MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) trashing of the U.S. military during a Veterans Day appearance on Fox News.
The Alabama Republican told host Laura Ingraham that president-elect Donald Trump needed to rebuild and restructure the military, which he called an "absolute disaster" while also claiming that "we couldn't beat anyone right now."
"That is just the dumbest thing I've ever heard," the "Morning Joe" host said. "I can't say it's the dumbest thing I've heard in my life because I've heard a lot of dumb things coming out of Washington, D.C., before, but our military is stronger, relative to the rest of the world, than any time since World War II."
"When I talk to foreign leaders, when I talk to defense officials in other countries, when I talk to ambassadors from other countries, they will be the first to say that the United States is feared," Scarborough added, "Our military is feared around the world because of our massive, massive military advantage and our massive technological advantage and our massive advantage, as far as the men and women who wear the uniform. I have no idea why anybody would be disrespectful of our men and women in uniform on Veterans Day in any case. but especially in this case when our military is as powerful as it is."
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Washington Post columnist David Ignatius agreed, saying the GOP senator who led a months-long blockade of military promotions to protest the Pentagon's abortion policy was simply wrong.
"On Veterans Day, it is a perfect time to remember just how overwhelmingly dominant the U.S. military is around the world," Ignatius said. "I travel often with them, I have a chance to see close up the extraordinary level of training, of command and control. It's a military struggling to adapt to the most modern technologies but beginning that process, and I hope making some advances."
"I'll just make one point about the new announcements that we have coming out today on Veterans Day for the Trump national security cabinet," Ignatius added. "These are people who know the military well and have deep confidence in it, and if one of the fears that people had the last couple of weeks was Trump might radically disrupt the military, might undermine the command and control structure the way he tried to do at the end of his first term, I think those fears ought to be lessened. Mike Waltz is a serious committed, widely respected, former special operations command officer. Marco Rubio has worked on the intelligence committee closely with the chairman, the Democrat Mark Warner, for years. These are people who are not going to go out hammering and attack the basic institutions that keep our country safe."
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