently to him, is he the one? Is Barack Obama the man, the black man, who could lead the Democrats back to the White House and maybe even unite the country?...Everywhere he goes, people want him to run for President, especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him.”— Co-anchor Terry Moran on ABC’s Nightline, November 6, 2006. Co-anchor Chris Matthews: “I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My — I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”Co-anchor Keith Olbermann: “Steady.”Matthews: “No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.”— Exchange during MSNBC’s coverage of the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. primaries, February 12, 2008. “On the bus ride along the snowy road to Lebanon, New Hampshire, I showed him this week’s Newsweek, hot off the presses. [to Obama] How does this feel, of all the honors that have come your way, all the publicity?...Who does it make you think of? Is there, is there a loved one?”— NBC’s Brian Williams on the January 7, 2008 Nightly News. Anchor Brian Williams: “Last time we were together, I handed you a copy of Newsweek. It was the first time you’d held it in your hands with you on the cover. Have you yet held this [Time magazine cover declaring Obama the winner of the primaries] in your hands?”Senator Barack Obama: “No, I don’t want to. Because the last time it was in New Hampshire and I ended up losing. So...I’m not taking any chances.”Williams: “Last time, you looked at it and you thought instantly of your mom.”Obama: “She’d like that picture. She always encouraged me to smile more.”— NBC Nightly News, May 8, 2008. “Here in Berlin today, not far from where the wall once stood, the man from Chicago, Illinois, the first ever African-American running as presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, brought throngs of people into the center of Berlin, streaming into this city, surging to get close to him, to hear his message....I heard one American reporter tonight say it's hard to come up with a list of others who could draw such a crowd, but then again it's hard to know what we witnessed here today.”— Anchor Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, July 24, 2008. “When an American politician comes to Berlin, we’ve had some iconic utterances in the past. We’ve had ‘Ich bin ein.’ We’ve had, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall’....Is the phraseology that you would like remembered: ‘People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time’?”— Anchor Brian Williams interviewing Obama on the July 24, 2008 NBC Nightly News.  “Presidential campaigns have destroyed many bright and capable politicians. But there’s ample evidence that Obama is something special, a man who makes difficult tasks look easy, who seems to touch millions of diverse people with a message of hope that somehow doesn’t sound Pollyannaish.”— AP writer Charles Babington in a May 10, 2008 dispatch. “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope....Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.”— Time’s Nancy Gibbs in the November 17, 2008 post-election cover story. “Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.”— Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow in a December 25, 2008 front-page story about Obama’s vacation fitness regimen. “By now we are all accustomed to that Obi-Wan Kenobi calm....[But] what now seems most salient about Obama is the opposite of flashy, the antithesis of rhetoric: he gets things done. He is a man about his business — a Mr. Fix It going to Washington....Spare us the dead-or-alive bravado, the gates-of-hell bluster, the melodrama of the 3 a.m. phone call. A door swung open for a candidate who would merely stand and deliver....In the land of the hapless, the competent man is king.”— Editor-at-large David von Drehle in his cover story announcing Obama as Time’s “Man of the Year,” December 29, 2008 issue. “For a public event, it was absolutely stunning. People with tears in their eyes, Dave, people lining up, and this is something I just can't wrap my arms around, to buy merchandise with any depiction - this is a guy we just elected President. It’s not a rock star or an athlete or an actor. This is our President. To see people, whatever your politics, that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years, generations, it is unbelievable to me.”— NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on CBS’s Late Show, January 26, 2009. “I like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first President since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I mean, from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way.”— ABC News correspondent Terry Moran to Media Bistro’s Steve Krakauer in a February 20, 2009 “Morning Media Menu” audio podcast.   