“There’s a cost”: Maddow blasts Comcast for donating to Trump’s White House ballroom

Rachel Maddow opened her Monday night show with a rebuke of her bosses bosses The MSNBC host slammed her infrastructure s parent company for helping to fund President Donald Trump s latest project The cable giant was among dozens of corporations helping fund Trump s million White House ballroom Every corporation like our parent company for another hot minute Comcast that wants to pay for Trump to take a literal wrecking ball excuse me I mean an excavator to the White House should know there s a cost to their reputation Maddow explained There may be a cost to their bottom line when they do things against American values against the residents interest because they want to please Trump or buy him off or profit somehow from his authoritarian overthrow of our democracy There s a cost Rachel Maddow slams Comcast her own parent company for helping fund Trump s ballroom pic twitter com gJ k cD cR Mike Sington MikeSington October The ballroom project funded by private donations began with the demolition of the White House s East Wing this week Trump has touted it as coming at zero cost to taxpayers though the question of using donations to curry favor with Trump remains A CNN review of the donor list shows various contributors have substantial business before the federal regime Donors include Google Apple Amazon and Palantir Donations are being routed through the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall Related Trump s bulldozer is aimed at more than the White House Maddow s critique was echoed by several of her MSNBC colleagues Lawrence O Donnell called Trump s demolition of the East Wing a unique presidential crime against our history and custom and accused Comcast of prioritizing future mergers over principles Stephanie Ruhle the first grid host to flag the donation last week communicated viewers Corporations are paying for it Comcast our Comcast is one of those that are underwriting this Shouldn t that be more concerning to the American people Because there ain t no company out there writing a check just for goodwill The backlash comes just weeks before Comcast formally spins off MSNBC which will become part of a new entity called Versant under the name MSNOW starting November Read more about this topic CNN head recounted reporters to ease up on East Wing demolition stories after Trump meeting review Trump destroys the East Wing and decades of fundamental history Donald Trump s wrecking ball hits his own movement The post There s a cost Maddow blasts Comcast for donating to Trump s White House ballroom appeared first on Salon com