Maddow: Trump Is ‘An Authoritarian Guy’ Who Is Ensuring A.I. Can Kill Us– www.newsbusters.org

NBC’s Seth Meyers welcomed MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow to Tuesday’s edition of Late Night for the nightly anti-Trump gripe session. Maddow made sure to hit the usual notes, including calling Trump “an authoritarian guy,” but hit some new ones as well as she claimed that Trump is ensuring that the military will be able to kill us all with A.I.

At one point in their discussion, Meyers said of Trump, “Rachel, I don’t know if you agree with me. I think he might be unwell.”

Amid laughter and applause from the audience, Maddow responded, “Well—I can’t speak to that. But I can say one thing, which is he’s a type. Right? He is—and I don’t just mean, like, ‘New York real estate scam artist.’ I mean, like, he’s a type. He’s an authoritarian guy. He’s Blond Berlusconi. You know what I mean?”

Rachel Maddow tells Seth Meyers that Trump is “an authoritarian guy. He’s Blond Berlusconi” and that he’s gonna get us all killed “So, it’s like been hard, I think, to imagine, ‘How is it that the A.I. Apocalypse would happen?’ ‘How is it that A.I. Might kill us?’ Well, the… pic.twitter.com/hFXpl3FMOj

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 30, 2026