MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes was questioning “who voted for this?” on Thursday night time (April 10) as he touched on President Donald Trump‘s “seemingly pointless” cancelation of an annual nationwide historical past contest for youngsters and youngsters.
Hayes spent 4 minutes of Thursday’s All In speaking about Trump’s newest order, saying, “It’s virtually not possible to maintain up with all of the destruction being brought on by Donald Trump, even when it’s your job to take action like it’s mine.”
He continued, “Now, a few of this we principally knew was going to occur, proper? He campaigned on it. However then there are the issues that simply by no means got here up within the marketing campaign that at the moment are taking place. Some are merciless and seemingly pointless issues that make you surprise who voted for this. For example, who voted towards Nationwide Historical past Day?”
Hayes described the “nationwide historical past competitors that greater than half one million college students work to qualify for annually” as “superior and lovely,” enjoying clips of the scholars competing within the event in 2024.
“I imply, come on, that is probably the most superb, all-American, healthful, non-ideological, non-political factor I can think about, proper?” the host added. “And if you happen to have a look at any native information severely over the previous few weeks, you will notice articles about college students in locations like Iowa or Texas or Mississippi or Ohio or Missouri or Pennsylvania proudly qualifying for his or her regional competitors, after which as soon as they clear that, they go to the large nationwide competitors, which was set to begin in simply 9 weeks.
Nevertheless, as Hayes identified, final week, Trump and Elon Musk “killed” the competitors’s funding. “Why? Who can say? Who the heck is aware of?” he acknowledged. “So the manager director needed to take the social media asking of us to donate so the youngsters could make it to the nationwide competitors in June.”
“Within the context, the federal authorities and Doge and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and the ‘efficiencies’ they’re bringing, $336,000 over two years, or $132,000 for the competitors this 12 months, $132,000 is what they’re saving the taxpayer,” Hayes mentioned. “And that’s all that’s standing between these youngsters and this huge nationwide award that can imprint on them for all times.”
He then mentioned, “Donald Trump might skip one golf weekend down in Florida, and the financial savings might fund Nationwide Historical past Day for many years. Elon Musk will get thousands and thousands of {dollars} a day in federal contracts. I’m wondering if within the marketing campaign, one of many candidates ran on the promise to destroy a historical past contest for sixth graders, if that might have affected anybody’s choice.”
“Significantly, who voted for this?” he concluded.
All In With Chris Hayes, Weeknights, 8 pm et, MSNBC