MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's increasingly "extreme" rhetoric as a desperate ploy for attention, but he said that language will ultimately doom him in next year's election.
The former president in the past week called his political opponents "vermin," in a clear echo of language used by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and threatened to lock up law enforcement officials in mental institutions as punishment for investigating him, and the "Morning Joe" host called that talk a sign of desperation.
"It's another line that's crossed, another time that is shocking but not surprising," Scarborough said. "Again, I'm glad the White House is doing what they're doing, it makes sense. When somebody apes Adolf Hitler and apes Mussolini, when they lift words from 1930 fascist speeches focused at dehumanizing Jews, when they talk about executing the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff because he would not go along with a military coup, when they talk about institutionalizing the second he is elected -- and this was just yesterday -- institutionalizing people at the Justice Department because they're pursuing investigations against him, when he talks about terminating the Constitution of the United States of America, then, yeah, yeah, I think, the White House is really doing what we're talking about yesterday."
"They're focusing on Donald Trump's words," he continued. "Each one of these cases, institutionalizing people in the Justice Department you don't like, and he makes that threat yesterday after lifting Hitler and Mussolini's words, what they used to describe Jews and other enemies of their fascist regimes. When he's talking about terminating the Constitution, when he's talking about doing all of these things, and when he has such extreme remarks on fallen soldiers, saying he doesn't respect them, doesn't understand why, he calls men and women who gave their lives to the United States losers. Well, you know, it's a good thing he is bringing it out."
"I just want to say, I want to underline, again, that I think it's Donald Trump's words that he is doing now," Scarborough added. "You know, he has an old act. This is like Elvis '77, it is an old act. He's near the end, so what does he do? All he can do is keep re-upping for the shock value, he wants to re-up for the shock value, so we'll talk about him and other people will talk about him. What he doesn't understand is it is a double edge sword. Those very words he's using are now being put together by a campaign that's going to beat him again. They're going to beat him with his own words."
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