Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to get rid of “Morning Joe” anytime soon. Despite he’s most shameless attempts, host Joe Scarborough does not appear likely to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Much has been written about the more uncomfortably cozy relationship between the MSNBC host and the “presumptive” Republican presidential nominee, on-air and off.
“Mika and I certainly understand you’re really angry, because we called this first,” Scarborough smugly stated in March, running a montage of his past vaguely prescient remarks lauding the former reality TV star’s political skills.
“We saw it coming,” his co-host Mika Brezenski recently echoed. “We got it right.”
“Everybody else was stupid, and they were wrong every single day. We were right,” Scarborough, the fleece aficionado, asserted.
But after it had become absolutely evident that Trump would, in fact, be the Republican presidential nominee, after his last remaining rivals lost in Indiana on Tuesday, Scarborough took on a more reserved tone about Trump’s impending candidacy.
“I was surprised and disappointed yesterday, [that] he stuck by the Muslim ban,” Scarborough said on MSNBC Thursday. “That’s a loser — it’s a loser with the majority of Americans, and you’ve got Republicans like me. I just — I’m not going to vote for him.”
This pledge to suddenly abandon his preferred presidential candidate coming the same morning guest and Hollywood director Rob Reiner chewed out the entire “Morning Joe” crew for failing to hold Trump accountable during their fawning coverage.
“We have to ask those tough second, third and fourth tier questions,” the comedian insisted of the hosts, pointing out that that their three hour political gabfest is “a talk show” and “not hard news.”
“The show part of it is getting bigger and bigger — where show business and news have blurred,” Reiner argued.
On Friday, Trump responded in-kind, on Twitter:
Joe Scarborough initially endorsed Jeb Bush and Jeb crashed, then John Kasich and that didn't work. Not much power or insight!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
I hear @JoeNBC of rapidly fading @Morning_Joe is pushing hard for a third party candidate to run. This will guarantee a Crooked Hillary win.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2016
Scarborough wasted little time tweeting out a frantic defense of his show:
You heard wrong, cowboy. We talk about scenarios. Never fear. MJ is going to beat CNN for the 7th straight year! 😳 https://t.co/DVsBHctzgd
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 6, 2016
"Rapidly fading?" Umm…we are enjoying our best ratings ever. Lots of luck, fella. https://t.co/DVsBHctzgd
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 6, 2016
