MSNBC host Jen Psaki admitted Tuesday that her cable news network’s liberal-leaning audience only tunes in to watch coverage of President Trump that is “typically not going to be positive.”
Viewers of the embattled network don’t expect to hear favorable news coverage or commentary about the commander in chief, Psaki, the former press secretary for former President Joe Biden, revealed during an appearance on “The Grill Room” podcast.
“We’re going to talk about what the opposing party is up to, in terms of Democrats, and we’re going to talk about future leaders and things,” she told Dylan Byers.
“And, we’re also going to talk about Trump, and it’s typically not going to be positive. I don’t think anybody watching expects it to be positive, right? There is not like a North Star thing written on a card, and everybody does it slightly differently … that’s fairly the vibe.”
Psaki noted that while she has featured Republicans on her cable news program, she’s never been directed by her bosses to appeal to right-leaning viewership.
“I have not experienced this like, ‘You have to move to the center, you have to have Republicans on, you have to be more moderate’,” she continued.
“Every show kind of has a North Star, but the vibe is, kind of, under the same umbrella.”
Psaki recently secured a new primetime slot as part of a massive shakeup at the embattled network – taking over 9 p.m. duties Thursday through Friday from ousted host Alex Wagner, the network announced in February.
Wagner will remain at MSNBC as a senior political analyst.
The overhaul at the left-leaning network by new president Rebecca Kutler also includes axing weekend shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang and Jose Diaz-Balart, and Trump-bashing anchor Joy Reid.
Paski’s latest promotion will see “The Rachel Maddow Show” reduced from four days to one — with Maddow’s show only airing Mondays.
“First of all, there is only one Rachel Maddow,” Psaki said, explaining that the MSNBC bigwig has highlighted fierce protests against Trump during his first 100 days in office.
“People are scared at home, you have to give them some sense of what is also happening.”
She also acknowledged that there is “no clear leader” of the Democratic Party.
“What is clear is that things shouldn’t be done how they were done in the past,” she noted.
