Schlossberg: Calling Trump A Fascist Is Not Helpful, “It Feels Good To Call Somebody Something So Extreme”
In an exclusive interview, MSNBC’s Jackie Alemany sat down with Jack Schlossberg for his first television interview since announcing his bid for New York’s 12th Congressional District. Schlossberg is the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy.
ALEMANY: Do you think Trump is a fascist? SCHLOSSBERG: I don’t think that term is actually very helpful. I think Trump is Trump and MAGA is MAGA and it’s a completely new movement. And that they control a propaganda machine bigger than anything humanity has ever seen. He not only controls his own social media platform, which he uses to issue official White House communications, but he is in bed with the leaders of every other platform out there: Elon Musk, Zuckerberg. All of them are working together to spread their– to– to promote their own agenda. And so fascism I think is– is a catchy term or pe– it– it feels good to call somebody something so extreme. But I think this is completely new and an unprecedented threat and we need to respond to it with new creative– ways of fighting back. ALEMANY: So you don’t see any historical analogs here? SCHLOSSBERG: Well, of course there are. I mean, the same strongmen do the same thing over and over throughout history. But I think it’s– it’s– you know, I think President Trump represents a threat unlike any other.
