MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough said Tuesday that former President Barack Obama’s willingness to deal with the leaders of U.S. adversaries was “child’s play” compared to what President Trump is doing.
On his morning show, a panel reacted to Trump saying Monday that he’s “ready to meet” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani without preconditions as well as Trump’s meetings in recent months with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“If you remember, I was critical and every other conservative was critical of Barack Obama being so focused on dealing with Iran and Cuba,” Scarborough said. “That was child’s play. Donald Trump is North Korea, Russia, now Iran. There is not a tyrant, not a terror state that this guy doesn’t want to cozy up to.”
Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, also questioned when Republicans would get fed up with Trump ignoring their longtime foreign policy outlook and suggested that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will become so frustrated that she will challenge Trump in 2020.
“At what point do Republicans visit — at what point do Republicans, the question we continue to ask, at what point do Republicans say, wait a second. We were anti-Putin and anti-Russian,” Scarborough said. “Didn’t like him shooting down commercial aircrafts or invading other countries. Poisoning people, assassinating. But now Donald Trump says he’s OK, so he’s OK. And he’s rewriting 70 years of policy that Republicans championed and then makes nice with North Korea. And now he sounds so weak. Basically begging the Iranians for a summit. At what point does somebody like Nikki Haley go, ‘I’m out. I’m running against this guy in 2020 before he ends up, like, turning U.S. foreign policy over to all of our enemies.'”
