Morning Joe Goes Off on Trump For Tweeting ‘Lies’ During Barbara Bush Funeral

During the funeral service for Barbara Bush, President Donald Trump was tweeting away about Jeff Sessions and Fox News, and Morning Joe took notice.

Mike Barnicle called attention to a viral photo of George H.W. Bush, the Obamas, the Clintons, and Melania Trump, and said that we ought to “frame that picture in our minds.”

“That’s the America that we can get back,” he said. “And that’s the America that the President of the United States denigrated Saturday during a funeral service with his tweets, many of which were outright lies.”

“Let’s be honest, he does it every day. He does it every day, but it was especially insulting to the United States of America on Saturday,” Mika Brzezinski added.

“You know, it’s just painful actually in some ways and especially on Saturday as the world said good-bye to Barbara Bush.”

Noting that Trump was a big Clinton supporter before he turned to birtherism and fear-mongering, Joe Scarborough added that the GOP will have some splainin’ to do when Trump’s time is up.

“We look at that picture and we think we will never get back to that again, but so too shall Donald Trump pass,” he said. “And when he does, the Republican Party is going to have a hell of a time explaining what they did in the four to eight years while he was there.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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