MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Friday shamed evangelical parents who worship Donald Trump as an idol in front of their children.
The "Morning Joe" host compared President Joe Biden's speech Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, where he made an appeal for peace and praised the virtues of honesty and decency, with one Trump gave in 2017 where he boasted about the ratings of his reality TV show "The Apprentice."
"If you saw Donald Trump at those prayer breakfasts, it didn't get better," Scarborough said. "It wasn't like he did that, joked and then said, 'I want to talk to you today about the Sermon on the Mount and how it informed' — no! He can't, exactly. There is such a huge difference there, it's so obvious and so crazy.
"I know people, obviously, that have been going to the prayer breakfasts for decades and it's an important part of their lives. They said it was a nightmare for those four years because Donald Trump was all about Donald Trump. He doesn't care where he is, he doesn't care about context, he's only going to tell his own story."
Yet the quadruple-indicted former president has become the Republican frontrunner again, and one of his strongest bases of support was the evangelical community, Scarborough complained.
"Younger boys see their parents praising, idolizing a man who has been found guilty or found liable of sexually abusing a woman, of defaming a woman that a judge said he raped, a guy that's bragged about sexual assault on the 'Access Hollywood' tape, a guy that does illegal payoffs to porn stars at the height of the campaign and then insults her as a horse face, a guy who regularly trashes women, attacks them," Scarborough said. "He's done so to Mika [Brzezinski], he's done so to any woman that challenges him."
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"That's what these families who are idolizing Donald Trump -- and it's straight out of Jeremiah and worshipping idols, they become worthless," Scarborough added. "They do that and they try to justify it on some like grievance. They don't even see in their own households their children seeing them, a mother and father who claim to be children of God, who are worshipping, praising and idolizing a rapist."
Trump has corroded American politics, Scarborough said, and he's having a similar effect on religion and even family life.
"The whole thing is too much," Scarborough said. "I mean, it is what it is. It's sad, it's pathetic and it's having an impact. We're not just talking about the church, we're talking about an impact on young men and the examples that they're seeing in their household of a guy who, again, brags about sexually assaulting women, a guy who a judge has said raped a woman. It's having an impact and it will have an impact for years to come, sadly."
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