At the start of MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow’s weekly Monday program, the host took the moment of remembrance after the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy to connect World War II and D-Day veterans to protestors across the country who claim to be anti-fascist in their protests against the current Trump Administration. After she displayed images of some protests, Maddow went through a call-to-action of more protests against ICE detention centers and alleged supporters. The one-day-a-week host gave a pretty basic and quick explanation of D-Day in her remembrance, as she described US troops as those who “braved impossible odds” and “stormed the beaches at Normandy so they could liberate France and ultimately liberate all of Western Europe from the Nazis, turn the tide against the fascists in World War II. Then, of course, Maddow turned the anniversary into a political exercise as she introduced “how that anniversary looked this weekend” in some of America that had little to do with D-Day or a victory over Nazi Germany and instead dealt with domestic issues such as immigration. Of course, the insinuation was that the protests against fascism were about Trump and his administration in the current political realm.   On her weekly program, Rachel Maddow connected the anniversary of D-Day to some protests over the weekend that claimed Trump was a fascist, something similar to what is constantly said on the airwaves of MS NOW. She then turned to promote more protests, mainly against ICE. pic.twitter.com/GFRKY6MfAY — Nick (@nspin310) June 9, 2026   Maddow listed events such as ones in Alabama: “Decatur, Alabama: June 6th, D-Day vets fought fascism.” She continued to list seven events in total as part of her connection to the Allied invasion of Normandy: Here's how it looked in Dallas, Texas: Honor D-Day Vets, resist fascism.  Here's how it looked in Vancouver, Washington: Vets beat fascism, we can too.  Here's how it looked in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, this is a good one: D-Day heroes, the OG Antifa.  Similar idea in Lake Mary, Florida: World War II vets, first anti-fascists.  Raleigh, North Carolina: D-Day Heroes Fought Fascism.  Here's Los Angeles: Honor D-Day, fight fascism at home. Maddow then ended her run-through and stated, “literally hundreds of communities across the country doing things like that. This weekend for the anniversary of D-Day.” After she just compared the Trump administration to the fascists and Nazis, she had some calls for action with protests aganist Immigration policies and alleged partners, like Citizens Bank: Also, we just saw another set of targeted protests - a whole day of targeted protests against Citizens Bank for funding Trump's Immigration prisons. (...) All over the Northeast, people targeting Citizens Bank for their financial support of Trump's prison camps, trying to get Citizens Bank to drop that support.  She then called for her viewers to attend a protest in Maryland against a potential new detention center: Tomorrow, we're expecting another big protest in Hagerstown, Maryland, against a possible Trump prison camp they've been trying to put in just outside Hagerstown in a big warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland. Another big protest scheduled around that tomorrow morning, 9 AM, Hagerstown, Maryland. Beyond her decision to make any mention of D-Day about Trump, her call-to-action exemplified a larger point of Maddow and other personalities personally driving the existence of older protestors, like the ones she displayed, who have a high chance of being MS NOW viewers, who also have been constantly told on the airwaves that Republicans are fascists. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show June 9, 2026 9:04:39 PM Eastern (...) RACHEL MADDOW: This weekend was the anniversary of D-Day, when U.S. Troops braved impossible odds to launch the largest seaborne invasion in history. They stormed the beaches at Normandy so they could liberate France and ultimately liberate all of Western Europe from the Nazis, turning the tide against the fascists in World War Two. Here's how that anniversary looked this weekend in Decatur, Alabama: June 6th, D-Day vets fought fascism.  Here's how it looked in Dallas, Texas: Honor D-Day Vets, resist fascism.  Here's how it looked in Vancouver, Washington: Vets beat fascists, we can too.  Here's how it looked in Hampton falls, New Hampshire, this is a good one: D-day heroes, the OG Antifa.  Similar idea in Lake Mary, Florida: World War II vets, first anti-fascists.  Raleigh, North Carolina: D-Day heroes fought fascism.  Here's Los Angeles: Honor D-Day, fight fascism at home. Literally hundreds of communities across the country doing things like that. This weekend for the anniversary of D-Day.  Also, we just saw another set of targeted protests - a whole day of targeted protests against Citizens Bank for funding Trump's Immigration prisons. Citizens Bank, for its part, they say they follow the law and they apply their standards consistently to all their clients. But that bank, Citizens Bank, is based in Rhode Island. They have branches all over the northeast. And all over the northeast this weekend we saw protests in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts. All over the Northeast, people targeting Citizens Bank for their financial support of Trump's prison camps, trying to get Citizens Bank to drop that support.  In Los Angeles, people protested this weekend to mark one year since Trump's federal agents started attacking that city, and particularly attacking immigrants in that city. In Charlotte, North Carolina, and Bluffton, South Carolina. This weekend, we saw protests against ICE and against ICE prison camps.  Tomorrow, we're expecting another big protest in Hagerstown, Maryland, against a possible Trump prison camp they've been trying to put in just outside Hagerstown in a big warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland. Another big protest scheduled around that tomorrow morning, 9 AM, Hagerstown, Maryland. (...)