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Donald Trump's allies have been hinting that his vice presidential choice may be announced this week, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough flagged that as an indicator that they're "scared" about his performance on the debate stage.

The presumptive Republican nominee told reporters over the weekend that he'd already made his decision and that individual would be in attendance Thursday at the first presidential debate, and the "Morning Joe" host speculated the Trump team was cooking up a distraction in case he flopped against president Joe Biden.

Donald Trump and his campaign are metaphorically working the referees ahead of his debate because he allowed the rules to be "rigged" against him.

The former president and his allies have been preemptively complaining about the rules, the CNN moderators, and the studio setup, and suggesting that president Joe Biden will be taking some form of performance-enhancing drugs to gain an advantage, but conservative columnist Matt Lewis told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump clearly doesn't feel confident that he'll win on the merits.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire ripped Donald Trump's allies for pushing misleading videos to suggest president Joe Biden was feeble while also claiming he might be using drugs to boost his performance in the upcoming presidential debate.

The "Morning Joe" host wasn't surprised that Trump and his campaign aides were trying to manage expectations before Thursday's debate, but he lambasted the Wall Street Journal and New York Post for helping to boost those false claims about the president's mental fitness.

President Joe Biden is hoping to get under Donald Trump's skin during their first debate and induce him to reveal the unhinged version of himself he shows to fans at rallies, in hopes of horrifying viewers who haven't seen much of him since his presidency ended.

The president's advisers are combing through Trump's recent remarks to help identify potential triggers that might knock him off balance and send him into an off-topic tirade, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that should be relatively easy to do.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shook his head in astonishment after watching Donald Trump revive his widely mocked rant about electric boats and shark attacks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee sparked widespread speculation about his mental fitness earlier this month with a rambling story about electric boats sinking and electrocuting their passengers that then drifted into a rumination on whether that would be a worse fate than being killed by a shark, and he reprised the story over the weekend.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were astonished by Donald Trump's latest rant that was so rambling and incoherent that Fox News cut away from a live broadcast of his remarks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke to supporters Saturday evening at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he raged about "Joe Biden's wave of bedlam and death and terror" and then prattled about shampoo lather water pressure – for the second time in a week – before the conservative network dropped live coverage.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) is trailing his Donald Trump-endorsed challenger John McGuire in a razor-thin Republican primary race that shows how tightly the former president holds the party in his grip.

McGuire won Trump's endorsement last month and made his campaign a referendum on who was most loyal to the presumptive GOP nominee, and the Republican challenger claimed victory Wednesday although Good had closed the gap to 309 votes out of 62,445 votes cast, which would put the House Freedom Caucus chair within the margin to qualify for a recount paid for by the state.

Milwaukee mayor Cavalier Johnson knocked down Donald Trump's attempt to whitewash his insults of Wisconsin's largest city, which will host the Republican National Convention in a matter of weeks.

Trump held a campaign rally Tuesday in Racine, days after he reportedly called Milwaukee a "horrible city" and hours after reports indicated he would not stay there during the RNC but instead bed down in his hotel in Chicago, and the presumptive GOP nominee tried to make amends.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Wednesday called out Donald Trump's racist attacks on Black cities.

The presumptive Republican nominee trashed Milwaukee, the host city for the party's convention next month, during a meeting with lawmakers last week, which drove the "Morning Joe" host to crack open a tall boy of Milwaukee's Best last week on the air and spurred another conversation Wednesday about Trump's racial animus.

A conservative commentator splashed cold water on speculation that Donald Trump would back out of his first debate against president Joe Biden.

Democratic strategist James Carville wagers that Trump won't take the stage with Biden, but former Republican congressional staffer Amanda Carpenter told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the presumptive GOP nominee wouldn't pass up a chance to spew lies and inflict pain on his Democratic rival.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and other "Morning Joe" panelists raised questions about misleading reports in right-wing media suggesting that president Joe Biden suffers from dementia.

The Wall Street Journal recently published a report quoting former House speaker Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans who questioned Biden's mental fitness, which were then aired on local broadcasts by Sinclair Media affiliates, while the New York Post and other conservative outlets pushed a deceptive video that appeared to show the president wander off from a gathering of world leaders.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hammered right-wing media for spreading misleading photos and video that falsely appear to show president Joe Biden wandering away from a group of world leaders.

A social media account managed by Donald Trump campaign shared a clip that appeared to show the president doddering off from the gathering at the G7 summit Thursday before the Italian prime minister alerts him to a group photo, and the New York Post and other outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch seized on the video to suggest Biden was too old and infirm to be re-elected.