Nicolle Wallace let her snooty slip show.
On Wednesday’s Deadline White House, the MSNBC show she hosts, Wallace suggested that Walmart is the place you shop only if you’re on the road and forgot an item.
“I mean, you might [be] someplace—travel baseball. So you go into lots of places and Walmart is where, if you forgot, you know, something you need. If you forgot a glove or a sock, you know, they have that.”
Right. NYC-based Wallace is presumably more of a Zabar’s person. Or perhaps Whole Foods–though Nicolle might be miffed after Bezos scotched WaPo’s endorsement of Kamala, and left her off the list to blast off into near-space with Lauren, Gayle King, et. al.
If Wallace were forced to wander into a Walmart, you could imagine her donning a hoodie and big sunglasses, lest her fellow elitists hear about her going so déclassé.
So this is rare for the rest of us? Walmart reports “Each week, approximately 255 million customers and members visit our more than 10,500 stores and numerous eCommerce websites in 19 countries.”
FWIW, Walmart is my go-to store. I was there this morning, picking up raspberries, blackberries, green grapes, and two boxes of Quaker cereal. No hoodie required.
Blaming President Trump, Wallace also claimed that the economy is “in a state of mortal danger.” Her evidence? The Dow was down 700 points today.
Hey, it was chilly here in North Carolina this morning. Guess we’re in for an Ice Age!
Here’s the transcript.
MSNBC
Deadline White House
4/16/25
4:00 pm EDTNICOLLE WALLACE: Hi, everyone. It’s 4 o’clock in New York. It is without question Donald Trump’s single biggest vulnerability right now, and the greatest threat to his standing even among his own voters and supporters.
Remember, many Americans signed up for a wholesale disruption of the status quo and are not yet startled by the dismantling of federal agencies. Many of them wanted to turn the tables on some of our most trusted alliances, and many approve of more aggressive policies on immigration and deportations.
But what no one, not a single voter, signed up for was an economy that is right now flashing red in a state of mortal danger. Just look at how the Dow closed today, down around 700 points.
. . .
STEVE LIESMAN: Get what you get. You know, you mess around and then you find out. And what we’re finding out is that these trade relationships are very important to big companies. And I think what you just said, Nicolle, is really significant, that individual Americans are finding out just how important these trade relationships are.
WALLACE: What is the posture of sort of the largest retailers in the country? I mean, you might [be] someplace, travel baseball. So you go into lots of places and Walmart is where, if you forgot, you know, something you need. If you forgot a glove or a sock, you know, they have that. If you need groceries, you know that, you know, they have that.
