MSNBC’s Morning Joe wrecks ‘graceless and tacky’ Kavanaugh swearing-in: 'Absolutely no class'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was disgusted by the partisan gloating at Brett Kavanaugh's "tacky" swearing-in ceremony.

The "Morning Joe" host agreed that President Donald Trump struck an "incredibly strange and graceless" tone at the White House ceremony, and he's not sure Kavanaugh can be trusted after his contentious confirmation hearings.

"I have to say, it's really hard to figure out which Brett Kavanaugh to believe," Scarborough said. "Do you believe the one in 2015 that was talking like that? Do you believe the one in 2018 that sounded like the right wing's version of Hillary Clinton, when he talked about right-wing conspiracy, but this time Brett Kavanaugh is talking about a left-wing conspiracy?"

He said Kavanaugh was inappropriately partisan at the ceremony.

"What about last night, when Brett Kavanaugh decided to call out every single Republican senator that was responsible for him getting through the process, getting through the Judiciary Committee?" Scarborough said. "Was there a time since the man is on the Supreme Court for life, to figure out a way to extend an olive branch? Of course there was."

"But this is a graceless, tacky, Trump era that Republicans believe, like Lindsey Graham that the way that you win is by being graceless, by showing absolutely no class, by refusing to turn the other cheek, and to ram victories down your opponent's throats," he added.

He said the midterm elections were a referendum on the Trump era so far, and he challenged Democratic voters to step up and stop him.

"We will see in less than a month whether voters will reward them for that," Scarborough said. "That all really depends not on the Republicans that come out, but the Democrats who decide to stay home."

Scarborough said the choice couldn't be more clear.

"If after two years of this Democrats still decide to stay home, if after two years of this, women decide to stay home, if after two years of this, after Charlottesville, after everything else, black voters decide to stay home, if after two years of being called breeders and rapists, Mexicans and -- Mexican Aamerican and other Hispanic-Americans decide to stay home, well, then they and we get the government that we deserve," he said.