'No way!' Morning Joe hoots with laughter as Trump recounts 'Valley Girl' Putin chat

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hooted with laughter at Donald Trump's account of a purported conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin that sounded more like the "Saturday Night Live" characters Wayne and Garth.

The former president sat down for a glitch-plagued conversation with X owner Elon Musk Monday night, and Trump claimed that he cautioned Putin against invading Ukraine — which led to an odd rehash of their conversation.

"It's just one of those things, and we would talk a lot about Ukraine," Trump said. "It was the apple of his eye, but I said, 'Don't ever do it, don't ever do — you can't do it, Vladimir. You do it, it's going to be a bad day. You cannot do it.' I told him things what I'd do and he said, 'No way,' and I said, 'Way.'"

Scarborough and "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist cracked up, comparing their supposed comments to the 1982 novelty hit "Valley Girl."

"Come on!" Scarborough said.

"A little 'Valley Girl' diplomacy," Geist added. "Wow."

"Who was that, Zappa – which Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa?" Scarborough said. "'Valley Girl'? Channeling Moon Unit there, pretty awesome. 'No way!'"

"He's so proud of his relationship with Vladimir Putin, just won't come off that position," Geist added. "He loves the guy."

The Trump-Musk conversation was hosted on Spaces, the social network's streaming platform, but technical issues prevented many users from accessing the content at all and limited the live portion to audio only, although video released later revealed Trump sitting at a table at Mar-a-Lago in front of a painting of himself in a tennis sweater.

"How could you imagine that people wouldn't resonate to that picture of that dark room with Trump's hair and that weird portrait in the tennis outfit in the background which is just -- you talk about dystopic, I don't see how that's not turning voters on," said Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.

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"It's driving Trump crazy. He's searching and searching and trying to find a way into the conversation because he's just sort of babbling into the void. In a lot of instances and, you know, we've seen the recent times when he goes out in public and just says nonsensical and ridiculous and worrisome things, worrisome about his own mental health. I guess if you want to look at it, in political terms, maybe he was trying to get back the white dude vote, or to shore it up by doing this thing with Elon Musk, figuring that that was the demographic he was going to reach."

"Boy, you know, if you sort of babble for two hours into the void, you know, does it actually make a sound?" Robinson added. "I'm not convinced that it did."

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