'He doesn't look right': Morning Joe raises new alarms about Trump's behavior
December 04, 2023
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised alarms about Donald Trump's health and behavior as he seeks a second term as president.
The "Morning Joe" host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg discussed Trump's autocratic plans for another term in the White House, and they agreed that threat to democracy had not been covered properly.
"Why is it that when Hillary Clinton says the word 'deplorable' in a speech, it is banner headlines for a month, it seems," Scarborough said. "When Donald Trump uses Nazi terminology to degrade human beings, uses 'vermin,' you hardly hear about it. Why is that?"
"I think it is normalization," Goldberg said. "I think it's this process where, one of the great attributes of human beings is we can get used to anything, right? So we got used to this, and we just accepted it as background noise. I mean, he does have these -- this particular superpower, in that he goes further than anybody in rhetoric, and we kind of go, 'Yeah, it's just Donald Trump.' We have to reverse that and just say, 'No, no, no, no, no – this is a former president of the United States.' If Barack Obama, if George W. Bush said the things, as a former president, not running again, that Donald Trump said, we'd have huge stories about, 'Former president loses mind,' right? Meanwhile, Donald Trump is the putative nominee for the presidency, and here we are. We act like it's normal."
"That's why this issue is so important," agreed co-host Mika Brzezinski. "It is normalization and we need to reverse that, because normalization is exactly how it starts, and it is dangerous."
"If Barack Obama had said a general should have been executed, how long would that -- how long?" Scarborough added. "How long would that be banner headlines on the front pages? There is something wrong with Donald Trump. I'm serious, he doesn't look right up on stage, he doesn't. You look at him – we've known him."
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