Morning Joe shreds Trump's grim campaign message: 'Why do you hate America?'
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shredded Donald Trump's core campaign message that "America sucks."
The former president locked up the Republican nomination in the "Super Tuesday" primaries, but the "Morning Joe" host said his negative message will not resonate with voters outside his core group of hardcore supporters because it's simply not accurate.
"Despite the fact Donald Trump is doing very well last night and his side of the ring, a side that lost seven years in a row and sure to lose again this year if the Democrats and independents work hard, he kept trashing America," Scarborough said. "That is Donald Trump's message. Ronald Reagan talking about a city shining brightly on the hill, but Donald Trump's message is 'America sucks.' It was 'America sucks' before he got elected, it is America sucks now. He talked about American carnage even after he got elected. He lied about an illegal invasion when Barack Obama and Joe Biden had rates at 50-year lows of illegal border crossings."
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"Last night, again, [saying] we're a third-world country – are we really?" Scarborough added. "I didn't know third-world countries had unemployment below 4 percent two years running for the first time since the 1960s. Inflation down to 3.1 percent, historically low. You look at our GDP, compare that to the rest of the world – not third world, first world. We're doing better than all of our friends, we're doing better than all of our allies. We're doing better than all the people who consider themselves to be America's enemies. Our economy is stronger than ever relative to the rest of the world. Military stronger than ever. Culturally – and I'm not being flip when I say look at Taylor Swift, look at the fashions people are wearing. The United States, more powerful culturally, economically, more powerful militarily than ever before, and I don't know, I'm an American, so I'm kind of proud of that, and we fret about a movement that is based on the proposition that the United States of America sucks."
Despite all those leading indicators, conservative media backs up Trump's negative message by hyping random stories designed to inflame conservative bigots and downplays positive trends in Joe Biden's presidency.
"Fox News talks about how America sucks or Newsmax talks about how America sucks," Scarborough said. "They are liars, they are liars. They will find a trans athlete that competed in a race two years ago, run it all day, and forget to tell everybody that jobless rates are lower now than any time, any time since the 1960s, or they won't talk about the surveys – they'll say, 'Oh, my God, they let somebody read a poem on a ship, we're too woke to fight a war,' and then ignore one study after another after another that shows, let me say it again, the United States militarily, far from being woke and weak, more powerful relative to the rest of the world's militaries than anytime since 1945."
"That's the crazy thing – Donald Trump's campaign is based on so many lies," he added. "To me, the most offensive is that we're a third-world country, that our economy sucks, that our military sucks, that our democracy sucks, when in fact just the opposite is true. We are the greatest in the world. I'm proud to be an American. This is the greatest country in the world, and yet Donald Trump wins votes. What is wrong with you people? Why do you hate America, why do you vote for a guy that says America is terrible? That it is a third-world country? When all the evidence is to the contrary. This is why they lose every year because they run campaigns dedicated to trashing the greatest country on the face of the earth."
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