Joe Scarborough Calls ‘Bullsh*t’ on Trump’s Defense of Bloodbath Comments: ‘We’re Not STUPID’

Former President Donald Trump’s now-infamous “bloodbath” comments made at a rally on Saturday were a hot topic on MSNBC’s Morning Joe — and so was the attempt to walk them back or explain them away.

At “6:15 a.m.,” co-host Joe Scarborough was so moved as to drop the word “bullshit” on everyone’s delicate Monday morning ears while referring to the explanations given by Trump’s supporters after he said to a crowd in Dayton, Ohio:

Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.

In the aftermath if those comments, a debate emerged over headlines that suggested Trump was calling for violence and not just making a dire economic warning. Trump’s campaign tried to clean up the mess, saying that the GOP frontrunner was only talking about the economy and/or the auto industry, which was the topic he was discussing when he made those “bloodbath” comments. But Scarborough wasn’t buying it:

I’ve never really heard people discuss macroeconomics, in terms of bloodbaths. But maybe, maybe so. But let’s just say for argument’s sake. But then he says, “and that’s going to be the least of it.” “That’s going to be the least of if.” You think there’s going to be a bloodbath in the auto industry, even if you take that argument at face value, which again, given the tone of the rest of the speech, “bloodbath”? I’m not so sure he’s talking about the niceties of international trade there.

But let’s just take that argument as is. Then he goes on and he says “that’s going to be the least of it” and repeats it. “It’s going to be the least of it.” Obviously, he’s talking about a bloodbath for America. It’s laid out in the terms of it. And these idiots, on Twitter, these idiots, on cable news, these idiots on Sunday shows, “Well, President’s, you know, he was talking only about the auto industry. And this is one more–” It’s just bullshit. Let me say that at 6:15 a.m., it’s just bullshit. He knew what he was doing. We’re not stupid. Americans aren’t stupid. He was talking about a bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. And when you finish this by saying, “and that’s just going to be the least of it”… Seriously, these people may be stupid. We’re not.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.