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Morning Joe dumps on 'hateful' Trump for leaving his 'stain' on Memorial Day
May 30, 2023 7:05AM ET
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Donald Trump's "hateful" Memorial Day message comparing himself to slain service members.
The "Morning Joe" host ranked the Truth Social post among the former president's worst holiday statements, saying Trump went out of his way to issue the most "disrespectful" message possible.
"President [Joe] Biden's most likely 2024 opponent, Donald Trump, had a less reflective Memorial Day message," said co-host Mika Brzezinski. "On his social media website, the former president compared himself to the country's fallen heroes, wishing a happy Memorial Day to, quote, 'those in line of a very different but equally dangerous fire stopping the threats of terrorists, misfits and lunatic thugs who are working feverishly from within to overturn and destroy our once great country.'"
"It's brutal, Joe," Brzezinski added. "I mean, I don't even know what to say. I guess it's a step up from what he said in the past about our fallen heroes."
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Scarborough said Trump had a well documented history of insulting slain services members, questioning why they had sacrificed their lives for the country.
"I mean, what he said in the past, I mean, you look at The Atlantic article in 2020, he basically called men and women who gave their all 'suckers,'" Scarbrough said. "It's always been his attitude about it. He has contempt for those who would sacrifice for their country. This is, again, we're not surprised by what Donald Trump says. I will say, I'm surprised there's still such a large number of Americans, at least telling pollsters, that they'd still support this man. Whether it's Memorial Day, Mothers Day, the Fourth of July, whatever it is, he tries to be as hateful and disrespectful as possible."
"Again, I'm not, you know, I'm not catastrophizing here," he added. "He just, I was saying earlier, there were Republicans who were grown-ups. Most would never do something like this, yet the person that runs the party right now is the most hateful, has been the most hateful, and even stains days like Memorial Day, where we should stay focused on those men and women who gave their all in battle and across the world so we could be free."
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