Joe Scarborough Laughs at ‘Lunacy’ of Trump Claiming Debate Victory — Airs Supercut of Him Promoting Bizarre Poll Results

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist had quite a laugh over former President Donald Trump claiming victory after this week’s presidential debate.

After Trump’s disastrous debate performance, the ex-president took to the spin room, where he not only spun his loss as a victory but also brought receipts—imaginary ones, but receipts! In a montage produced by MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Trump is seen spouting some very lopsided “polls” that paint him as the winner of his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Following the montage, Scarborough and Geist lit into Trump:

Scarborough: And there and there you have it, Willie. The race is over. 86 to 3! He tells one person who responds with, “Wow, you won 86 to 3! Did you, Comrade Stalin? Oh, all the Soviet people must love you. Really love you!” I mean, that’s part of the — well, that’s not part of the problem. I mean, it’s a huge problem. He lives in an alternate reality, and his handlers thought that they could somehow manage that going into the debate. And Republicans, mainstream Republicans that insist on staying with this man, regardless of the craziness, the lunacy, all the losses. You know, they always thought they could control him, they could manage him. He can’t be managed. And he lives in an alternate reality, at least politically.

Geist: Yeah. When your debate performance is an unmitigated disaster, not by the account of you and me, but by the account of Republicans, by the account of his advisers talking privately now to the press about how bad it was. There has been this fallacy, this fantasy, this charade, that if we can just get Donald Trump to settle in, prepare and focus on policy, he’s going to have a great night. It ain’t happening. It’s never happened, since the day he stepped onto the scene. I don’t know why we keep trying to entertain that idea. He is who he is. It was on full display for an hour and a half, two nights ago. And he got whipped, frankly. And so we have to go out and just make up polls.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.