Joe Scarborough Slams Table in Fury at Millionaires Gaslighting ‘Working Americans’ By Downplaying Economy

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took aim at “billionaire” Trump administration officials and “millionaire” media “talking heads” on “other networks” Monday, calling them out for gaslighting “working Americans” into accepting a self-inflicted economic crisis.

“This was on the front page of Sunday Opinion, New York Times. And this pretty much sums it up. The world wakes up to a new global reality,” Scarborough began, holding up the paper. “The economy is deflating.”

From there, he launched into a stinging critique of the economic turmoil triggered by the Trump administration’s trade war and tariffs.

“Banks and of course, Wall Street — big losers,” he said, citing the plunge in oil prices and global markets. “We’re having recessions on every front.”

But Scarborough reserved his sharpest criticism for the disconnect between the administration, media commentary, and the lived experiences of middle-class Americans.

I just want to say, as we go through the next four hours, I think it’s important. We see here that banks and, of course, Wall Street—big losers, down below, you see one of the reasons, maybe, that Ted Cruz was talking about a bloodletting is because oil right now is just collapsing. It’s driving — it’s being driven down toward 60.

And so, we’re having recessions on every front. But I just—as we go through this and we talk about it—we’re gonna be talking a lot about Wall Street. We’re going to be talking about global markets. I just want you to realize that this weekend, and today—this weekend—what you saw and what you’re going to see today is you’re going to see billionaires that work in the administration talking on networks that are pretending like there’s nothing to see here. They’re going to be talking to hosts who are millionaires, who are going to be telling middle-class and working-class Americans—small business owners, entrepreneurs, people that have spent their entire lives building up their family restaurants or their family businesses or their family — I don’t know — import-export businesses. They’re going to tell them: “Don’t worry. Nothing to worry about. This had to be done.”

And it’s just important that you remember: you’re looking at everybody on Wall Street, looking at screens like this, small business people, right? Family business owners. Working-class Americans are the ones who are not going to be protected in the end. We learned this in 2008, right? How many bankers went to jail? How many traders went to jail? I think one, maybe.

So, as we talk about this—and we’re at 30,000 feet talking about the stock market and talking about banks and talking about oil and talking about all the people that are being hurt—those trickle-down effects are going to be felt by working Americans who can afford it the least.

And they’re being told by billionaires that there’s nothing to see here. They’re being told by millionaire talking heads on other networks: there’s nothing to see here. It’s a war that we had to win—no, no—let’s be very—let’s be very clear here, regardless of how you feel about tariffs, this is a self-induced war that we started. All right? This is voluntary.

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