Donald Trump says former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel put herself in a bad place by admitting to NBC’s “Meet the Press” she knew the 2024 election wasn’t rigged — then being canned by the network that hired her two days before the interview aired.
“Wow! Ronna McDaniel got fired by Fake News NBC. She only lasted two days, and this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “It leaves her in a very strange place, it’s called NEVER NEVERLAND, and it’s not a place you want to be.”
McDaniel gave up her job as head of the RNC earlier this month, paving the way for Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump to lead the party. While in that post, the 51-year-old political operative supported the former president’s baseless claims that he’d been cheated out of a second term.
NBC News announced Friday that McDaniel would appear as a contributor across its media platforms. That decision went over poorly with many NBC News personalities, who complained their new colleague pushed election lies and undermined journalists in her previous job.
Despite McDaniel’s confession on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” that she knew Joe Biden beat Donald Trump “fair and square” in the 2020 election, the network announced Tuesday it was cutting her loose.
Trump’s Truth Social rant added “the top people at NBC ARE WEAK,” and mocked the news organization’s talent as “highly overpaid.”
Politico reported McDaniel’s NBC News contract was for two years at $300,000 annually. The terms of her severance are unclear.
Democratic National Committee spokesman Alex Floyd called McDaniel’s brief stint with NBC News a “desperate attempt to whitewash her record as an election-denying MAGA enabler ” and said in a statement she has “no place in politics – or in the media.”
