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Analyzing Trump's Actions With Rev. Al Sharpton & Jennifer Rubin On MSNBC

On Sunday, I appeared on PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton and Jennifer Rubin to discuss how Trump is pursuing the Project 2025 agenda. Plus, clips from my Saturday appearance on NewsNation.

I spent this past weekend making media appearances discussing President Trump’s whirlwind first week in office - a week that definitively demonstrated an unmistakable truth:

Those of us who have been warning about Project 2025’s far-right agenda have, unfortunately, been proven right.

I was honored to be invited on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss Trump’s latest moves and their potential impact after such a consequential week. Rev. Sharpton, Jennifer Rubin, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of

, and I covered a lot, including Trump’s pardons, his mass deportations, and his new incendiary comments about Gaza.

But one truth I made sure to hit especially hard was this: Trump lied to voters about his ties to Project 2025. After he won, he picked at least 11 Project 2025 authors, contributors, and advisory board members for top jobs. Now, nearly two-thirds of his executive orders mirror Project 2025. Trump is twisting the federal government into a tool of the far-right.

Here’s the moment where I broke that down:

This isn’t an attack on “wokeness.” It’s an attack on America’s forward momentum.

You can check out the full 12-minute segment at the top of this article.

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On Saturday, I also made an appearance on NewsNation Now, hosted by Anna Kooiman. I made sure to point out the fact Trump’s executive orders did nothing to address costs and that his DEI rollbacks are actually targeting fundamental civil rights, as I wrote in my latest article. Here are some clips from that appearance if you want to check them out.

My take on the fact Trump isn’t doing anything to lower prices:

My take on Trump’s targeting of fundamental civil rights:

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