Ex-MSNBC Host Praises Trump's Political Instincts, Ability To Connect To Country Culturally
Ex-MSNBC host Chris Matthews praised President
Donald Trump during a conversation with Charlie Rose on Saturday, suggesting the president had a strong cultural connection to the country.
"He’s very good at knowing your condition, your worries, your insecurities. I mean, he’d be a great bully in a grade school, a Catholic high school or grade school. I mean, he’d be the scariest bully because he’d know everybody’s weakness. But he’s really good at the moment. I mean, he’s out there watching television and keeping up, and, ‘Is this the right thing to do, what we’re doing right now?’"
Mattews told Rose. "Biden couldn’t do that in a million years, not a million years. Mondale couldn’t do that. They don’t have the connection to the electricity of what’s going on in the country culturally. And he knows what works."
Rose began the discussion by asking Matthews how he would rate the president as a politician.

"We have never had a president so instantly spontaneous that he knows this minute, if he had said at four o’clock this afternoon, he would say, ‘You know, that’s not really true anymore.’ He will know the mood of the country. I once had a talk with him about the ‘Zoolander’ movie, Ben Stiller movie, and he said, ‘Zoolander 1,’ good timing. ‘Zoolander 2,’ didn’t work. He’s instantaneous," Matthews said.
Matthews also argued that Trump was a strong public figure.
"His strength is still greater than the Democratic strength," he told Rose. "He is a stronger public figure than the Democratic people. I mean,
Obama still has tremendous charisma, but Trump has strength. And I think that’s what all voters look for. They want a president who is a strong figure. And he’s got it. It’s just there. And half the country buys it."
Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews praised President Trump's political abilities on Saturday and said the president is plugged in to the country's culture.
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