Branding expert Donny Deutsch was blocked Thursday from comparing President Trump to a sociopath.
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough asked Deutsch to use his branding expertise to talk about whether Trump is confusing voters by playing to his base on one day, and then playing to a wider group of voters the next day.
“I’m going to give you the honest answer to that,” Deutsch said. “When you’re in the branding business, it’s a very personal business. I would tell my client they need help.”
But Deutsch then made it clear he wanted to talk about how Trump was acting like a sociopath.
“I watched the speech the other night, we’ve been at this for two years now, and we all try as intellectuals to analyze and get our arms around it,” he said. “I happened to stumble across the symptoms and definition of a sociopath. And I’m not at all, I’m not trying …”
That’s when Scarborough cut him off.
“Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, Donny,” he said. “Donny, no, come on.”
According to dictionary.com, a sociopath is a “person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.”
