MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Cheers Brutal Trump-Bashing Speech: ‘Shoot That Right Into My Veins!’

Tommy Christopher Aug 26th, 2025, 12:13 pm

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow cheered Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D) blistering speech trashing President Donald Trump as a “wannabe dictator,” exclaiming, “Shoot that right into my veins!”

Trump spent his Monday threatening to expand his police takeover to Chicago, a notion that prompted a scathing response from Pritzker.

On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show , the host opened her show by playing an extended chunk of that speech, and praising the governor’s tough talk:

GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D), ILLINOIS: …To the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsake

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