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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe” that if elected, former President Donald Trump will become an “autocrat” who will randomly jail people and take television stations off the air. Scarborough said, “This is one of the things that I’ve just not understood, and we’ve said it here. We all talk about saving democracy and how democracy is threatened by a man who said he was going to terminate the Constitution, a man who said he was going to be a dictator on day one, a man who said he was going to kill his political enemies with...

For my sins, over the years I've suffered through countless Joe Scarborough rants. In recent times, Donald Trump has, of course, been Scarborough's favorite target. But for sheer anger and vitriol, it would be hard to match Scarborough's tirade against Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of today's Morning Joe. Scarborough attacked Netanyahu for purposes of defending Chuck Schumer's shocking speech on the Senate floor yesterday, calling for regime change in Israel and the ejection of Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister. Scarborough had the chutzpah to depict himself as the virtual True Defender of Israel, a veritable modern-day Judah Maccabee. He...

Joe Scarborough says this is the "best Biden ever"—and "f-you" if you don't believe it.At the end of his mind-boggling rant on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough swore: "if it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it." The only thing that would be worse than Scarborough lying about Biden's mental state, would be if . . . he was actually telling the truth. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Today's Morning Joe dropped a MOAB—Mother of All Bombshells. And yet it caused hardly a ripple on the set. NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard blithely reported this: "If the Supreme Court were to affirm the Colorado Supreme Court's decision, and disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado, that'll have a far-reaching impact, likely removing him from the ballot in all 50 states. "And of course, the concern of the Republican Party is the potential nullification of Republican electorates' votes as they're selecting their presidential nominee." Wait a second! The concern about nullifying the votes of millions of Americans would...

Who got to Joe Scarborough?/The question arises in light of Scarborough's stunning flip-flop over the Colorado Supreme Court decision kicking Donald Trump off the ballot. Yesterday, we caught Scarborough expressing surprising skepticism over the court's ruling. Scarborough dubiously asked whether the decision should be made by "people on cable news," or by state judges "randomly" deciding. Scarborough suggested that a prerequisite to barring Trump should be a conviction for insurrection in a D.C. court. What a difference a day makes! Twenty-four hours later, there was Scarborough this morning, praising the Colorado decision to the heavens as "the most pro-democratic thing...

Director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, John Della Volpe, joins Morning Joe to discuss new polling that shows fewer younger Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 plan to vote in the 2024 election...

Joe Scarborough has made it a habit to mock House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer as a comical hillbilly, like the goofball sheriff from The Dukes of Hazzard. He suggested in September that Arnold the Pig from Green Acres could do a better job in Congress than Comer. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough—raised in the Florida panhandle and educated at the University of Alabama—was back attacking Comer and his probe of the Biden family influence-peddling business, claiming they have no evidence of wrongdoing: "Well, we ain't really got nuthin' but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog."Later, Scarborough piled on...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rebuked House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republicans who seem to "hate" American values.Video has surfaced of the Louisiana Republican taking part in a prayer call early last month with far-right Pastor Jim Garlow with the World Prayer Network, and the "Morning Joe" host was troubled that Johnson suggested the nation deserved God's wrath for its "dark and depraved" culture.

Muy Macho Joe Scarborough thinks he is one tough hombre. And Scarborough's manly uber-manliness isn't confined to the serene byways of 30 Rock. To the contrary, Scarborough's machismo extends, quite literally, to the halls of the Capitol! As we noted last year, Scarborough fantasized about beating up a Capitol tourist taking photos somewhere Joe didn't like, making him "eat his camera." Tough stuff! The kind of thing Scarborough no doubt learned while summering on the hardscrabble streets of Nantucket. So it was paradoxical, to say the least, to find Scarborough clutching his pearls this morning over others engaging in tough...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on his show “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump was using rhetoric that was the same as “Mussolini and other fascists from the past.” During a weekend rally, Trump said, “In honor of our great Veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. That lie, steal, and cheat on elections.” Scarborough said, “I think he should probably give some pay some royalties to Mussolini’s family trust because when he starts...

