Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani got into a heated argument that turned personal in the midst of a discussion on how President Trump is handling the protests following the death of George Floyd.
Giuliani appeared for an interview on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain and was asked about the president’s tweet that read, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The conversation started to get testy when Morgan interrupted Giuliani to “say hello first,” which the former New York City mayor claimed is “what’s constantly being done to Trump by the left-wing media.”
The two debated the nature of the quote from Trump’s tweet, which was originally used by Miami police chief Walter Headley in 1967 as he vowed to crack down on young black men.
“You keep saying it’s the left-wing media that has somehow misquoted Donald Trump,” the British host said. “The president of the United States’s job when this kind of thing happens is to keep temperatures down, not to put fuel on the fire. For the president of the United States to tweet, ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ directly quoting a racist police chief back in the ’60s used dogs and guns on black people.”
“Do you think he went to a book and took that out of a book knowing it came from a racist police chief?!” Giuliani replied. “It’s disgusting how you people have become political propaganda.”
Trump’s personal attorney continued attacking Morgan for not defending the president because he “knew Trump wasn’t racist.” He also called the host a “disgrace” and a “liar.”
Morgan then denounced Giuliani’s commentary about the “left-wing media,” before saying, “What happened to you, Rudy? You used to be one of the most revered people in America.”
“Rudy, I’m sorry, but you sound completely barking mad,” Morgan continued. “You’ve been rude and abusive, and you sound unhinged.”
