Schadenfreude refers to the feeling of pleasure or satisfaction derived from another person’s misfortune. These two sound deranged to me. What do you think?
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Chris Hayes: You know, we all have to live in this world.
Alex Wagner: Unfortunately, we do, Chris.
Chris Hayes: I know, but it’s, and it’s not been fun, but it was nice to have a day for this one.
Alex Wagner: Well, it’s nice to have a day with a heavy dose of Schadenfreude. Right? We all knew this was coming. These people have been acting poorly in the interests of the American public and now they’ve revealed themselves to be the charlatans that they actually are.
Chris Hayes: Yeah. And I think the other thing about it is, again, some clean hits by both men. That’s the other thing, right? Yes, this is exactly what I’ve been saying. This is the thing that’s been so maddening about Trump all these years. It’s also in some cases been true about Elon where I can sit here, you can sit there, and we can make this point over and over again. And then the people closest to him, will leave the administration the next day say exactly the same thing. And it’s like, okay, we’re not, we don’t have Trump derangement syndrome. We’re not crazy. It is exactly what it was.
Alex Wagner: It’s finally not the willful denial of reality. But I also have to say, as someone who just helped performed, perform this, you know, this is not something we, we should not like. This is a moment in American history where you’re seeing the most powerful man, the leader in many ways of the free world, Donald Trump go head to head with the richest man in the world. Two people absent any empathy or humility, one of whom may or may not be addicted to ketamine. And the public has in large, I mean, the public reelected Donald Trump and this is the show maybe they wanted and this is the show they got.
Chris Hayes: It is upsetting.
Alex Wagner: It’s really. It’s so bad.
Chris Hayes: And when you think about what the world is saying watching this.
Alex Wagner: Exactly.
Chris Hayes: I wanna bring in Asawin Suebsaeng whose been reporting on this interior MAGA factional fight, a senior political report for Rolling Stone, he’s covering the latest in the Musk Trump feud.
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What is Alex Wagner talking about when she said, “But I also have to say, as someone who just helped performed, perform this?”
It sounds like she confessed to performing the media spectacle, deliberately amplifying the Trump-Musk X feud on MSNBC.
Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner, MSNBC’s fake news duo, whine, “We all have to live in this world, unfortunately,” gloating with “schadenfreude”—joy at others’ misfortune—over Trump and Musk’s X feud. They call both “charlatans,” but their bias shines through. Hayes insists, “We don’t have Trump derangement syndrome,” and “We’re not crazy,” yet their attacks scream TDS.
Wagner’s “ketamine” jab at Musk distorts his acknowledged medical use into a cheap shot. Her exaggerated facial expressions and loose-lipped delivery make her appear under the influence. The claim that Trump and Musk lack empathy or humility is baseless: Trump combats human, child, and sex trafficking and strengthens U.S. borders for global safety; Musk exposes government waste, fraud, and corruption while connecting millions via Starlink. Both demonstrate empathy and humility, risking everything to challenge a corrupt system. Their feud? Merely a clash of personalities.
Wagner and Hayes, who fail to report on or show empathy for Americans murdered, molested, raped, robbed, or harmed by illegal aliens daily across every state, deny reality and display no humility.