MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off Thursday night's edition of "The Briefing" by ruthlessly mocking the House GOP's latest rebranding attempt to try to stave off defeat in November.
"It seems like little Mike Johnson has finally, finally settled on his pitch for the midterms," said Psaki. "He has managed to boil it all down to one simple message."
"House Republicans continue to deliver for the American people," said Johnson in a clip. "We will continue to do that for the remainder of the year, and that is a large reason why we are going to win the midterms, so that the grown-ups can stay in charge here."
"They have full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome, okay?" he said in a second clip. "And it informs how they see the world and how they react and how irresponsible they are now is on full display for the whole country. I hope voters remember this in the fall. You got to keep the grown-ups in charge. And that's the Republicans."
"Does that make Mike Johnson the grown-up?" laughed Psaki. "Like if you're a grown-up, you don't have a spine? That's how it goes these days. Who knows? But that's their message du jour of this week. Well, today, the 79-year-old man-child in charge of all of those little grown-ups was on Truth Social, bragging about the cognitive test he passed not once, not twice, but three times. You know, the tests where you name the animals drawn on a piece of paper. And Donald Trump might have felt the need to brag about acing those tests, because lots of people noticed that he can't even keep his war straight right now." She played a clip of Trump.
"I think Ukraine, militarily, they're defeated," said Trump. "Okay, you wouldn't know that by reading the fake news, but militarily, look, their navy, so they had 159 ships. Every ship is right now underwater. They have no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft apparatus other than what they may have put there — they may have brought in some light stuff during the ceasefire."
"Ukraine is defeated," said Psaki. "That's what he said. All their ships are underwater. Think you mean Iran? Their pal Iran. See, Donald Trump doesn't even know which war he's talking about."
"So I'm going to put this in terms I think he can probably understand," said Psaki. "Donald Trump started a war with Iran. That war with Iran has made the price of gas go up. And gas is the thing that makes cars go zoom. Got it? And thanks to the war Trump started with Iran, Americans have spent the last two months watching the price at the pump climb higher and higher."
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