FLASHBACK: “As we wrap up the week we wanted to take note of these images we’ve been looking at, particularly this one where other heads of state are seemingly trying to get close to the head of the class, or the cool kid in the class, if you will, President Obama.” — Anchor… pic.twitter.com/qY0Ol8T8Ul — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 17, 2026   “As we wrap up the week we wanted to take note of these images we’ve been looking at, particularly this one where other heads of state are seemingly trying to get close to the head of the class, or the cool kid in the class, if you will, President Obama.”— Anchor David Muir on President Barack Obama’s first trip to Europe on ABC World News, April 4, 2009. “The legislative achievements have been stupendous — the $789 billion stimulus bill, the budget plan that is still being hammered out (and may, ultimately, include the next landmark safety-net program, universal health insurance). There has also been a cascade of new policies to address the financial crisis — massive interventions in the housing and credit markets, a market-based plan to buy the toxic assets that many banks have on their books, a plan to bail out the auto industry and a strict new regulatory regime proposed for Wall Street. “Obama has also completely overhauled foreign policy, from Cuba to Afghanistan. ‘In a way, Obama’s 100 days is even more dramatic than Roosevelt’s,’ says Elaine Kamarck of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. ‘Roosevelt only had to deal with a domestic crisis. Obama has had to overhaul foreign policy as well, including two wars. And that’s really the secret of why this has seemed so spectacular.’”— Time’s Joe Klein in the magazine’s May 4, 2009 cover story on Barack Obama’s first 100 days as President.   FLASHBACK: Brian Williams: “About this president. The very idea of this man, this product of Kenya and Kansas by way of Hawaii and Asia, as our 44th president is still so very new. And he is so different from all the men who’ve gone before him. People react strongly to this… pic.twitter.com/DAvgZGkAXG — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 17, 2026   Brian Williams: “About this president. The very idea of this man, this product of Kenya and Kansas by way of Hawaii and Asia, as our 44th president is still so very new. And he is so different from all the men who’ve gone before him. People react strongly to this president. We’ve seen people moved to tears after just the briefest encounter with him...Now it is First Family time and time for us to say goodnight. Mr. President that’s your elevator. Thank you sir, have a good evening.” (Bows)Barack Obama:  “Appreciate it very much. Thank you very much Brian.”— NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams during a two-hour special which aired over several nights during the first week of June 2009. “People who brief him say he is able to game out scenarios before the experts in the room, even on foreign policy, national security and other issues in which he had relatively little expertise before running for president. Obama is approaching the issues as a game of ‘three-dimensional chess,’ said John O. Brennan, an assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism. ‘It’s not kinetic checkers....There are moves that are made on the chess board that really have implications, so the President is always looking at those dimensions of it.’”— Carrie Johnson and Anne E. Kornblut in a front-page Washington Post story, August 28, 2009. “It is impossible to write about Nelson Mandela these days and not compare him to another potentially transformational black leader, Barack Obama. The parallels are many....And while it took twenty-seven years in prison to mold the Nelson Mandela we know, the forty-eight-year-old American president seems to have achieved a Mandela-like temperament without the long years of sacrifice....Whatever Mandela may or may not think of the new American President, Obama is in many ways his true successor on the world stage.”— From Time managing editor Richard Stengel’s introduction to his new self-help book, Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage, quoted by Politico’s Mike Allen in a March 30, 2010 Web posting. “Finally, I’m hoping to find you in a reflective mood on a cloudy day. We’re the first to speak to you coming off your summer vacation. How does it re-charge you? What do you think about? What do you see? What do you read about? How are you thinking about your job these days?”— NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams to President Obama, in an August 29, 2010 interview, complete video of which was posted on MSNBC.com. “People from all over the world, frankly, say to me, here comes a President with a huge mandate, a huge reservoir of goodwill, huge promises to change, and, with all of that, his popularity is down. People don’t appreciate some of the amazing legislative agenda that he’s accomplished.”— Host Christiane Amanpour to Obama advisor David Axelrod on ABC’s This Week, September 26, 2010. “Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph....Barack Obama is developing into what Hegel called a ‘world-historical soul,’ an embodiment of the spirit of the times. He is what we hope we can be.”