By Molly Goddard
8:59am PDT, Apr 23, 2025
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Jen Psaki is well aware of the way MSNBC covers
Donald Trump.
During a Tuesday, April 22, appearance on the "The Grill Room" podcast, the news anchor copped to the fact that the left-leaning network is "typically not going to be positive" when reporting on the current commander-in-chief and his administration.
Keep reading to learn what Psaki said about the left-leaning station's stance on Trump…
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"There's obviously a rooted value in that MSNBC viewers expect of how we're going to talk about the opposition and we're going to talk about what the opposing party is up to, in terms of the democrats, and we're going to talk about future leaders and things," Jen Psaki explained to host
Dylan Byers about the network's refute of Donald Trump and Republicans.
The former press secretary to ex-President
Joe Biden made it clear they aren't looking to soften up their coverage any time soon. "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's not like a North Star thing written on a card and everybody does it slightly differently, but I think that's fairly the vibe," she added.
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Despite recent shake-ups at
MSNBC, Jen Psaki made it clear she's never been made to feel like she should not be as extreme left as she is in her reporting or extend an olive branch across political lines.
"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, you can't say that thing,'" she explained. "What's unique is that every show kind of has a bit of a North Star, but the vibe is, kind of, under the same umbrella."
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While the new network president,
Rebecca Kutler, promoted Jen Psaki and moved
Rachel Maddow's show from four days to one, the former government official made it clear she's in no way replacing her colleague.
"First of all, there is only one Rachel Maddow," Psaki said. "One of the things that she's talked about internally and probably publicly, too, we can't project fear upon the audience. People are scared at home, you have to give them some sense of what else is also happening."
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Although Jen Psaki and MSNBC seem to be staying strong to their opposition to the party in power, the journalist made it clear she knows the
democrats need to do some soul-searching before the next election.
"What is clear is that things shouldn't be done how they were done in the past," she noted. "I think that makes for an interesting conversation, much more information than when the party is in charge of everything."
