A Comparison Of America’s Presidents In Hours Of Crisis | Deadline | MSNBC

Nicolle Wallace discusses past presidents taking on the role of healing the country through painful times, while Donald Trump seeks to sow more division as the nation reels from multiple crises. Aired on 8/31/2020.
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    1. Mr. Smith, my sincere sympathies that your retirement must be as it’s being played out in the US. I’m retired from the service after 38 years, however I live in Canada… Open schools, weekly visits of a doctor to my private residence, restaurants & bars are open with protocols in place. even get first in line status at the public golf courses… Yes, I paid dearly for my retirement with lost brothers and sisters, a broken marriage and debilitating injuries… but I have peace of mind, I will pray for you and your country. Go in faith my friend and cling to what is right, speak against what is wrong and stand strong in having lived your life in dedication to making your country great… Again isn’t even a part of that sentence.

    2. VOTE IN NUMBERS TOO BIG TO RIG. 2016 saw too many Americans too busy to vote and now look. NON VOTES and 3rd party votes are votes FOR trump.

    1. @Ian Dalziel Meanwhile you don’t have enough sense to make 30K a year in the land of opportunity where legal immigrants come here and make a fortune.

    2. @Paul D -Anti-American – where do you get that from?
      Anti-dickhead, sure.
      But your invective choices are certainly amusing

      Have you ever considered discussing and debating rather than abusing and bullying?
      You might learn something about both the person you are talking to _and_ yourself…

    3. @Paul D lololol wow; such an incredibly erudite, intellectually sharp reply!! Impressive display of …. what’s normal for a member of the Trumpite cult.

    1. @Frankie Buelna Everything Trump says or does is antithetical to Christian values. If you think anything other than that, you’re a complete moron. Also, this country was NOT founded on Judeo-Chirstian values. Pick up a history book for once, Trunpster.

    2. @Frankie Buelna Trump is a Christian? Trump believes in God? Can we say brainwashed supporter you are in denial bigly.

    3. @dan taylor Taking a photo op in front of a church holding a Bible upside down is your idea of being a Christian? Did you finish Elementary School? Another brainwashed Trump supporter or should I say a member of the Trump Cult. Clearly in denial.

  1. Although each president has had a failure or success or mistakes, there has never been one like the current POTUS. The leadership is to unite the people in one way or another, to lead the people and the country to the better way, in harmony to the world globally. But this one has never done that. He us not uniting but collecting the same corrupt minded people, all of which are like cult followers, as they are becoming loyalists to Trump, so Trump is basically not uniting but creating his own cultish people, calling to invite all the people to join the “luxurious, boating and golfing life club”… While doing nothing of his duty as the president. Compared with what Trump has done, Nixon’s Watergate seems to be a petite crime. But he lied to the people about the US soldiers in Vietnum to protect his own position. Trump has done the same, lying to the AMERICANS to let the US soldiers killed by enemies. Trump is not American leader, but he is a traitor, a corrupt leader of the organized conspiration, a leader of the cult-like violent radicals.

    1. Watching it from the UK, I have seen many presidents right back to Eisenhower, some we thought were bad, some we disagreed with and some we laughed at but none brought the office of president into such disrepute.
      No previous president has so deliberately divided the nation.

    1. dan taylor I live in the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand. We are a country with 6million in population. An equivalent, to one of your many, States. Our country is very similar to Canada, although on a smaller scale. We are part of the Commonwealth.

      We have Mainstream media broadcasts, like MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, World News and our local channels. And we take our news, at face value and in the context, it’s presented. If it doesn’t make sense, do the research !? And We had our lockdown, as early as March, and we have been open for business since April.

      We have been lucky, that our PM and Health Minister, followed the science data. You guys, have the best Health experts, in the world, and your President should have let them take the lead on Covid, instead of politicising it.

    1. Trump doesn’t represent a single thing about the true spirit of America. Nor do his soulless, uneducated, hateful disciples. The majority of Americans find these freaks absolutely disgusting.

    1. ME:”Yes, perhaps it is. But not OUR president.” He died and we are getting a new REAL president very soon.”

  2. “All those men understood that it was their job…”
    You can stop there. That’s the difference: Trump doesn’t think it’s a job. He thinks he’s the boss. He’s never _had_ a job.

    1. @Robert Clarke The world seen what happened to George Floyd. The cruelties of American police was seen by the entire world. Don’t act coy.

    2. I think he’s responsible for the hate and rage he’s a morally corrupt narcissistic person and he is a racist and non Christian ✝️ piece of crap 💩

  3. He has been tearing this country apart since day one in office. He does not work for America, Russia maybe, but certainly not America.

    1. Brainwashing is real and MSNBC and CNN have done it to all of you liberals. You have been manipulated and made angry by them.

    2. @dan taylor um former conservative independent here…his lack of leadership has now made me more of a moderate-left independent…kinda like Obama hmmm

    3. You guys really know how stupid that sounds? Hillary Clinton had a hissy fit and dragged all of you people in on it. How is he tearing America apart?

    1. He cares about nobody, if his children should go against him he would kick them to the curb. It’s all about the Donald.

    2. what’s that? He is doing a great job and was just nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes. The only reason you liberals hate him so much is because CNN/MSNBC have total control over you. They control the anger levels in America, not Trump. Trump loves America. Democrats only love power.

  4. Trump brings back a civil war. What Conservative mind sees any good in that. GOP today is a party of thugs and criminals.

    1. That been the party’s MO for a long time now. Just because it’s (the decline of America) now in the homes of republican supporters people are crying foul. Give it a break!

    2. And American’s are the most heavily armed country in the world.
      ON BOTH SIDES———RIGHT WINGERS —&
      LEFT WINGERS
      Seems to me it would be better to vote them out if you dont like what they are doing.

  5. If Trump had been President during WW2, Europe would still be waiting for the nazis to magically go away with the summer’s heat…

    1. I think he would intervene as he wouldn’t be able to stand the fact that Hitler would be a rival to him with immense resources. The response might be botched but I don’t think he’d be able to sit on the sidelines.

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