Sen. Tim Scott's appearance with Donald Trump on Thursday when the president met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell both baffled and amused the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" over its sheer oddness.
The day after Trump's visit went south as Powell fact-checked him in front of the press, co-host Joe Scarborough and regular panelist Sam Stein cracked up over why the South Carolina Republican was next to Trump.
After an amused Stein observed that Scott was not given a hard hat for his worksite visit, like all the other participants, he laughingly added, "The best part actually came at the end when they were taking questions after this whole thing was done."
"Hold on, hold on," Scarborough interrupted before pointing out that when Trump was embarrassed by Powell after reading off wrong numbers provided by his staff, Scott was quick to jump in and add, "Those are my numbers. Those are the numbers I have too, Mr. President."
As the two laughed, Scarborough snorted, "This is Hall of Fame by Tim Scott. 'No, those are my numbers too!'"
"Okay, but there's a better Tim Scott moment," Stein chimed in. I think I'm just going to throw it out there, it comes at the end. They go in the building that they're renovating and they're talking. Who knows what they're saying? Obviously Trump's trying to get Powell to quit, because Trump doesn't want to fire him, and they come back out and they have this press conference and, at one point, Tim Scott says something like, 'God, I wish we just didn't have to talk about the cost of renovations and we could just focus on interest rates,' as if Donald Trump hasn't been pushing this entire thing as a predicate for firing Powell."
"It felt like an episode of Veep, honestly," he added.
MSNBC host Ali Vitali jumped in with, "Maybe it was a late addition, he doesn't have the hard hat, I don't know. But I mean, that was the first question that I asked David Gura on [MSNBC show] 'Way Too Early,' when we were talking about this story, is what did Tim Scott do that he had to support the president but not get a hard hat in the process?"
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