According to an online rumor, while filming an episode of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" in mid-November 2024, the show's host — Rachel Maddow — broke down in tears and left the set abruptly. The Facebook account America — Love It Or Leave It posted on Nov. 14, 2024:
Rachel Maddow broke down crying and ran off set, once again proving the left's inability to reach age 12.
(Facebook/America — Love It Or Leave It)
Based on the post's comments, some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. However, there was no evidence of Maddow crying and running off the set of "The Rachel Maddow" show in November 2024.
Maddow has cried while the cameras were rolling, but that happened in 2018 — during President-elect Donald Trump's first term — when she discussed the separation of immigrant families at the U.S. border. She did not leave the set.
The November 2024 rumor originated with the America - Love It Or Leave It Facebook page. That page is part of a network of sites and social media accounts that describes its output as humorous or satirical in nature, called America's Last Line of Defense (ALLOD).
The bio for the America - Love It Or Leave It Facebook page reads:
A subsidiary of America's Last Line of Defense network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real.
The fictional story about Maddow spread just days after The New Yorker published her concerns about Trump's 2024 election win.
ALLOD has a history of making up stories for shares and comments. Snopes has addressed similar satirical claims by the network in the past, including the assertion that Elon Musk promised to pay for Trump's "extravagant inauguration bash" and a rumor that soccer star Megan Rapinoe was leaving the country due to a "massive red wave."
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical: