On Thursday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on an extensive rant aimed at billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency whose gutting of government jobs and programs is having a devastating impact on American military veterans.
Using the deletion of a website page honoring baseball star Jackie Robinson's military service, which was caught up in the Donald Trump's administration's diversity program purge, as a leaping off point, the "Morning Joe" co-host pointed out it is just one small skirmish in a larger war on veterans.
"I actually made a mistake of going on Instagram for five minutes yesterday and somebody that I know, 'Oh, DOGE is using multilayered facets to scrape through it and it's going to reveal that, you know, all this corruption because it's so ruthlessly efficient," he told the panel before stating, "It's just the opposite."
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" CNN reported yesterday they took down websites like on Holocaust remembrance, September 11th, suicide prevention for our vets -- again, what's with the war on vets?" he asked.
Continuing in that line of thought, he added, "Sexual assault: something that [Iowa Republican Senator] Joni Ernst used to be concerned about in the military; she claimed to be and then some people got upset at her, and because she wanted to raise questions about that with Pete Hegseth."
"This is a page that would be great for Joni Ernst to say, 'Hey, you know what? We probably need to get the pages up on ending sexual assault and suicide prevention,'" he suggested, "and other vets, people who care about the vets because there's a war on vets right now in DOGE. If you look at what they've done to the VA, if you look at all the firing of the vets at the Pentagon in other areas, it's really deeply concerning for our vets."
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