"All these guys that are playing dopes on television ... it is so insulting"

He then listed the conservative politicians that he feels are most egregiously play acting the populist part, starting with former President Donald Trump, to which he said “I don’t know how his dad got him into school, but he got into Penn.”

“Then you have DeSantis, Yale, and Harvard. You have Ted [Cruz], Princeton and Harvard,” he continued while an image of Stanford and Yale-educated Josh Hawley showed up on screen. “All these guys that are playing dopes on television, like you said, it is so insulting, this populist game they play. It is insulting.”

And so it went until later in segment Rev. Al Sharpton compared this observation to minstrelry of a (thankfully) bygone era in American history.

“It’s the ultimate level of cynicism,” Sharpton noted. “It’s like we’d call blackface use when you’re trying to mock blacks. They’re mocking people that they never were. I think it means that they really hold them in contempt and their politics really holds them in contempt.”