Rachel Maddow comes back to MSNBC five nights a week just in time to report on Trump’s second term
She isn’t backing down from Trump’s coming storm of disinformation and bluster.
By Daniel Villarreal for LGBTQ Nation –
Lesbian political commentator Rachel Maddow will resume hosting her eponymous MSNBC program The Rachel Maddow Show five nights a week during the first 100 days of the incoming administration of soon-to-be President Donald Trump. She began hosting the program only on Monday nights in May 2022 to focus on four podcasts, a new book, and film projects.
Maddow’s new schedule will begin on the night of Trump’s inauguration on January 20 and go until April 30. The first 100 days of each new presidency has become a somewhat arbitrary measure of the leader’s effectiveness in using their political capital, generally high favorability ratings, and eagerness of a new Congress to advance their agenda, according to Voice of America.
“In the first Trump term, one of the things that we learned was this idea of watching what they do, not what they say,” Maddow recently told USA Today. “The actions of the administration are often much more consequential than whatever crazy thing he’s recently said.”
Maddow acknowledged that news viewership typically goes down following an election. Indeed, MSNBC’s viewership declined 46% after the election compared to the first 10 months of the year, according to The Los Angeles Times. However, she said she expects many viewers to re-engage because Trump’s second term will have serious consequences for many Americans.
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