Maddow tonight-don't fear Trump:

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Maddow said:

This Trump presidency wants to be seen as fearsome, right? They want to be seen as powerful and scary. They want people to be afraid of them. But what they really are in equal measure is awful and weird. And it's worth being afraid of that because it's weird and awful and scary to have somebody that weird and awful in charge of the federal government. But it's not fearsome in the way they mean it to be. It's fearsome in the sense of like, oh my god, these people are in charge of what? I mean, Trump really did pardon the guy who bragged about pooping in the US Capitol, and that footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is a real thing. And the bizarre thing with his justice department today and its pronouncement on the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, what are we supposed to make of all that from these people?

At the same time, he's got the military, the US military deployed in Los Angeles, California, while the National Guard is now asking, please, for its troops back because, among other things, they need to prepare for wildfire season. But no, Trump today, for whatever reason, sent a small army of federal agents and National Guard troops in military vehicles and on horseback into a park in Los Angeles for a big, weird show of force that nobody can figure out.

There was nobody in the park. They didn't seem to have any reason to be there. But this is how they fanned out across a mostly empty Macarthur park in Los Angeles, California, today. What's that about? What are you doing? The president of the Los Angeles city council telling reporters today, quote, looked like a staging for a TikTok video saying that if border patrol wants to film in Los Angeles, quote, you should apply for a film permit like everybody else, and stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city.

The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, showed up herself at MacArthur park while Trump's agents were doing whatever they were doing there today made them look all the more ridiculous, with them masked up, dressed up like they're going to repel out of helicopters into Fallujah. Here's the mayor in her light blue suit saying, guys, what's up here? She basically shooed them away and they left.

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