The entire panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” burst into laughter after watching a clip of Donald Trump blithely telling reporters, “I love the inflation” on Wednesday — a phrase that may come back to haunt Republicans in the November midterms, they pointed out.
Thursday’s show began with the clip, where the president made the admission, followed by comments about the war in Iran, leading co-host Mika Brzezinski to state, “President Trump, uhhhh, not fazed by the latest economic data, telling reporters ‘I love the inflation. It comes as the —.”
“I love the inflation!” co-host Joe Scarborough loudly repeated as Willie Geist asked, “What are we doing here?” which caused all three to start laughing.
“That would be like [Rolling Stones guitarist] Keith Richards in a police station just blurting out, ‘I love the cocaine, man. I love the cocaine,’” Scarborough added. “I mean, ‘I love the inflation,’ Willie. I mean, like what? Just what's he doing here? I mean, we've had, you know, he calls affordability ‘BS.’ He's like: ‘I love inflation, man.‘ I mean what's going on here?”
“Incredible,” Geist agreed as they all continued to laugh.
“I mean this comes a couple of weeks after, ‘I don't care about people's financial situation,’” Geist continued. There's this entire catalog of lines where he's just saying the worst possible thing he could say if you were trying to, let's say, keep your party in power."
“Yeah, you’ve got to wonder why you don't care about that,” Brzezinski contributed.
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