Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough/MS NOW
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough ran through a long list of President Donald Trump’s second-term disasters on Election Day, and he argued that the deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis will go down as the “turning point” of Trump’s presidency.
With Republicans bracing for potentially brutal midterm losses Tuesday, the “Morning Joe” host said he had “never seen a run this bad," and he contrasted that with how unstoppable the administration looked early in Trump’s second term, when it was armed with Project 2025.
“It was scary for a lot of people,” Scarborough said. “It looked like they were going to run over every constitutional law.”
But the cracks soon appeared, starting with Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Scarborough noted the bill was so unpopular that the president refused to campaign on it, and he said the insistence on restoring deep funding cuts to the Affordable Care Act detailed in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s book stunned him.
“Of all the revelations in there, the one thing that made me gasp out loud is when I saw the number of how much they cut in health care,” Scarborough said, "and I knew what that meant to every American in red state America and blue state America that lived outside of cities.”
Still, Scarborough argued that Minneapolis, where federal immigration agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti, would prove decisive.
“I still believe that when history books are written, that Minneapolis will be the end,” he said. “That will be the Pickett’s Charge version of this administration.”
He called Pretti’s killing an “execution style murder,” and he compared the slaying's impact to Birmingham during the civil rights era, saying it “woke people up.”
Scarborough kept going down the list:
- The Iran war. He said Trump and his allies had falsely warned during the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start it. “Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie,” he said.
- Tariffs.
- What he called a cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which he said “started the tearing of the MAGA base.”
He then interrupted the conversation to add “two of the most important” items, “unprecedented corruption” and Trump’s push to put his name on the Kennedy Center and renovate the Reflecting Pool.
“While people can’t afford to fill their gas tank, the Trumps are getting off with $2 billion, $3 billion, $4 billion,” he said, adding that Trump seemed “more interested in building his legacy than putting food on your table.”
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