— Esquire’s Stephen Marche in a column for the magazine’s August 2011 issue: “How Can We Not Love Obama? Because Like It or Not, He Is All of Us.” “When you watch the President like that, I always feel he’s got so many pluses, doesn’t he? In a sense, he’s personable, he’s handsome, he can be funny. You know, abroad he has this great image for America. A lot of things are just perfect about Barack Obama.”— Host Piers Morgan to Obama strategist David Axelrod on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, December 5, 2011. “This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. He’s fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, in a blind test becomes head of the Review, the top editor there. Everything he’s done is clean as a whistle. He’s never not only broken any law, he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American. And all they do is trash the guy.”— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about President Obama on Hardball, July 17, 2012. The New Yorker’s David Remnick: “The fact that this country didn’t fall into a depression, an economic depression, which it could easily have done; the fact that we are out of Iraq, for all the problems in Iraq, getting there in Afghanistan; the auto industry saved; gay rights more and more ensured, not without help from the President of the United States; the fact that there’s been no scandal, major scandal, in this administration, which is a rare thing in an administration; the fact that science is now discussed as science; the fact that climate change, however woefully inadequate the measures for it, is now-”Host Charlie Rose: “Does this measure up to greatness for you?”Remnick: “Well, let’s wait ‘til the end....[But] I think those achievements are huge.”— PBS’s Charlie Rose, January 20, 2014, talking about Remnick’s cover story on Obama’s presidency. “We don’t know if the Iran deal is going to work. If it does, it will be the major foreign policy achievement, not only of this presidency, but of this American generation. At which point, people in the not-too-distant future will look back at this presidency, they’ll look back at this President and they’ll say, ‘Oh, of course they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course they did.’”— Host Rachel Maddow on her eponymous MSNBC show, July 14, 2015. “Americans are lucky to have Barack Obama as President and we should wake up and appreciate it while we can. President Obama will go down in history as an extraordinary President, probably a great one....Many  Presidents fared better in history than in office. But it would be a morale booster and a sign of civic maturity if more Americans appreciated what an exceptional President they have right now. It could be a long wait for the next one.”— Washington Bureau Chief for Scripps News and former CBS News producer Dick Meyer, in a July 16, 2015 Decode DC op-ed titled: “Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you.” PBS’s Charlie Rose: “I want to raise two big issues about him that are fascinating to me and, Jon, all of you. How smart is he? What’s the sense of — is he one of our brightest presidents?”Longtime Newsweek editor Jon Meacham: “I think so, absolutely. I think so, and I think it has all of the pluses and minuses of that.Rose: “I’m asking from a real standpoint.”Meacham: “It’s a keen analytical intelligence.”— Exchange on PBS’s Charlie Rose show, January 12, 2016. “Wait. One of the Greatest?...Like 20-Dollar Bill great? Like Mount Rushmore great? Yep. (We just won’t build Mount Rushmores anymore.) In so many ways, Obama was better than we imagined, better than the body politic deserved, and far, far better than his enemies will ever concede.... We’ll look back at history, hopefully when we’re zooming down the Barack Obama Hyperloop Transport System, and think: That man was rare. And we were damn lucky to have him.”— GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson in an April 14, 2016 online article “Why Obama Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents of All Time: Already missing our soon-to-be-former POTUS.” “Really, has there been any President cooler than Obama?”— May 10, 2016 tweet from Newsweek’s official Twitter account, plugging an online piece on whether Barack Obama is “the first pop culture President.” “[Barack Obama] invoked the audacity of hope, all of the spirit, all of the creativity of his own brilliant speech writing....I don’t think we’ve ever had a President, save Lincoln, who is as great a speechwriter as this man.”— Correspondent Andrea Mitchell following Barack Obama’s speech as aired on MSNBC’s live Democratic convention coverage, July 27, 2016. “It’s hard, frankly, to stop quoting from his [Barack Obama’s] remarks because they amounted to one of the most moving, inspiring valentines to this country that I’ve ever heard, brimming with regard for it and gratitude to it. We’re going to miss this man, America. Whatever his flaws, he’s been more than our President. Time and again, he’s been our national poet.”— New York Times columnist Frank Bruni in July 28, 2016 piece, “Freedom from Fear.” “President Obama is the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House.”— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word, November 9, 2016.

