Ex-MSNBC host Chris Matthews praises Donald Trump’s political instincts

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Ex-MSNBC host Chris Matthews praised President Donald Trump throughout a dialog with Charlie Rose on Saturday, suggesting the president had a robust cultural connection to the nation.

"He’s excellent at realizing your situation, your worries, your insecurities. I imply, he’d be a terrific bully in a grade faculty, a Catholic highschool or grade faculty. I imply, he’d be the scariest bully as a result of he’d know all people’s weak spot. However he’s actually good in the meanwhile. I imply, he’s on the market watching tv and maintaining, and, ‘Is that this the best factor to do, what we’re doing proper now?’" Mattews told Rose . "Biden couldn’t do this in one million years, not one million years. Mondale couldn’t do this. They don’t have the connection to the electrical energy of what’s happening within the nation culturally. And he is aware of what works."

Matthews, the previous host of "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on MSNBC, spoke to Rose throughout his present, "A Charlie Rose International Dialog."

Rose started the dialogue by asking Matthews how he would fee the president as a politician.

Chris Matthews spoke to Charlie Rose on his present "A International Dialog" on Saturday about President Trump's skills as a politician. (Left: Photograph by Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs, Proper: Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)

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"We've by no means had a president so immediately spontaneous that he is aware of this minute, if he had stated at 4 o’clock this afternoon, he would say, ‘, that’s probably not true anymore.’ He'll know the temper of the nation. I as soon as had a chat with him concerning the ‘Zoolander’ film, Ben Stiller film, and he stated, ‘Zoolander 1,’ good timing. ‘Zoolander 2,’ didn’t work. He’s instantaneous," Matthews stated.

The former MSNBC host stated Trump knew tips on how to put down Jeb Bush and several other of his GOP opponents.

Matthews additionally argued that Trump was a robust public determine.

"His power remains to be higher than the Democratic power," he informed Rose. "He's a stronger public determine than the Democratic individuals. I imply, Obama nonetheless has large charisma, however Trump has power. And I believe that’s what all voters search for. They need a president who's a robust determine. And he’s obtained it. It’s simply there. And half the nation buys it."

President Donald Trump arrives on the South Garden of the White Home from Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc)

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He additionally stated that he did not consider polls that confirmed Trump's recognition slipping.

"To be sincere with you, the nation is transferring in the direction of Trump!" Matthews informed Rose. "These polls, they arrive out and present him not doing nicely, I don’t purchase that."

Matthews provided some political reward for Trump earlier this yr over his efforts in opposition to elite establishments.

"I've to say that the administration generally units its targets in the best course. The elite universities on this nation aren't precisely coated in roses proper now in the way in which that they dealt with these demonstrations," Matthews said throughout MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in April.

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Matthews lamented that protests over the Israel-Hamas warfare over the past yr prevented college students from going to class, and stated each pupil - Jewish or not - had a proper to attend the courses they're paying for at universities like Harvard.

"And the truth that they needed to be informed to do that, they needed to be informed to let college students go to high school, which is what that is about, that they needed to be informed to do, that that they had an issue in their very own heads. So I believe the elite universities are taking a beating proper now. It’s most likely a wise transfer," he stated on the time.