Mika Brzezinski Honors George H. W. Bush’s Legacy By Absolutely Tearing Into Trump’s Two Years of ‘Deviancy’

Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski simultaneously honored the life and service of President George H. W. Bush Monday morning and offered a scathing rebuke of the current White House occupant President Donald Trump.

It is no surprise that a frequent Trump critic would criticize Trump. Some, however, may take issue with her use of the passing of the 41st President as a time to politically bash the current sitting president as untoward and ill-befitting the “bipartisan good feeling” that Bush’s passing has rekindled, as Ms. Brzesinski opened her essay.

You can watch the video above, courtesy of MSNBC, read the full transcript of her essay is below:

It’s hard not to recognize that the passing of George H.W. Bush has rekindled bipartisan good feeling on editorial pages and just about anywhere else that politics is spoken.

President Bush’s death also has done what many previously believed was impossible. It’s inspired the current occupant of the White House to briefly behave in a way that’s presidential. With gracious words and a declaration of an extended period of national mourning.

But what becomes undeniably obvious is that stark contrast between these two men.

Bush served in the military, treated people with respect and dignity and put country ahead of party and self time and time again over his half century in public service.

Over the last two years deviancy has continued being defined down by this current president, his cronies, his supporters, who love telling reporters that they don’t care how deviant his behavior becomes.

Let’s see what happens at Wednesday’s memorial service. My prediction is that Trump fakes more respect for a family whose unprecedented history of public service has repeatedly belittled. Then he goes back to making a mockery of the very office George Bush and this nation long revered.

Just as President Bush’s character was set even during his earliest days at Andover with the stories that you all have told, Donald Trump remains the man, think about this, the man he was while avoiding the draft and then telling Howard Stern on the radio that sleeping around with women in New York City while avoiding sexual diseases was his own personal Vietnam. He said that.

As is always the case, the presidency does not shape character. It reveals it in a raw fashion. That is why we celebrate George H.W. Bush’s legacy and fear the next two years of Mr. Trump’s wild White House ride.