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a busy day of activism on Tuesday. First, host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper reacted to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gifting President Trump a German soccer jersey by implying that Trump wished it was a Nazi one. Later, Desi Lydic interviewed four former federal employees who were DOGE-ed who are now running for Congress as Democrats and gushed about how they are “political unicorns” dedicated to service. With Trump in France for the G7 Summit, Klepper declared, “Now, Trump's goal at the summit is to work with our allies and strengthen America's standing in the world. I am [bleep] with you. No! He's there for the presents!”   The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper is relieved the German chancellor's soccer jersey gift to Trump wasn't a Nazi jersey, "Although if the Germans insist on giving Trump one of their uniforms, this probably is the best case scenario. Just thinking it through. He is into those… pic.twitter.com/Rrygnczp1h — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 17, 2026   That led to a clip of footage of Merz giving Trump a jersey with a reporter explaining, “The German chancellor offering President Trump a customized German football jersey.” Klepper reacted by retorting, “You can tell he really loves it, ya know! 'Wow, a size medium shirt, yeah, thanks. You know Qatar got me a plane, right?' Although if the Germans insist on giving Trump one of their uniforms, this probably is the best-case scenario. Just thinking it through. He is into those heritage editions.” When Klepper says German “heritage editions,” he isn’t talking about the House of Hohenzollern. Later, Klepper’s anti-Trump activism gave way to Lydic’s pro-Democrat activism when she interviewed Alexis Goldstein, Alissa Ellman, Michael Duffin, and Tracy Starr about their new career ambitions. While Lydic utilized heavy amounts of sarcasm throughout the segment, it was obvious the point was to portray the quartet as the epitome of public service. Towards the end she declared, “These people who were fired for waste, fraud, and abuse are about to voluntarily enter a world of waste, fraud, and abuse, and it was obvious from their half-baked revenge plots that they were going to need my help.” Talking with Ellman, she questioned, “You're about to go up against some seriously corrupt politicians. I need to test you to see if you are ready. Tell me your party platform in 15 seconds.”     Ellman replied with, “Anticorruption, government reform, working mom,” but the sarcastic Lydic replied, “Wrong. You didn't ask me for a donation once. Not once.” Now speaking to with Goldstein, she wondered, “Ted Cruz is next to you in the lunch line. You can smell his breath on the back of your neck. He has asked if he can sit next to you. What do you do?” After Goldstein said, “Run away?” Lydic answered, “Okay. You got that one right.” Summing it all up, she added, “This is something I never thought I would see, like Bigfoot or a hit TV show about gay hockey players, but these candidates seem to want to help. They were political unicorns. I'm getting this feeling that I don't know what to do with. I haven't felt it in a long time. It's like the cynicism is kind of washing away a little bit, and I am slightly less rageful.” Starr claimed they were offering “hope,” but Lydic quipped, “No, I think it's perimenopause.” What The Daily Show was offering was free Democratic campaign messaging because seeing that Democrats win is the show’s first goal. Here is a transcript for the June 16 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 6/16/2026 11:01 PM ET JORDAN KLEPPER: Now, Trump's goal at the summit is to work with our allies and strengthen America's standing in the world. I am [bleep] with you. No! He's there for the presents! REPORTER: The German chancellor offering President Trump a customized German football jersey. KLEPPER: You can tell he really loves it, ya know! "Wow, a size medium shirt, yeah, thanks. You know Qatar got me a plane, right?" Although if the Germans insist on giving Trump one of their uniforms, this probably is the best-case scenario. Just thinking it through. He is into those heritage editions. … DESI LYDIC: These people who were fired for waste, fraud, and abuse are about to voluntarily enter a world of waste, fraud, and abuse, and it was obvious from their half-baked revenge plots that they were going to need my help. You're about to go up against some seriously corrupt politicians. I need to test you to see if you are ready. Tell me your party platform in 15 seconds. ALISSA ELLMAN: Anticorruption, government reform, working mom. LYDIC: Wrong. You didn't ask me for a donation once. Not once. Ted Cruz is next to you in the lunch line. You can smell his breath on the back of your neck. He has asked if he can sit next to you. What do you do? ALEXIS GOLDSTEIN: Run away? LYDIC: Okay. You got that one right. This is something I never thought I would see, like Bigfoot or a hit TV show about gay hockey players, but these candidates seem to want to help. They were political unicorns. I'm getting this feeling that I don't know what to do with. I haven't felt it in a long time. It's like the cynicism is kind of washing away a little bit, and I am slightly less rageful. TRACY STARR: Hope. LYDIC: No, I think it's perimenopause.

