On Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz attacked President Trump’s second term with a string of false claims and cheap shots — all while running for his own third term. Democrats and the media scream “dictator” when it comes to Trump, yet they stay silent when Walz clings to power beyond two terms.
Walz opened by mocking the Trump economy and insisting he’s “not doing anything”:
“Is your life better with Donald Trump? Are you sick and tired of this? He didn’t do a damn thing for prices. He’s not doing anything. Good luck with your coffee coming up here because of the tariffs. It’s all these things, so I don’t, you know, I don’t wanna panic people. Democracy is certainly on the line.”
That’s a lie. Nine months into Trump’s second term, inflation is cooling sharply — the CPI rose 2.9% year-over-year in August 2025, compared to the 9.1% peak under Biden in 2022. On September 17, 2025, thanks to President Trump, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to 4.00%–4.25%, easing borrowing costs for families and businesses. Far from “doing nothing,” Trump has done more in nine months than most presidents do in four years: he’s unleashed domestic drilling and refining, rolled back suffocating regulations, and put the U.S. on track for lower prices just as he did in his first term, when inflation averaged under 2%. He’s also using targeted tariffs to protect American workers and industries — a bold plan no recent president had the guts to take on.
Walz justified running again and again:
“But there’s a lot of basic things that we can do at the state level that can try and fend off some of this. So that’s why I’m back in again and, and again. The voters will decide.”
Authoritarian silence: Democrats and the media call Trump a “dictator” for serving his second constitutional term. Yet when Walz seeks a third, they stay silent.
Next, Walz tried to smear Trump’s supporters as regressive while bragging about his own mandates:
“My god, I’m home to the Mayo Clinic. I had to issue an executive order that if you wanna get a vaccine, you can. I mean, we have gone back 50 years with these people, and, um, Minnesota is not going back. We refuse. It stops at our border. The nonsense stops at our border.”
Walz was bragging about his September 2025 executive order (EO 25-09), which told Minnesota health officials to issue a standing order so pharmacists could keep administering COVID-19 and flu vaccines — including to children as young as three — without requiring a separate prescription. He spun it as though he single-handedly guaranteed vaccine access. In reality, vaccines were already widely available nationwide long before his order. EO 25-09 didn’t create universal access overnight; it simply tweaked state rules in response to shifting federal guidelines. In truth, it was political theater.
And those other lines — “we have gone back 50 years” and “it stops at our border” — are recycled talking points. The real regression came from Democrat lockdowns, school closures, and heavy-handed mandates that disrupted education, crushed small businesses, and hurt families nationwide.
Only after all that did Walz gush over Illinois Governor JB Pritzker:
“Every time I see JB Pritzker stand up there, I swell with pride, cause I know he’s fighting the good fight too.”
That’s astounding. Under Pritzker’s leadership, Illinois has become one of America’s biggest cautionary tales:
▪️Sky-high crime in Chicago and other cities.
▪️Massive outmigration — Illinois ranks 3rd worst in the nation, with more than 56,000 people fleeing to other states in one year.
▪️Crushing debt and heavy taxes — over $140 billion in pension debt and one of the highest state/local tax burdens in the country, a top reason residents cite for leaving.
▪️Policies favoring illegal immigrants while legal citizens shoulder the costs — more than $2.5 billion spent on migrant care since 2023.
Illinois continues to bleed residents, while violent crime and fiscal mismanagement spiral. If Walz “swells with pride” over that record, it says everything about his vision for Minnesota.
Walz lied about President Trump, distorted the record on vaccines, praised a failed Democrat governor, and normalized his own third-term power grab — and Psaki let him get away with it.