MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was a living, breathing edition of Notable Quotables on Inauguration Day, offering takes ranging from joking about Mussolini and former President George W. Bush hugging Supreme Court justices to this now-infamous quip that President Trump’s speech was “Hitlerian.”

Matthews’s Nazism connection went hand-in-hand with other media reactions to Trump’s inaugural address, but this one came roughly 30 minutes after it ended.

“But I’m thinking when he said today ‘America First’ it was not just the racial, I mean the, um, I shouldn’t say racial, the Hitlerian background to it. But it was the message I kept thinking, what is Theresa May thinking this morning, when she picks up the papers and goes ‘My God, what did he just say, he said America first, what happened to the special relationship,’” Matthews complained.

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Earlier, the topic of discussion was the White House power structure of Reince Preibus and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner when Matthews joked to co-host Rachel Maddow that “it’s hard to fire your son-in-law.”

Maddow responded “[t]hat’s why the nepotism laws are there,” but Matthews had other ideas that sent Maddow into a frenzy:

MATTHEWS: [B]ut Mussolini had a great solution to that. He had him executed. So, it’s — MADDOW: Jesus, Chris! MATTHEWS: So, if I were Jared, I’d be a little careful. MADDOW: Well, all the people who are waiting for the reference to Mussolini have just started drinking.

Moments after Trump and Barack Obama arrived at the U.S. Capitol, Matthews returned for more lunacy by showing an inability to let go what transpired in the 2000 presidential election:

MATTHEWS: You know, Rachel, I just saw the warm embrace that W. gave to the Supreme Court justices, especially the Republican ones and I realize why he embraced him? They put him in office. [LAUGHTER] There’s Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, I know you guys! MADDOW: We call them constituents. MATTHEWS: His constituents. JOY REID: That was gratitude. EUGENE ROBINSON: There is that. WILLIAMS: Their warm embrace for him was called Bush v. Gore. [LAUGHTER]

Earth to Matthews, but John Roberts wasn’t on the Supreme Court until September 29, 2005 and Bush v. Gore was decided on December 12, 2000. Try again, bud.

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