Joe Scarborough let it rip Tuesday and said in an on-air rant he’s “tired of people running America down” in the name of former President Donald Trump.
The MSNBC host bemoaned people who claim “America sucks” whenever Trump is not in the Oval Office and also went on a tear about how Fox News hasn’t devoted enough time to Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
From Scarborough:
“So Donald Trump keeps talking about how America sucks. Before he got elected, America sucked. And then he got elected and suddenly America was great. Then he lost, now America sucks again. You’re voting for a guy like that?
“You live in the most powerful, greatest country on the face of the Earth, and you’re voting for a guy that tells you every day that America sucks? What’s wrong with you? Who raised you? What history did you read? That’s it. Like, where are you from?
Because you may claim to be from where I’m from, but you were not raised by the same teachers I was raised by and you don’t read. Because if you read … the facts are clear. And I’m getting tired of saying this to people who claim to be patriotic, but hate America. Because they’re always running America down. They’re always trashing America. They’re always saying America is horrible. ‘Democracy doesn’t work. We need dictatorship of Donald Trump doesn’t win.’ I’m tired of people running America down.
And on Fox News … they didn’t want to show Donald Trump and his trial. So they got three protests and said, ‘Protests shut down America’ basically, this weekend. … There were like four migrants and a hound dog on top of a hill in New Mexico, and they had their four-migrants-and-a-hound-dog cam for hours. …
They give the viewers anything to try to make America look bad. They are obsessed with trashing America when America is stronger, more powerful than ever before. Its economy is stronger and more powerful than ever. So what do they do? They find a trans athlete in Utah. ‘Oh, the world is coming to an end.’ …
No, it’s better, it’s stronger, we’re more powerful. Our military is more powerful relative to the rest of the world. Our economy is stronger relative to the rest of the world. But you would never know this because they are fed a steady stream of ‘Hate America First’ rhetoric, which I suppose is why you have the chairman of the House GOP saying that some of those dupes — backbenchers — are actually clinging to pro-Russian propaganda and spreading it across their districts, across America and across the House floor.”
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