The panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe were no happier than their colleagues at TODAY about Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory response to the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub over the weekend.
Trump insisted to TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie that he was merely calling attention to the congratulations he had received after the terror attack for his perspicuity in having predicted it when he tweeted the following:
Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016
What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning. Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban. Must be tough
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016
But the panelists on Morning Joe were no more convinced by that logic than Guthrie had been earlier. The New York Times’ Frank Bruni said that “everything about [Trump’s] reaction was very small and very unhelpful” — including, presumably, blaming the attack on political correctness — and accused the presumptive GOP nominee of “taking a victory lap over fifty bodies.”
Bruni also echoed Guthrie’s questions about the easy availability of assault rifles with high capacity clips — a question that clearly disturbed co-host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough.
Watch the entire segment below via MSNBC.