So much of the focus nowadays is on Joe Biden's mental impairment and shaky memory. But perhaps Joe Scarborough should have his own noggin checked out. Because he seemed to have suffered a stunning memory lapse on today's Morning Joe. Scarborough spent the first segment whistling past the graveyard of the disastrous Washington Post/ABC News poll showing Biden losing by nine points to Trump, and then went on to trash the "fools" who thought they were "truth tellers" suggesting doom for Biden in 2020 and 2022. Scarborough somehow forgot that among those people writing off Biden was . . ....

As we've documented over the years, Joe Scarborough has a bad habit of riding a favorite word or phrase [one that invariably insults a Republican] into the ground. Scarborough's all-time favorite is, of course, "fascist," which he employs at every opportunity to denounce Donald Trump. Here's just one example, where the f-word was used 19 times in one segment! Scarborough mounted his hobby horse yet again on today's Morning Joe. This time, it was to trumpet an unusually nasty turn of phrase that a Democrat leader deployed against congressional Republicans. Today's Morning Joe opened with a clip of Democrat House...

On Friday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump’s motive for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort was “all about money.” Scarborough said, “We’ve said from the beginning, and today’s the eighth anniversary, people tell us of Donald Trump coming down the escalator. We’ve said from the beginning, this is all about money.” He added, “If you’re trying to figure out Donald Trump’s motive, whatever it is we’ve been saying for eight years, it’s all about money. So I’m not I’m like, we have absolutely no evidence that he was selling this information to...

On Friday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough cried crocodile tears, breaking out a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger shtick. Scarborough proclaimed this to be a "bleak, dark day for America," and "something I feared for a long time."Riiight. Scarborough was clearly aware that many wouldn't buy his crocodile tears, and he thus insisted that: "if anybody thinks I'm being glib or not completely straightforward in saying that, they don't understand." Sure. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Turns out, Joe Scarborough was referring to Donald Trump when speaking on today's Morning Joe of "the most insecure man in public life."But when it comes to overwhelming insecurity on television, Joe could just have easily been talking about himself. After all, this is the guy who:So often works into show segments the fact that he used to be in Congress that he's become a running joke. Feels the need to hog airtime and talk over panelists. Frequently mocks Republican senators for their Ivy League backgrounds, while calling himself, with false humility, a "simple country lawyer" who attended state schools...

On Friday, Russia published a list of 500 additional Americans that it has banned from entering the country. At least some of the banned people are pleased to have made the list, perhaps seeing it as something of a Red Badge of Courage. And so it was that on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough managed to mention that he was among those banned by Putin. But the oh-so-humble Scarborough didn't quite come right out and say it. Instead, Scarborough said that the list: "includ[ed] a certain morning cable-news host who goes by the name of Joe."In the unlikely event that...

oe Scarborough is angry at his fellow Biden fans who are scared by the recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showing Biden with a historically low approval rating, and losing badly to Trump in a head-to-head match-up. On Friday's Morning Joe, Scarborough lashed out at what he sees as weak-kneed Dems: "Some of the Obama people would always talk about Democratic bedwetting. Let me tell you something: all the beds in Washington, D.C. were, were, were wet after that poll came out." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for urging conservatives to donate to former President Donald Trump’s campaign following his indictment Thursday night. “I always talk about the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker approach to politics scamming people like my grandmother out of their Social Security checks, $25 here, $50 there,” Scarborough said on his morning table talk program on Friday. “I’ve got to say, that Lindsey Graham moment, he’s tearing up. Lindsey knows what a bad man Donald Trump is. Lindsey is one who said if we make him our nominee, he’ll destroy the Republican Party, and...

Muy Macho Joe Scarborough swaggered about his manhood again on today's Morning Joe. Scarborough mocked men who fire AR-15s at gun ranges "to feel like real men, cause they obviously don't in real life."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday on his show “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump was “gross” for attacking President Joe Biden and mentioning Trump water during his visit to East Palestine after a train derailment that caused hazardous materials to leak into the environment. Scarborough said, “The guy is so gross, he really is, talking about Trump water, branded Trump water. By the way, he’s such a hypocrite, too, talking about attacking Joe Biden while Joe Biden is going, you know, risking his life fighting for western democracy, something he doesn’t give a damn about. The guy who...