MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed supporters of former President Donald Trump after they cheered the suggestion he'd not disapprove should journalists be shot in front of him.
The "Morning Joe" host said he was appalled that MAGA fans treated the comment — that Trump wouldn't mind seeing someone "shoot through the fake news" in an attempt to target him — as an "applause line."
"They laugh and they applaud at him saying they'd have to shoot the press and 'I don't mind that,'" Scarborough said. "In 2024, that's a laugh and applause line at a political rally. Just like in 2023, Donald Trump mocking Paul Pelosi for being bludgeoned nearly to death, making jokes about that – that was applause line. I will ask the question they think is a fair question to ask, who raised these people? Because they were not raised by anybody in my neighborhoods that I grew up, any middle class neighborhoods that I grew up in. These people were not there. They were not raised, I mean, they weren't in the classes I went to growing up. In elementary or middle or high school or college, they just weren't there."
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Scarborough said he felt alienated by his fellow citizens after witnessing the exchange.
"That wasn't the America I grew up in, where people would laugh at the idea of people of the press getting shot," Scarborough added. "Or, again, laughing at the Puerto Rican joke, that Puerto Ricans are a pile of trash, or laughing at this 82-83-year-old man being bludgeoned nearly to death? That's an applause line? That's a laugh line? Again, again, who are these people? Where are they coming from? Who raised them? How did Donald Trump twist their point of view so much in nine years that the brutalization of an 83-year-old man is something to laugh about? Or the shooting of press members is an applause line?"
Journalists who cover Trump rallies have said threats against them have gotten worse in the closing weeks of the campaign, said Jonathan Lemire.
"As each rally goes on, particularly last night in Georgia, the threats from the crowd to the press there in the arena only growing," Lemire said.
"They're concerned about the security situation. That's part of the closing argument, Jeffrey Goldberg, that Donald Trump is seemingly making. It is dark, it is dangerous, it is portending violence."
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