President Donald Trump’s “appetite for destruction is the most undercovered part” of his story, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace warned Tuesday ― but it’s his growing comfort with using the military as a political weapon that has her alarmed.
Appearing on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Wallace blasted Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles amid protests against his administration’s immigration raids.
“What he’s doing in LA, it’s about creating destruction,” Wallace said, likening Trump to an arsonist who sets a fire and then returns to put it out and save the day.
The real danger, Wallace said, is the lack of guardrails and so-called adults in the room that once restrained Trump during his first term.
“It feels different,” Wallace said. “It feels different to — can we swear here? — fuck around with the military. It feels really different. And he wanted to the first time but ... people stopped him.”
“It feels really different to use the military as pawns out loud and as a public tactic. That feels different to me,” she added.
Wallace, who served as White House communications director under President George W. Bush, said Trump’s current inner circle is far more extreme than before.
“I don’t know any of them,” she said. “Last time, they still came from Republican politics.”
“There are none of them there,” she added.
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