We mustn’t call the terrorists any bad names…
An MS NOW host accused the Trump Administration of using racially charged language to describe Iran and its allies during a weekend segment discussing recent U.S. military action against the Iranian regime.
During Saturday’s broadcast of The Weekend: Primetime, cohost Antonia Hylton argued that the rhetoric used by President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth reflected what she described as “racism.”
“The other piece of this that I found really disturbing in the messaging around the war recently — and Ayman, I really want your thoughts on this in particular — is some of the language in the description of their opponent,” Hylton said during the segment.
She pointed to how the administration has described Iran and its network of militant proxies.
“Sort of the way they seem to create this image of the Iranians and all of their sort of proxies or allies, the sort of imagery that they conjure up,” she continued. “And I think that it takes a certain amount of arrogance, and I’m also going to say it, a bit of racism, to constantly talk about people like they are savages.”
Hylton specifically referenced language she said had been used by Hegseth in describing adversaries aligned with Iran.
“That is a word that we have heard Hegseth use,” she said. “[They] talk about people as though they are subhuman, too stupid to engage in a war with the United States, incapable of possibly out-maneuvering us, and then find ourselves in the exact position in which it appears they are consistently out-maneuvering us.”
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MSNBC anchor: Trump's attacks on Iran are "racism" pic.twitter.com/eEldKsunEy
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