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'What fresh hell?' Supercut of Trump 'blanking out' at rally stuns Morning Joe panel
March 4, 2024 8:04AM ET
Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reacted to a disturbing supercut video showing Donald Trump stumbling and fumbling through prepared remarks at weekend campaign events.
The former president spoke in North Carolina and Virginia, where he mixed up the names of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, slurred and mispronounced words, spoke gibberish and called Argentina "a great guy," and host Joe Scarborough wondered why voters were concerned about the current president's age when his Republican challenger was clearly struggling.
"The guy just kept getting confused," Scarborough said. "Look at this series of clips."
"I don't even -- what happened?" Scarborough continued, after the show's producers rolled the supercut video. "What happened there? He gets in the middle of sentences, he is reading teleprompters and his mind still blanks out -- Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama for Joe Biden, and it is just so pathetic and sad. They're going, he's doing it on purpose. No, he's not doing any of this stuff on purpose. Take the fact his mind blanks out and he looks lost."
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"Actually, it looks like a sad scene to me, to see somebody up on stage and blanking out and getting lost," Scarborough added. "First of all, he thinks the person who runs the South American country is Argentina. Argentina, great guy. Thank you for saying get rid of the Romneys in the Republican Party. That's torn out of Kari Lake's book of loserdom. That's where it'll lead you. Also, again, against this madness and, unfortunately, an old man who is losing his ability to communicate, he is praising the Taliban leader for calling him your highness."
Guest Charlie Sykes agreed, saying the comparison between Biden and Trump was stark.
"What fresh hell?" Sykes said. "Unfortunately, I'm not a psychiatrist here. What's on display is – okay, Joe Biden is old, but the other guy is deranged, demented and pathetic, not to mention dangerous. As we're sitting here talking about this, we're less than 48 hours away from that guy clinching the Republican presidential nomination. The Republicans have one last off-ramp, and they're not going to take it. They look at this guy, and this is the extraordinary thing, Republicans look at him, and I don't have to repeat all the things. Found liable for rape, facing 91 felony charges, you know, and you have this gaseous malice you get from the gaffe-filled speeches, and they're thinking, 'Yeah, we want four more years of that.'"
"If there's any upside here, Joe Biden will be able to say, 'Yeah, I'm old, I'm stiff when I walk, but this guy is also old and crazy – he's dangerous, he's incoherent,'" Sykes added. "He needs to make that point. The other maybe upside is, you know, now that there's no way of denying it'll be Donald Trump again, it'll focus the mind. I agree with you, Joe. I think Democrats need to stop the bedwetting, but they need to get out of the bed and freak out a little bit because the reality is, maybe this is what it'll take for them to realize this guy could become president of the United States. This could actually happen. Maybe we ought to treat that threat, you know, the way it ought to be treated. If it is an existential threat, let's act like it is an existential threat. Stop the bedwetting, but maybe a little freakout wouldn't be the worst thing in the world."
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