'What a joke': Claire McCaskill busts Trump over most laughable claim from big speech
The morning after Donald Trump's bombastic 99-minute State of the Union-style address, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) focused on one claim made by the president that she considered more than laughable.
With MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough calling out Trump for his litany of lies which he claimed American voters will see right through, McCaskill piled on.
"What did you make of what you saw last night as someone who has sat through a few similar addresses in that chamber?" co-host Willie Geist prompted the former lawmaker.
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"You know, I found myself longing last night for the days when Democrats were trying to decide whether they should stand up and clap or not," she replied. "It's a very different atmosphere there now and the argument among senators yesterday was whether or not to go."
"I know Americans that are really distressed by what Trump is doing, want the Democrats to do more," she continued. "I'm not sure exactly what they could have done last night that would have pleased America, and that would have maintained their ability to get that 15 percent of the vote that Trump got, that of people who don't like him."
"But I've got to tell you, and I think Joe will appreciate this, the biggest laugh line in the speech was that he was going to balance the budget," she added. "I mean, I was surprised everybody just didn't break out in raucous laughter. I mean, what a joke. There is no way this guy in any way is going to come close to balancing a budget."
"He did record deficits and debt the last time he was in office and that will happen again unless he cuts programs for his voters," she elaborated. "That's the dilemma that they face right now; they've got to cut programs, Medicaid, stuff to farmers. They've got to do all that to even fund the tax cuts that are already in place, much less the laundry list of stuff that is never going to happen that he named last night that made every Republican in the room wince when he talked about all these new tax cuts that are never going to happen."
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