MSNBC Host Gets Stunned Laugh From First Lady Biden By Asking About ‘Biden Crime Family’ Attacks — And ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski got a stunned laugh from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden by asking about “Trump Republicans” attacking “The Biden crime family” — and asked about the MAGA “Let’s Go, Brandon!” rallying cry.
For the uninitiated, the “Let’s go Brandon!” trend originated when some NASCAR fans at Talladega chanted “Fuck Joe Biden” as race winner Brandon Brown gave a post-race interview, the reporter mistook the chant as a show of support for Brown.
That moment has made “Let’s go Brandon!” a stand-in for the more profane version with opponents of President Joe Biden.
On Thursday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Brzezinski aired her exclusive interview with the first lady, and Jill Biden did not shy away from the “scary” subject of her husband’s political opposition.
While the First Lady laughed off the attacks, she expressed astonishment at the lionization of insurrectionists — and said it “makes me want to be in the fight even more”:
BRZEZINSKI: What do you think when you hear Trump Republicans calling you the Biden crime family or —
(LAUGHTER)
BRZEZINSKI: I have one congresswoman: The Biden crime family sold out America, Marjorie Taylor Greene. He’s a liar. He’s mentally incompetent.
And let’s not even talk about what “Let’s go, Brandon” means, but you have U.S. senators holding signs that say that. Biden —
(CROSSTALK)
BIDEN: It’s hard to realize our country, isn’t it? I mean, to look at it, what we used to have, and what the other side, the extremists have turned this country into.
I mean, we would never see things like that, say, 10 years ago.
BRZEZINSKI: This has got to be so different than any races that you and your husband have run.
BIDEN: It is, yes. Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: A little scary?
BIDEN: It is a little scary. And I think it’s — but I — I think it’s not just for me and for Joe, but just to see what happened.
I mean, look at the insurrection that took place. I mean, it’s just so hard to believe that the United States of America witnessed an insurrection. I think Americans were just stunned by that.
BRZEZINSKI: I guess they’re being called by the front-runner, Republican front-runner, hostages. Those who were —
BIDEN: Or patriots, you know, as he — he doesn’t call them what they were, insurrectionists, dangerous extremists.
BRZEZINSKI: And you still want to be in the fight?
BIDEN: Oh, that makes me want to be in the fight even more, because we have to win. We must win. We cannot let go of our democracy.
BRZEZINSKI: And if you don’t?
BIDEN: I don’t know.
(LAUGHTER)
BRZEZINSKI: Can’t even think about it?
BIDEN: No, I can’t think about it, yes.
Watch above via MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
