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MSNBC’s New Show Asks If Trump Defunded PBS Because He Thinks Elmo Is Black

Tuesday saw the second-ever installment of MSNBC’s The Weeknight, featuring Alicia Menendez, former Kamala Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders-Townsend, and former RNC chairman and current liberal talking points repeater Michael Steele. The trio of Joy Reid replacements did their best to continue her legacy by wondering if President Trump decided to defund PBS because he thinks Elmo is black.

After playing a 2005 clip where Sesame Street parodied Trump, an aghast Menendez claimed she has been, “trying to figure out why they are so mad at Molly of Denali and Arthur and those wombats were just trying to work it out.”

 

 

Answering her own question, she continued, “And this quote from the Department of Education made it very clear. This is a spokesperson for the department who said that the Ready to Learn grants were funding ‘racial justice…

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