On MSNBC following President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, hosts and pundits expressed grave concern at a speech that was “dark” and “militant” with anti-Semitic overtones with the use of the phrase “America First.”

Co-host Rachel Maddow seemed emotional, speaking softly about how “it was militant and it was dark, the crime, the gangs, the drugs, this American carnage, disrepair, decay” and a speech Barack Obama couldn’t have given.

Maddow moved to how “America First” frightened her as a harkening back to the World War II era rife with anti-Semitism:

The new President also repeating that our guiding principle will be America first, America first. We know how he has used that as a campaign slogan, that does also have very dark echoes in American history. There was an America First Committee that formed in this country, hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some of the richest businessmen in the country who were part of it, they were formed to keep us out of World War II. They were infiltrated by the Nazis, many of them are anti-Semitic, part of why they weren't alarmed by Hitler's rise in Germany.

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She added that the phrase “is something that means a specific thing in this country” and “to repurpose it now, not that far down the historical path” was “hard to hear.”

Hardball host Chris Matthews actually praised Trump for emphasizing the forgotten men and women of the Rust Belt, but also had some gripes:

Of course, nothing about human rights, nothing about gender rights and other things you'd hear from a Democrat but I thought it was a strong statement to the people who voted for him. I was looking all the people in the cat hats — in the Make America Great hats out there. They wanted to hear this. He said I'm going to be the guy I said I was going to be. You dance with the one that brung ‘em.

Former Bush administration official Nicolle Wallace fell much more along the lines of what Maddow felt, fretting how “it was unnecessarily dark” because it “felt like a bit of an overreaction” to the past three Inaugural address (Bush in 2005, Obama in 2009, and Obama in 2013).

However, the MSNBC liberal that was almost as startled as Maddow as NBC News historian Michael Beschloss. As if none of Obama’s speeches were partisan, the best-selling author complained that Trump wasn’t conciliatory enough for his liking.

“Well, usually you hear an inaugural address an effort to bring the nation together as much as possible and I think that is not the road that Donald Trump took today. If you heard this and you didn't know the occasion for it, I think one might think that this was actually a party convention speech or a campaign speech, not an inaugural address,” Beschloss argued.

Dubbing the speech as “dark” and “fierce,” Beschloss chided the billionaire for offering “very few olive branches thrown to people who are skeptical of him and might be open-minded to support someday Donald Trump as President, or to the other side, people who voted against him and who will never support him.”

“But in the tradition of the inaugural addresses that are intended to heal the country after a bruising campaign, and maybe even expand the Pres — new President's political base and appeal among the American people, hard for me to see how it does that,” he concluded.

Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from MSNBC’s 2017 Presidential Inauguration coverage: