Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” slammed President Trump, invoking the apocalypse to say his administration is doomed and could cause a wave of political instability across the globe.
“This is a rogue president, and the question is at this point, what in the world can Congress do, should Congress do?” Scarborough said in a Christmas Eve segment, when he agreed with a Washington Post column describing the Trump administration as “a rogue presidency.”
Within the editorial, retired four-star Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote: “This is a rogue presidency.”
Scarborough then declared that the Trump administration “is terminal. This administration will not survive.”
“What does everybody do, working together, to make sure that this administration, which is terminal, does not behave in a way that creates not only a governing crisis but a pandemic, not only across this country, but across the world?” Scarborough he asked the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson.
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Robinson described the Trump presidency as an “end-state.”
“We all have to wonder: Can we take two more years of this? And if we cannot, then what are we doing to do about it?” questioned Robinson.
Historian Jon Meacham, part of the panel, said that though he agreed lawmakers have a responsibility to act, “I also think it’s up to all of us because far too often what we see in Washington is enabled by the fact that Washington is more often a mirror of who we are than it is a molder of who we are.”
“There are still a remarkable number of Americans who are willing to give the president a pass on these things that … have shaken the basic institutions in a, if not unprecedented, in a scary way,” Meacham said.
Next month marks two years since Trump’s inauguration.
