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Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) rained ridicule down on Donald Trump on Friday morning while reacting to a report that the former president spent time with GOP lawmakers on Thursday obsessing over pop star Taylor Swift.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill laughed at Trump and the assembled GOP lawmakers who were seen in a clip clapping like trained seals for the now-convicted felon who will likely be the Republican party's presidential nominee in November.

McCaskill took particular delight that, at a time when Republicans should be concerned with winning back the White House, Trump seems obsessed with wishing Swift liked him.

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Speaking with the hosts, she laughed as she said, "Donald Trump got in front of members of Congress and wanted to talk about whether Taylor Swift was going to endorse him. I mean, that's just weird! I mean, that is a scrambled brain."

"First of all , under no set of circumstances is Taylor Swift ever going to endorse Donald Trump ever!" she continued echoing Swift's hit, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" that contains the line, "But we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together. Like, ever."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hammered right-wing media for spreading misleading photos and video that falsely appear to show president Joe Biden wandering away from a group of world leaders.

A social media account managed by Donald Trump campaign shared a clip that appeared to show the president doddering off from the gathering at the G7 summit Thursday before the Italian prime minister alerts him to a group photo, and the New York Post and other outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch seized on the video to suggest Biden was too old and infirm to be re-elected.

On the heels of Donald Trump's attack on Milwaukee as a "horrible city" just weeks before the Republican National Convention will be held there, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough suggested that the former president's inner circle would prefer he not speak off the cuff because he's a "human gaffe machine."

MSNBC "Way Too Early" host Jonathan Lemire kicked off the discussion by telling the "Morning Joe" panel, "This is an odd strategy, to attack the biggest city in the largest battleground state in this election. I wonder what he has in store for Philadelphia, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit — just go after all of them."

"This is what the Biden campaign has been looking for: Trump out of the courtroom, back on the trail, making news, and making news that hurts him. This was an own goal, if you will, yesterday in D.C." he added.

"Well, and this is why, of course, the Trump campaign wanted Donald Trump to stay in the courthouse," host Scarborough remarked. "They didn't want him on the campaign trail. They don't want him on Capitol Hill because he says really stupid things. He is a human gaffe machine."

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MSNBC's Willie Geist compared Republican lawmakers to giddy Taylor Swift fans after they met with Donald Trump on Capitol Hill.

The presumptive GOP nominee returned to the Capitol for the first time since inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, and congressional Republicans lavished praise on him to such a degree – "he's electric," said one – that the co-hosts of "Morning Joe" cringed with second-hand embarrassment.

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," kicked off Friday morning by mocking Donald Trump for calling Milwaukee — the host city for the Republican National Convention where he is expected to be anointed as the 2024 GOP presidential candidate — a "horrible city" when addressing lawmakers on Thursday.

And they did it while downing Milwaukee's Best Ice beer.

Cracking open the tallboys, Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough laughed at the GOP trying to clean up the former president's latest "gaffe" mess which has enraged the state of Wisconsin, a pivotal state in the 2024 election.

With Brzezinski grimacing while drinking her beer, Scarborough explained, "They can try to spin it. First, they lied because, of course, they're Trump Republicans, saying, ''Oh, he never said that.' And his spokesperson: 'Oh, that's BS, Trump never said that. Then, of course, we find out later — Mika, you hate beer, you don't have to pretend anymore — and then later, they admitted that he said it and were spinning the rest of the day."

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"The fact is, let's just say what it is: Donald Trump trashed the most important city in the upcoming 2024 election. You know why? Because he's Donald Trump," he continued.

Conservative and Milwaukee resident Charlie Sykes contributed, "I mean, this is a farce inside of a fiasco. It was really interesting watching local Republicans struggling to get their stories straight after Donald Trump dumps on Milwaukee again."

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Former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell on Friday offered a blunt assessment of Trump supporters' goals for trying to put him back into the White House in the 2024 presidential election.

Appearing on CNN Friday, Longwell slammed Republican politicians for abasing themselves before the former president on Tuesday, but then suggested that the ultimate blame for this rests upon the GOP primary electorate.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) cast shame on Republican members of Congress after they "hung out with a felon" by meeting with Donald Trump.

During a Thursday House Judiciary Committee hearing, Swalwell alluded to Trump's visit with Republican lawmakers earlier in the day. The hearing sought to examine Trump's hush money conviction in New York.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to maintain the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone and the co-hosts of "The View" were shocked to hear that it was a unanimous decision.

All justices agreed that the doctors complaining about the drug didn't have standing to bring the case because they didn't use the drug in their practices and were instead only basing the case on their own personal objections.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) at a hearing on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

Moments after the hearing got underway on Thursday, Chairman Jordan called on Gaetz to question witnesses for five minutes. However, Gaetz offered a motion to subpoena Bragg and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly praised Hannibal Lecter, a fictional cannibal, at a meeting with Republican lawmakers Wednesday.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to the House Republican caucus, according to CNN.