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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough slammed Wall Street executives who are raking in cash as the stock market hits record highs while bemoaning the supposed poor state of the economy under President Joe Biden.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped to a new record Wednesday as the Federal Reserve signaled it would cut rates several times next year, but "Morning Joe" called out wealthy critics who can't give Biden credit for stoking the economy.
"You have, again, this economy zooming up, and it's going to follow," Scarborough said. "Voters are going to again start feeling this more and telling pollsters this more. I got one thing that bothers me, just one thing. You and I both know I can't use the word that I want to use, it begins with D – I'll just say fellas. There are fellas driving around in convertible Porsches, you know what I'm saying. They're driving around their convertible Porsches, they're pulling into their country clubs. They're getting out, they're having their caddies run up and get their bags. They're going out, going to the clubhouses, like, with their -- I don't know how much Rolex watches cost. Let's say $30,000 Rolex watches that they first bought. They can't get through their conversations at, like, the grill, men's grill, because they keep looking -- I'm serious -- at their stock, the stock counters, to say how much money – 'I made $16,000 just in the time I sat down here.' Then they'll go out for 18 holes and bitch about how Joe Biden is a socialist who is ruining the economy."
"It happens nonstop," he added. "They drive around their Maseratis and Porsches and their convertible Mercedes, they talk about how horrible the economy is. They made millions and millions on Joe Biden's economy, some billions and billions, and they attack him as a socialist. It's just pure garbage."