Morning Joe Shreds Trump’s False Obama Claims: ‘It’s Just Gross’ and ‘Rock Bottom’
Morning Joe held a marathon shredding of President Donald Trump’s remarks from Monday in which he claimed (falsely) that his predecessors did not call the families of fallen soldiers.
Trump’s comments were an attempt to defend against a question as to why he has yet to reach out to the families of four U.S. special forces who were killed in an attack by ISIS-affiliated militants in Niger.
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski kicked things off by voicing her disgust with Trump making the issue of the four deaths of U.S. soldiers about himself, remarking “it’s just gross.”
“It’s offensive enough,” co-host Joe Scarborough said. “And then he brings up his petty, long-running, insecure, pathetic, sad, weak dispute with the 44th president of the United States.”
“This is rock bottom, when he speaks like this, about our heroes,” Brzezinski added.
Later in the segment, Scarborough summarized his thoughts on Trump’s remarks: “He made the deaths of our American heroes about himself having to make a tough phone call and then attacked Barack Obama and his other predecessors for not doing it.”
“Can you imagine a president in recent memory in our lifetimes that would ever complain about making those phone calls?” co-host Mika Brzezinski asked.
The Morning Joe panel continued to lament Trump’s comments, calling them “demonstrably false,” “beyond the pale” and “a new low.”
“What good, honest person, with a sense of duty and honor to this country, what person who loves America would say something like that?” Brzezinski said. “Let’s just say it. There’s nothing good about it, it’s horrible — not a good person.”
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol added that none of the conservative policy wins under the Trump administration are worth having Trump in office, and called on Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell to stand up and say something.
“It really is terrible — the degradation of our public life, of the civic discourse that’s happening in this presidency, none of the little policy victories or even the bigger policy victories, is worth it,” he said.
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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