Trump's new 'whack-a-mole' attacks are going to blow up in his face: MSNBC panel

Donald Trump’s efforts and threats aimed at stifling criticism and mockery will end up blowing up in his face as critics increasingly find new ways to get under his skin.

Reacting to Donald Trump’s latest round of threats following popular late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended “indefinitely” by ABC/Disney, MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough noted that Trump’s latest complaints were already turned into comedy fodder by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on Thursday night.

The MSNBC host equated it to Trump playing “whack-a-mole.”

“We've been around, we're a bit older,” Scarborough told guest Eugene Daniels “You may have a different opinion than me, but it just seems to me, and I'm just curious, just seems to me that this is whack-a-mole for the Trump administration. They get rid of [Stephen] Colbert and they get something far worse. I can't even repeat what they get every week on South Park. They get something harsher and blunter and more popular. And now you have Jon Stewart doing this when you know, and it's going to be nonstop, it's going to be from other parts of popular culture.”

"This is not going to rest,” he added. “Nobody wants to see the federal government [do this] other than Donald Trump and and the most intense MAGA minions.”

“It's like the Wall Street Journal said, well, let me have them say it so people don't think it's my words: ‘Talking about we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Mr. Carr told the podcaster [Benny Johnson],’ who I believe got some money from Russia ‘... in words that could have been uttered by a New Jersey mob boss.’ That's going to turn off, that's going to turn off most Americans. So it just seems to me this is the end of the day, short-sighted, because he's just going to get it from elsewhere and it's going to like South Park. It's going to be even more intense.“

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