Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has been eviscerated over her “deranged” rant about President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks — in which she wildly claims that Republicans “want to kill your kids.”
“You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy. What do I mean by pithy? How about this: Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true,” Rubin said with a straight face in a now-viral clip from her podcast “Jen Rubin’s Green Room.”
The scribe, who has been writing opinion pieces for the left-leaning Washington newspaper since 2010, was attempting to give advice to Democrats on how they must condense their messaging.
“If you’re going to oppose vaccinations, if you’re going to stop breakthrough medical research, if you’re going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get semiautomatic weapons — which they use to shoot up schools — well then, you are responsible for kids’ health and death,” she continued.
Outraged conservatives swiftly lined up to trash the political observer over her tirade.
“She should be fired over this if there’s any sanity left in the world,” conservative activist Robby Starbuck wrote on X, tagging Washington Post’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
“In my opinion … this Jennifer Rubin woman sounds like a deranged nut case,” seethed another critic.
“Why the hell would your paper give her an outlet for her literal disgusting rants? It’s people like her that reinforce to the people of the world that your legacy media outlets can’t be trusted.”
Others accused her of suffering from so-called “Trump derangement syndrome,” a pejorative term used to describe Trump’s most fanatical detractors.
“Rubin has been unhinged since Trump won in 2016. As years go by, she’s incapable of any rational thought any longer! Trump broke her,” an X user quipped.
“Jennifer Rubin is a prime example of what is wrong with MSM,” noted another social media observer. “Completely unhinged liberal with free license from her employer to spout BS.”
Earlier on her podcast, Rubin blasted Trump’s controversial nominees as “unfit” and “reckless” and called for members of the Senate to block their confirmations.
Rubin’s employer — billionaire Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos — broke with decades of tradition for the DC paper last month when he declined to let the paper issue a presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.
That decision sparked outrage across the media, but from Rubin in particular, who decried his “bulls–t” explanation for the policy change and accused him of “bending the knee” to Trump for fear of harming his business prospects with a Harris endorsement.
For years Rubin was one of the Obama administration’s loudest critics before embracing the Biden administration in 2020.