Rachel Maddow Pitches New Trump Reality Show on ‘The View’

MS Now star anchor Rachel Maddow continued her media blitz in support of her new book, Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution, on Wednesday’s (November 11) new episode of The View.

In addition to discussing some of the latest political news, including the Democrats’ sweep of the Congressional and state races, the House’s failed effort to impeach Pete Hegseth, and the current state of Washington, she also had a curious thought. When asked about whether Donald Trump and his MAGA movement were on the decline after the election, she noted that he is still in office for two more years but he could choose to leave … and she had just the idea for how to make it happen.

“Did you ever watch that show Pimp My Ride? It was my favorite reality show of all time. I just thought somebody should suggest to Donald Trump — he loves all the redecorating stuff, turning the Oval Office gold and erecting little statues and things everywhere. Somebody just offer him a TV show that’s like Trump My House or Trump My Town. And give him little budgets to go put up foam core gold things and do whatever,” she suggested.

The cohosts weren’t exactly opposed to the idea of that, either. Whoopi Goldberg suggested, “What if we gave him The Island? What if we said, ‘You give us back the $1 billion … and you can go to the island. You could buy that island. You could put all the gold you want.”

Joy Behar chimed in to earn a laugh, per usual, saying, “That’s a good idea. Rikers!”

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Elsewhere in the interview, Maddow said that her biggest takeaway from the midterm elections was the size of the turnout for those who participated in the votes. “I will admit, I am one of those liberals who believes that we are in an existential fight for the constitutional republic. Yeah, I think that the president leads an authoritarian movement that sort of like strongmen all over the world is saying, ‘Elections don’t matter, and I alone can fix it, and the government is weak and elections are weak and your vote doesn’t really count and it’s all rigged.’ They all have the same message all over the world, but that’s telling people not to vote, that it’s not worth voting because voting doesn’t really count. And to have people turn out in such huge numbers, young people, especially young people, Latinos, African American voters, it’s everybody just saying, ‘We don’t believe you. Actually, we do believe in our system, and we’re going to use it to make our lives better.'”

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Maddow also explained of her viral moments from election night coverage in which she poured a giant glass of wine for herself, saying, “That’s not a little something. That is literally, it’s called a tankard. That is a tankard of chardonnay. I had to get the extra-big bottle so that I wouldn’t have emptied it in one pour.” She agreed with the sentiment of the person who wrote, “Rachel Maddow is all of us right now,” saying, “I do think I’m sort of speaking for all of us today. We all need to be numbed a little about it.”

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