MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed out loud at Donald Trump doubling down on his false claims about Ukraine aid after French president Emmanuel Macron fact-checked him.
Trump claimed that Europe was "loaning" money to Ukraine to help its fight against Russian invaders, but Macron interrupted him at a press conference Monday to say that EU nations had, in fact, "paid 60 percent of the total effort." The U.S. president insisted that was just a matter of opinion.
"If you believe that, it's okay with me," Trump said in the Oval Office meeting. "But they get their money back and we don't, and now we do. But you know, that's only fair."
The "Morning Joe" host found his claims laughable.
"That's just not true," Scarborough said, laughing. "It's really not. What Macron said was true. So much about this is just doublespeak. We live in really an upside-down world right now, especially, well, domestically, and when it comes to foreign policy."
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Trump has demanded perpetual rights to Ukraine's natural resources and selected infrastructure as payback for U.S. aid to its war efforts, but Scarborough said that deal would clearly be unacceptable to its president Volodymyr Zelensky.
"The thing about that deal is it would be one thing if you pushed these outrageous demands across the table at Zelensky, siding with the country that's repelling Russian aggression, but there was no security guarantee even attached to that," Scarborough said.
"It was 'give us all your money and we will give you nothing in return.' It wasn't even like, you know, you said, like, you compared to them – wasn't even that because there was no protection afforded. It was give us all your money and we give you nothing in return, right?"
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