Joe Scarborough Rips Fox’s Peter Doocy for ‘Twisted’ Zelensky Question: ‘The Kremlin Couldn’t Have Written It Better’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy’s pointed question to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, perceiving the framing as something “the Kremlin couldn’t have written” better.

During a joint press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Doocy asked the Ukrainian leader: “Are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years, or are you going to agree to redraw the maps?” Zelensky thanked him before responding.

Doocy’s question outlined a position laid out by Trump in a Sunday night Truth Social post, believed to be in relation to the land concession, signalling to Zelensky that he could “end the war “almost immediately” or choose to keep fighting.

For Russian President Vladimir Putin a key aim for any peace agreement would be the handing over of the Donbas region of Ukraine, including areas not occupied by his military. Zelensky has pushed against this, hence his desire to achieve a ceasefire before negotiations take place.

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, however, the crew reflected on the events of the previous day when Scarborough seized on the framing as “the most twisted, tilted question against Ukraine.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire agreed.

SCARBOROUGH: President Zelenskyy, very diplomatic, very diplomatic, even saying, “Thank you for the question.” Jon Lemire, the question was framed – I mean, seriously, the Kremlin couldn’t have written the question better. It could have very easily been asked: ‘Is Vladimir Putin willing to continue to allow another million casualties for an invasion, an illegal invasion where he’s stolen children from the Ukrainian people?’ Instead, that was the most twisted, tilted question against Ukraine. I don’t even understand it.

LEMIRE: Yeah, the phrasing makes sending Ukraine’s soldiers to their deaths, as opposed to fighting for their nation, fighting for their independence, for their land, for their families. Yeah, there was – there were a couple of questions –

SCARBOROUGH: By the way, that would be like asking FDR after Pearl Harbor, ‘Are you really willing to allow 500,000 Americans to die?’ I mean, that’s the question. This was an invasion of their sovereign land. And you’re asking that question at the end while Ukrainian children and grandmothers are still being killed every day by Russia?

LEMIRE: And there was a lot of, sort of, eyebrow-raising questions to say the least coming from the reporters who were allowed in the Oval Office, including a few who were not in the press pool but were from pretty MAGA-friendly outlets who were allowed to get in there and ask some questions.

Watch above via MSNBC.