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On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW’s resident “Republican,” Elise Jordan, went on a blistering rant against President Trump—denouncing him as “trashy,” “classless,” and “unhinged” in a tirade that outpaced even her liberal co-hosts.
Reacting to Trump’s Easter post about Iran—featuring an F-bomb profanity, a “praise be to Allah” phrase, and a threat to send Iranians to “hell”—Jordan said she wasn’t supposed to surprised by “the lack of decorum and the trashiness and just the utter classlessness of Donald Trump.”
But she quickly escalated.
I cannot believe that this characterless man is the President of the United States and is behaving this way and representing his people, a majority Christian nation, on Easter Sunday, he is this unholy and unhinged [figure], and being the antithesis of Jesus Christ and his teachings and what Easter is supposed to be all about. It is just infuriating.
At one point, after the complained “he seems to love talking in, you know, sadistic war-criminal ways,” she added he’s “like a child, which I don’t want to insult a child this way by saying that.”
The segment began with co-host Ayman Mohyeldin framing Trump’s post as undignified: “The President of the United States is using that kind of language, profanity, mocking the faith, threatening the country, possibly violating international law, but using even this phrase, praise be to Allah, in a mocking way.”
But it was Jordan who took things to another level, layering moral and even theological condemnation into her critique. Her crescendo came with a complaint that Trump had distracted from what she said should have been a unifying national moment: the rescue of a downed American airman after a grueling 36-hour ordeal.
Instead, Jordan concluded, “we’ve got this jerk just being Donald Trump.”
On MS NOW, even the “Republican” knows her assignment to keep the audience engaged—and delivers it with venom.
Here’s the transcript.
MS NOW
The Weekend: Primetime
4/5/26
6:00 pm EDTAYMAN MOHYELDIN: Here is the President of the United States in his own words, quote, “Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell. Just watch! Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump.”
So imagine on Easter morning, you wake up, and the President of the United States is using that kind of language, profanity, mocking the faith, threatening the country, possibly violating international law, but using even this phrase, praise be to Allah, in a mocking way. It’s an expression used by Muslims that is an expression of faith, It carries a lot of sincerity, and the president is using it in this very mocking and threatening way in a tweet that is full of threatening violence.
ELISE JORDAN: Well, imagine also if a Democrat had used that phrase. There would be cries of creeping Sharia.
ANTONIA HYLTON: Well, if President Obama had used that phrase on Easter morning.
JORDAN: Exactly, exactly. You know, I know I’m not supposed to get upset about the lack of decorum and the trashiness and just the utter classlessness of Donald Trump. But then he does something like this on Easter morning and it really just throws me in a loop again.
And I really am like, I cannot believe that this characterless man is the President of the United States and is behaving this way and representing his people, a majority Christian nation, on Easter Sunday, he is this unholy and unhinged [figure], and being the antithesis of Jesus Christ and his teachings and what Easter is supposed to be all about. It is just infuriating.
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Well, he seems to love talking in, you know, sadistic war-criminal ways, and bomb back to the Stone Age, and having no capacity to have empathy for anyone other than himself.
You know, obviously that’s been a decades, lifelong pattern, but you know we just see it in sharp relief this morning.
And he, you know it’s like a child, which I don’t want to insult a child this way by saying that, but [he’s] bored, and is acting up because the missing airman was found, was rescued after a heroic 36-hour mission, being injured and climbing up 7,000 feet to safety with only a pistol.
And the nation could be celebrating that victory, that, the goodness that he’s coming home, that our military was able to execute that mission.
And instead, we’ve got this jerk just being Donald Trump.