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories:   MRC Exposes Network Morning Shows for Boosting Newsom and Spinning Federal Investigation as Trump Retribution MRC Details Radical Cast of The View Unraveling Over JD Vance Visit MRC Catches Jon Stewart Blaming Conservative Media for Reporting Real Post-Game Violence   MRC Exposes Network Morning Shows for Boosting Newsom and Spinning Federal Investigation as Trump Retribution ABC, CBS, and NBC all rushed to broadcast stories echoing Gavin Newsom's claim that a federal investigation into his family finances is a political hit job.  The MRC captured ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly reading DNC talking points by characterizing the Department of Justice probe as a retribution campaign.  CBS Mornings went so far as to frame the federal investigation into Newsom's finances as a potential advantage for his future presidential aspirations.  Network journalists gaslighted viewers by withholding key facts uncovered by researchers, such as Newsom's former chief of staff recently pleading guilty to bank and wire fraud.   MRC Details Radical Cast of The View Unraveling Over JD Vance Visit Vice President JD Vance entered the hostile environment of ABC's daytime talk show and successfully dismantled a barrage of partisan attacks.  Co-host Ana Navarro launched unverified conspiracy theories alleging ICE was torturing children, prompting Vance to forcefully push back against the media lies.  The host segment devolved into chaotic infighting when Whoopi Goldberg had to vigorously clap her hands and yell at her fellow co-hosts to go to a commercial break.  MRC tracking shows that the show maintains an extreme double standard by hosting over one hundred liberal guests compared to just two conservative guests.   MRC Catches Jon Stewart Blaming Conservative Media for Reporting Real Post-Game Violence Jon Stewart flipped the double middle finger at Fox News and Newsmax for reporting on the actual chaos and destruction that occurred in New York after the NBA Finals.  The Comedy Central host attempted to dismiss the real-world post-game violence by falsely claiming the media coverage was a way to target a joyful and diverse celebration.  Stewart completely ignored the destruction of a school bus and local property, instead trying to deflect blame toward January 6 and right-wing hypocrisy.  The late-night program brought on Senator Raphael Warnock to promote his book and smear conservative politicians on their religious faith without any pushback from the host.  

