Morning Joe Rails Against Trump’s Nashville Rally: ‘So Profoundly Frigging Stupid’

Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist couldn’t help but notice — as part of a Morning Joe breakdown of Tuesday night’s President Donald Trump rally in Nashville, TN — that the president paused for boos at the mention of certain names, such as former President George W. Bush. And the boos never came.

“The schtick is growing old,” Scarborough observed. “And at some point, he’s going to mention George W. Bush’s name, and people are going to start applauding. He’s going to mention George H.W. Bush‘s name and people are going to start standing up.”

“Hopefully he’ll never mention George Herbert Walker Bush’s name,” said Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. “Because, again, he’s not worthy enough to mention that great man’s name out loud. No person so unworthy would ever be called upon to say anything about a man so worthy”

Schmidt, the former presidential campaign manager for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), proceeded to absolutely lace into Trump for his remarks at the rally on Tuesday.

“We have many people in harm’s way. In the 17th year of war, in combat right now,” Schmidt said. “And you watch this: it’s so profoundly frigging stupid there’s not a word for it. Stupid.”

He added, “What a tragedy this is for a generation of kids who will have lost in their experiential memory that Barack Obama, or George W. Bush, or — people my age — Ronald Reagan, we got a generation of kids imprinting ‘This is what the president of the United States is.’ It’s a tragedy.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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