MSNBC's Joe Scarborough continues to express amazement at Donald Trump's unforced errors as the presidential campaign winds down to its final days.
The former president again warned, during a rally Monday night, that Kamala Harris would lead the country into World War II, which prompted his audience to correct him that he probably meant World War III. The "Morning Joe" anchor and his co-host Willie Geist said that flub was among many stumbles as the race nears the finish line.
"As we said, this is not the first time he has made this mistake, having to be reminded by his own audience that it is not World War II," Geist said. "These are small problems in the context of what we've been seeing recently from Donald Trump. But something is not quite there, synapse is not firing."
"Lost a couple, well, maybe 20 miles off his fastball," Scarborough added. "We'll see what happens."
The Trump campaign has been scrambling to distance itself from an insulting joke comedian Tony Hinchcliffe told about Puerto Ricans at Sunday's rally in New York City, and Scarborough said that's not where they would want to be at this point.
"I've got to say, I'm struck by the fact the October surprise this year thus far has been Donald Trump and the mistakes that the campaign has made," Scarborough said.
"The Madison Square Garden mistake with a guy that trashes Puerto Rico, and nobody can act shocked about it. Donald Trump stayed on stage and talked for a couple of hours, I guess. Never once said, 'Oh, we don't like that joke, how dare we bring that up tonight.' The reason why, there were three NBC producers that saw [Hinchcliffe] the night before his routine, knowing he was going to be on that night. He did the same Puerto Rican joke — I mean, that's part of his act. He told people, 'I'm going to say this tomorrow night,' and the Trump people knew it. They had him on, it took them three hours. The crazy thing is, there were fights inside the Trump campaign on whether they should correct it or not."
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Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance equivocated on Hinchcliffe's widely denounced remarks, saying "maybe it was a stupid racist joke," but "maybe it's not." Scarborough mocked his political ineptitude.
"J.D. Vance yesterday doing what only J.D. Vance can do, making a really bad situation a whole lot worse for your campaign, goes, 'I don't know what the big deal is,'" Scarborough said. "Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, J.D. Vance doesn't know what the big deal is with the joke.
"There was a fight on the campaign about them actually apologizing for a joke that Donald Trump refused to apologize for while he was on the stage."
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