Maddow: 'Trump weirdness and destruction' produces ceaseless string of bizarre headlines

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow relays a series of stories that in any normal administration would be a shattering cascade of scandals, but in the perpetually disgraced Trump administration is merely a string of ordinary headlines of entirely typical waste, corruption and incompetence.

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0:00.0	We are now officially MS now instead of MSNBC.
0:04.0	Very exciting, right?
0:06.0	Many years ago on this show, for some reason, we acted out most of the plot of Moby Dick
0:13.0	during a show.
0:15.0	Honestly, we did all of this just to prove a very small point.
0:20.0	Something about John Boehner and what Republicans were doing in the debt ceiling.
0:23.5	I don't know.
0:24.1	We had a boat.
0:25.0	We had waves.
0:26.3	We had a whale.
0:29.8	Now that we are MS now instead of MSNBC, what that means in practical terms is that we had to just move offices.
0:35.9	We moved studios, moved offices.
0:37.4	For us on the Rachel
0:38.8	Maddo show, that included needing to unscrew our whale from the wall in our old offices.
0:48.2	That whale has lived there for 12 years. He's very comfortable there. But we took him down
0:53.9	off the wall in the old offices.
0:55.5	We brought him outside. This was the first time the whale had ever been on the streets of Manhattan.
1:01.8	We took him on a field trip through Times Square, along with our plant. We introduced our whale to our new
1:10.7	offices. And now he is proudly swimming
1:14.5	free on our new office walls. Proudly, our office mascot once again in our new MSNal office space.
1:24.1	So this is, I'm telling you this, and I'm showing you this to prove to you that nothing
1:28.6	is changing except the name. Not even the whale is changing. It was the MSNBC, Rachel Maddo
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