Schwarzenegger-Mamdani 2028! Don't laugh! After all, on today's Morning Joe, an oh-so-inclusive Arnold declared: "To me, it makes no difference if you're a Communist." That Constitutional thingy about presidents having to be native-born Americans? Stuff for small minds. The Austrian-born Arnold and the Ugandan native Mamdani are a match made in . . .  Scarborough and Brzezinski had Schwarzenegger on the show to talk about the so-called "Austrian World Summit" that he is hosting. The goal is to battle climate change, or, as Schwarzenegger suggested, the real focus should be pollution, since it kills seven million yearly vs. only 25,000 by climate change. "I use my movie lines, 'Hasta La Vista, Pollution,'" said Arnold. A top guest at the "summit" is Kamala Harris, who was seen offering the brilliant insight, based on her experience as California's Attorney General, that there have to be "consequences" for law-breaking. Who knew?  There was no pushback to Schwarzenegger from Joe or Mika. To the contrary, Scarborough unctuously called his spiel, "such an important message." Then came the signature pivot. Joe teed up Arnold to criticize Trump and Republicans at large about threats to democracy, referencing election skepticism in California and investigations of the Newsoms.  'Inclusive' Arnold: 'Makes No Difference If You're a Communist!' pic.twitter.com/haU5SbDs28 — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 16, 2026 Schwarzenegger dodged with a rambling ode to "inclusion." "The most important thing is that we are inclusive . . . Going in the direction of kind of like inclusion has always been something that I was taught by people here in Austria, and then when I came to America, I saw inclusion really in the highest level . . . I want everyone [to] be included . . . When we work on inclusion, I think that we will go and protect our democracy much more." Arnold even managed to work in a humblebrag that, learning from his experience as an immigrant, he donates 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys every year in East LA "to feed the people that have less money." Mika played off that to end the segment with a closing shot at Trump world:  "Very different things happening with immigrants today, here in America, that is for sure." The guy who ran and won as Governor of California as the rough, tough, Terminator has fully morphed into a Hollywood open-borders, climate alarmist pussycat. As for MS NOW, it was just another day of liberal-celebrity lectures — zero pushback, maximum virtue signaling. Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 6/16/26 6:23 am EDT KAMALA HARRIS: On the issue of what we will do to, to terminate pollution, and to save our planet, the policy must include, and, and my experience as attorney general reinforced that for me, the policies must include accountability and consequences for bad behaviors. JOE SCARBOROUGH: That was former Vice President Kamala Harris this morning, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Austrian World Summit taking place right now in Vienna. The summit is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, with climate leaders from several countries taking the stage to discuss and offer solutions now to fight climate change by bringing together governments, businesses, and individuals. And this year's theme is, 'We Are Unstoppable.'  And Arnold Schwarzenegger joins us now from Vienna. He is, of course, the host of the summit. Governor, thank you so much for being with us. We greatly appreciate it. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, thank you very much for having me, and, you know, I just want to, right off the top, correct you, because you said it's climate change. I want you to talk about fighting pollution. Because we have to terminate pollution, and that's what I always say, I use my movie lines, "Hasta La Vista, Pollution."  So this is the kind of things we have to talk about. Climate change, most people don't understand it, and they don't care about any of that stuff. I think they care about pollution, because pollution is the thing that actually kills seven million people a year. You know, climate change, you know, and with all the, the, the bad weather and the storms and the floods and all of this stuff, that kills maybe twenty-five thousand people, which is of course twenty-five thousand people too many, but pollution kills seven million. So this is why I always stress pollution rather than climate change. SCARBOROUGH: And what are some of the ideas right now that you're hearing this year, that you're getting excited about in some ways to fight pollution?" SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, you know, the theme of the conference is, that we are unstoppable. And the reason why it is, is because, as you know, in, America, we have an administration that doesn't really believe in pollution being a threat to our health and, that it kills all of these people.  So we want to encourage people here to just say, stop whining about the White House and about them not believing in that. I said, what is it that we can do?, I said. Because it doesn't really matter in the end who is in the White House. What really matters is what we're doing on the state and local level.  I said, we have to rely on ourselves. That's where the action is. And so when you think about, you know, what California has accomplished and what Texas is accomplishing right now, and what Massachusetts is accomplishing and Minnesota and all of those states, it's really remarkable because they just say, Okay we're gonna go and take the bull by the horn create the changes, and we're gonna set goals of updating our renewable energy, lowering our greenhouse gases, and all those kind of things. Let's not wait for the federal government to take the lead, let us take the lead.  