A panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday lit into President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for making major political miscalculations that would come back to haunt the GOP in coming elections.
During a panel discussion about the cuts that Musk is making at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration, Politico's Jonathan Martin argued that the administration doesn't even seem to comprehend the damage it's doing to itself.
"Of all the issues Elon Musk is dealing with this side of Social Security, I think touching the VA benefits or the VA broadly -- talk about a third rail in a lot of parts of this country!" he said. "And it just hands Democrats a weapon with precisely the kind of voter you're talking about that is otherwise going to be inclined to support Republicans."
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Host Joe Scarborough agreed with Martin that hurting the VA and Social Security were gifts to Democrats who have otherwise struggled to put together a coherent response in opposition to Trump.
"It's one unforced error after another," Scarborough marveled. "You've got a billionaire who runs the Commerce Department saying, 'Well you know what... I mean my mother-in-law, she missed her paycheck, she wouldn't whine about it.' Wow... and then you've got Elon Musk, who tells Joe Rogan that Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme ever. They don't understand that people that get those Social Security checks, so many of them... they're able to pay their rent, to stay in their apartment to get, you know, medicine, to get groceries because of that Social Security check."
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