Foreign countries 'cannot believe what we are doing to ourselves': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted president Donald Trump for eroding American advantages as he pushes through unpopular and legally questionable policies.

China has been working to build new trade relationships with nations that Trump has slapped with massive tariffs, as foreign universities are recruiting U.S. researchers who have lost jobs thanks to Elon Musk's funding cuts, and the "Morning Joe" host weighed in on the issue from a trip to the United Kingdom.

"If I could if I could sum up everything I learned yesterday, three months after I was here, and I've talked about it on the show a good bit," Scarborough said. "But three months, after all I heard in Britain and Europe was about America's supremacy, economic supremacy, and how they wanted to be more like us, and that was three months ago, four months ago in December. Things have changed so dramatically, and just as a journalist talking about China's new diplomatic and economic opportunities, what I'm hearing here is new economic opportunities for Britain and the rest of Europe, economic, diplomatic opportunities."

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The Trump administration has tried to take control of Harvard, ordering the university to eliminate its DEI programs and screen international students for ideological concerns, but the president ordered $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school after it rejected those demands as other cuts threaten research elsewhere.

"Institutions here, whether you're talking about Cambridge, Oxford, all across Europe, they can't believe their luck," Scarborough said. "They can't believe that America is dumb enough to cut funding to [the National Institutes of Health], America is dumb enough to cut funding [research and development] funding. They're dumb enough to chase off the best and the brightest students, and they're getting they're getting those students coming here and, actually, so Britain and a Europe that three or four months ago said we're never going to catch up with America, just said, my God, they're actually slowing down and going to let us catch up."

"That Harvard story, they think they're owning Harvard, they think they're owning Columbia, they think they're owning these schools," Scarborough added, "and I mean, they've said, all right, we're going to destroy, we want to destroy one of these big schools. All they're doing by cutting those grants is they're helping China, they're helping the EU, they're helping Britain. They're helping economic competitors and allies by basically saying, yeah, you know what? We're not interested in this anymore, we're we're going after an ideological agenda, and you can have the best and brightest minds in tech, you can have the best and brightest minds in AI, you can have the best and brightest minds and bio research. It's really, again, they cannot believe what we are doing to ourselves."

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