MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough took aim at President Trump and the audience of the National Prayer Breakfast for cheering on the president’s remarks.
“The most grotesque part was not Donald Trump,” Scarborough said Friday about the event. “We’ve already priced that into the stock. The grotesque part were those people jammed in there, and the people jammed into the prayer breakfast who were laughing along to this abhorrent behavior.”
“This behavior that has cut against not only constitutional norms over the past several months and political norms, but more importantly, cultural norms that Donald Trump shatters every day. And I will say as a — as someone who grew up in the evangelical church — cut against basic norms that evangelicals once claimed to believe,” the host added.
Scarborough, 56, claimed that Trump was “openly mocking the words of Jesus Christ.” The president on Thursday tore into Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Mitt Romney and their faiths during the prayer breakfast.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” Trump said in reference to Romney citing his faith as a reason he was voting to convict Trump. “‘Nor do I like people who say ‘I pray for you’ when they know that that’s not so,” the president said about Pelosi, who claims she continually prays for him.
