As the “Morning Joe” panel was discussing how people who voted for President Trump in 2016 are still planning on voting for him in 2020 despite some of his economic promises have not come through on Tuesday, host Joe Scarborough compared Trump to the Wizard of Oz.
“Willie brings up evangelical voters. Obviously so many evangelical leaders are just rank hypocrites. If you take what they said about Bill Clinton in 1998, 1999, 2000 and now what they’re saying about Donald Trump in 2017, 18, 19, they are rank hypocrites,” Scarborough said.
“But with these workers in Youngstown, Ohio, we have seen it time and again, people voting against their economic self-interest. The manufacturing jobs in Youngstown are not coming back. The other jobs that— mining Jobs that Donald Trump is talking about, not only are they not coming back, they’re going away. The few high profile examples, whether it’s Carrier, or Ford, even Foxconn that Donald Trump talked about, they’ve all blown up in his face,” he said.
“The question is, will those voters discover that this billionaire, that this plutocrat is nothing more than the short, fat, little man behind the curtain in ‘The Wizard of Oz,'” Scarborough said, asking if voters will realize who Trump is before the 2020 election.
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The New York Times story the panel referred to reported on how voters in Ohio, who were once Democrats, will still vote for Trump, even though they haven’t experienced an economic boom.
“What I want from a president is the rest of the world to look at him and go, ‘Don’t mess with that guy, he will get even,'” Darrell Franks said. “I don’t want kinder, gentler. I don’t want some female that wants her agenda.”
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