MSNBC's Joe Scarborough patted himself on the back Tuesday for correctly predicting that President Donald Trump would fumble the economy with "radical policies."
The president inherited a humming economy from Joe Biden, but barely two months later he and his allies are seemingly preparing the public for a recession as markets shudder at uncertainty caused by Trump's tariffs and Elon Musk's government cuts — and the "Morning Joe" host rolled a supercut video of himself predicting that outcome since the election.
"So that's Joe over the past few months," said co-host Mika Brzezinski, "and with respect, we also had very honest conversations with members of the business community, CEOs, even billionaires that supported Trump, and the reaction was, 'Oh, Joe, he's not going to do that, you're crazy, he's not going to do that,' and yet Donald Trump's been quite consistent about this, and now he is doing what he has said he was going to do."
Scarborough said some of those skeptics now share his concerns.
"Well, I talked to a lot of people yesterday who had been brushing these warnings aside for months now, and they're not quite as confident this morning," Scarborough said. "They were not quite as confident yesterday. We've had this discussion before — the United States economy was the envy of the world, but it was incumbent upon Republicans, incumbent upon Republicans to do no harm.
"That is a classic Edmund Burke conservative approach. I'm an Edmund Burke conservative, and I have been for 25 years now. But do no harm, and of course, this arrogant notion that the United States could tell the rest of the world, take it or leave it, acting as if this were, you know, 2000 or 2001 where we were the only game in town. It's just not the reality, and so I've been warning of three bubbles – the fiscal bubble, which still will explode at some point if Republicans don't get responsible, and that will be the ugliest bubble of all. The crypto bubble that is starting to pop, and of course, the stock market bubble."
"We're talking about, it's the back and forth," he added. "It's the reckless, the radical policies. It's what JPMorgan Chase called extreme policies that Republicans are pushing that actually are leading us down a pathway of this economic chaos that we saw play out in front of our eyes yesterday."
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