So what we are doing is with this conference here is, really encouraging people to go and to just continue working themselves and thinking about what can I do versus what can they do. SCARBOROUGH: That's such an important message. I, I wanted to ask you, you've, you've said some very inspiring things about American democracy. And I always found that immigrants, have, have a better perspective sometimes than those of us who were born in America and were raised here, cause we just assume that democracy's always gonna be with us. We always assume that everything will always be the way it is.  You've given some very moving warnings in the past about your own family members that have been swept, that were swept up during—World War II, in, in Nazism, and, and, and you've warned Americans against this.  I'm wondering as you look at what's happening with Gavin Newsom and his wife, if you, as you look at what's happening where people are trying to say that California's elections are being rigged. You're the last Republican governor elected in California, and it took 30 days, that's the law.  How are we doing as a democracy right now? What are your concerns as somebody who has a perspective that maybe those of us who were born here don't have? SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, you know, it doesn't really matter where you live. The most important thing is that we are inclusive, and that we don't hate anybody because they feel differently than we do, or they belong to a different religion than we do, or they're belonging to a different party than we do. And this is the theme also of our conference here.  I tell, to me, it makes no difference if you're a communist, if you're a socialist, if you're Democrat or Republican, or if you come from a dictatorship, it makes no difference.  It's, come here to Vienna, and let's work together to solve this problem and to create a good environment. I think that if we work together, we are much more powerful rather than fighting each other and always alienating half of the people.  So to me, I think going in the direction of kind of like inclusion has always been something that I was taught by people here in Austria, and then when I came to America, I saw inclusion really in the highest level. You know, where people were kind of like really helpful to me as an immigrant that just arrived in America, they gave me pillowcases and pillows and, blankets and dishes and silverware and the black and white TV and all of this kind of things. I was shocked when I came to America and I got this much help. And I learned how to be generous, and, I do exactly the same thing now. I want to make sure that when it is Thanksgiving, that I go to East LA, and to feed the—people that have less money, and then I donate a thousand turkeys to them on Thanksgiving. I do exactly the things that was done to me when I came to America, and I want to continue the tradition, you know.  And since, and all the other stuff. I'm just in the, if it's bodybuilding, if it's fitness, I deal with the world, so I never ask when I promote bodybuilding or when I promote fitness, are you a Democrat? Are you an Arab? Are you, Israeli? Are you Australian? Are you from Africa? I don't care. I don't care.  I want everyone to be fit, I want everyone to enjoy the motivation when I say, 'Go and train and do something every day.' It doesn't matter what party you're coming from, if you believe in the things that I believe in, I want every, everyone be included. And so this is, I think, when we work on inclusion, I think that we will go and protect our democracy much more. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Very different things happening with immigrants today, here in America, that is for sure. 

Anyone could have predicted that the elitist snobs would lose their minds over the White House hosting a UFC event on President Trump’s birthday, led by Lawrence O’Donnell wailing about the “despicable vulgarity” of the whole thing. But the Hollywood Left attempted despicably vulgar counter-programming in Manhattan, a “star-studded event” titled “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.” It was hosted by Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment." That’s right – the woman who pretended to shoot at American airplanes with Vietnamese communists is now lecturing us on our freedoms. “Right now, the government and its cronies [are] routinely violating its First Amendment to silence artists,” Fonda claimed onstage. “Shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center, defunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, and banning books, canceling TV hosts who speak out. It’s really bad.” No one “fact checks” celebrities when they lecture like Blutarsky in National Lampoon’s Animal House about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. The NEA hasn’t been “defunded,” but there have been grant cancellations. The Kennedy Center hasn’t been “shuttered,” but it’s closed for repairs. The government didn’t “cancel TV hosts” like Stephen Colbert. But they pretend that’s what happened when President Trump cheered it on.   But the most fraudulent argument here is that Fonda & Co. did anything for free speech as Team Biden geared up to censor and spike all the “disinformation” coming from conservatives. Fonda only started her “committee” up again to perform against Trump. They are the cynics that think free speech is only for them, and we have “democracy” only when the Democrats win. Like clockwork, Robert De Niro came out for the latest in his “tuck Frump” lectures. He claimed “I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.” “I can’t love the country that’s led by Donald Trump.” More hateful rhetoric from Robert De Niro at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment: “I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors and separate… pic.twitter.com/UURrG5duPh — Brent Baker