Morning Joe busts 'petulant brat' Trump for lying and hurling taunts at the border

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Donald Trump for hurling childish taunts and lying about his own record on immigration during a visit to the border.

President Joe Biden and Trump each delivered remarks on immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, and while the current president called for bipartisan cooperation to address the issue, the "Morning Joe" host highlighted the ex-president's coarse, incoherent and insulting statements read off a printout.

"First of all, Donald Trump can't even speak in complete sentences," Scarborough said. "He's throwing out taunts about governors. again, like he is a child, like he is a 5-year-old. I guess, I don't know, people that vote for him like petulant little brats. I don't know why. They don't let their kids act like petulant little brat, but maybe they think they want a president who's a petulant little brat."

"Then he says things were better in 2020 than 2016," Scarborough added. "As we said, it is a complete lie. Illegal border crossings were at a 50-year low under Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2016. When Donald Trump got into office, that's when the border crisis really exploded."

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Co-host Willie Geist agreed, saying the former president was no longer an outsider but had an administrative record of his own to compare to Biden – and he said the numbers undercut his claims.

"Donald Trump is no longer a blank slate," Geist said. "This is not 2016. If there is a crisis at the border, he had four years as president to do something about it. He controlled Washington for the first two years, both houses of Congress – didn't build the wall he promised, didn't do any of these things, which speaks to the idea that, of course, he wants to keep this issue alive, wants to keep it up in the air."

"That is why he has directed his lieutenants in the House of Representatives not to sign onto this bipartisan legislation," Geist added. "If they do, it gets at the problem. It begins to resolve, it gets better. He believes that works in the favor of Joe Biden. We saw it again [Thursday], the contrasting styles. One man who now actually wants to work with Republicans to get something done on the border."

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