Both before and after their brutal rhetorical beatdowns at the hands of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), NBC’s inauguration coverage paddled the struggle boat as, over the course of six-plus hours of post-ceremonies coverage, they voiced their own set of grievances over President Trump’s “searing,” “single most partisan,” “very dark” speech that’s put him at “risk” of “overstepping what he claims is already a mandate” with a series of executive orders that one was even compared to Japanese internment camps.
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, and Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker went first after Trump’s speech, talking about the “lower key tone” speech as an “searing” and “unsparing critique” of the Biden presidency:
NBC’s Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie react to Trump’s…
