Ecstatic Rachel Maddow takes smug dig at 'laughingstock' Trump as she lists his 'compounding failures'

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off her Monday night show with a lengthy rant that took pleasure in Donald Trump's recent political setbacks.

Already laughing, she warned how 'generally speaking, having a bad president is bad for a country.'

'I mean you don't wish that on any country anywhere. Most particularly, you don't wish it on a country that you love.'

'That said, what we are learning right now, what we are living through right now, is the fact that when you have a bad president, turns out he's also bad at pursuing the things that he wants for himself,' Maddow continued.

The anchor went on to offer what she framed as the 'next-best' strategy when 'you're up against someone with evil intent'. The first was waiting for them to come sort of sense of change themselves.

'But if you can't get that, the next best thing you can hope for is that they'll be an incompetent buffoon who fails at everything he tries,' Maddow, 53, went on.

'And in the case of Donald Trump, what we are experiencing right now is his compounding failures, his blustering incompetence and his illiteracy kind of paying off for us as a country.

'In his failure and incompetence, he is right now lessening his own power, his own sway, even over his own party.'

Maddow went on to bill Trump as being not only self-interested, but 'corrupt' and 'incompetent.' 

She rattled off a list of legal and political predicaments the president found himself in at the start of the week. 

A graphic behind her framed Monday as not only being the longest day of the year for Americans literally, but for Trump figuratively as well.

'His "Alligator Alcatraz" has been emptied and now it will be boarded up or bulldozed,' Maddow boasted, noting how vendors operating the Florida immigration facility were told to shut down on Monday morning. 

'That performatively cruel, moral and practical disaster. They have now had to close it. And as of today, it's gone,' Maddow said. She expressed optimism that other 'prison camps' set up would be 'sold back at a loss or given away' as well.     

'And his subpoenas and indictments targeting his critics and his opponents are being thrown out,' the anchor continued. 

A Republican-appointed federal judge ruled that six subpoenas from the DOJ targeting officials in Minnesota and Minneapolis on Monday were more than likely issued for unlawful reasons.

Another federal jurist found the administration illegally created a new voter verification database using the private information of millions of Americans to facilitate voter surveillance in early 2025 on Monday as well. 

Maddow then highlighted bids from the administration to stop funding for Ukraine and dismantle a crucial ocean monitoring system that offers information on the health of the world's oceans that were shot down this month.

'Now we've got Congress suddenly awake,' Maddow said, after bipartisan backlash from representatives saw both bids shut down.

She also complimented a third federal judge for blocking construction of Trump's $400million ballroom at the White House earlier this month, pending congressional approval.

'And I know it's not to say he's not doing incredible harm. Having a bad president is bad,' Maddow went on to disclaim.

She turned to Trump's controversial deal to end the war in Iran and the administration's $14million renovation of the Reflecting Pool by a never-before-used contractor that made it appear green.

Maddow called the latter 'a disgusting chemistry experiment that now maybe kills ducks,' following a Monday report from the Washington Post that revealed two dead ducks were found in a pond at the Constitution Gardens on the National Mall nearby.

Another dead duckling was found floating in the recently renovated site on Sunday.

'At least three dead as of tonight with a local animal rescue group saying they're going to basically conduct autopsies on two of the dead ducks,' Maddow reported. 

'And they hope to get the results in the next few days.'

Maddow went on to criticize the commander-in-chief for 'holding a rally for himself' next week, after 'just los[ing] a war.'  

The nation's 250th anniversary celebration is still slated for next week.   

'Meanwhile, Trump's having his federal agents arrest anyone who touches the reflecting pool so he can try to blame other people for how much he's messed it up,' Maddow said, referring to reports of five people being arrested.

The president's provisional deal with Iran has been met with criticism from both sides of the aisle since it was signed last week.

Under the terms of the agreement, the US 'undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this [Memorandum of Understanding.'

The US has also promised 'to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, and to immediately issue waivers for the sale of Iranian oil.

Specific details about Iran’s nuclear program, meanwhile, have been left to future negotiations. The talks are required to take place over the next several weeks.

The Trump administration has maintained that its agreement is stronger than Barack Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Several Democrats and Republicans have insisted otherwise.