“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough fantasized about Nikki Haley competing against President Trump in the 2020 election in a new opinion piece.
“How wonderful would it be for our daughters to see this woman — this daughter of immigrants — take a debate stage to coldly cut the Donald down to size, revealing to the world once and for all that this bloated emperor has no clothes? What a sight that would be,” Scarborough wrote.
His op-ed, which appeared in the Washington Post Friday, focused its praise of Haley on standing her ground when she was recently accused of being confused by a White House official about the administration’s position on Russian sanctions.
“The former South Carolina governor announced last Sunday that the United States would impose additional sanctions against Russia and President Vladimir Putin. Haley’s declaration enraged Trump, despite the inconvenient fact she was only following White House policy and GOP talking points,” Scarborough wrote.
“Still, the president went behind his ambassador’s back to assure the Russians he would kill any future sanctions. Other White House officials played down Haley’s remarks, describing America’s representative at the United Nations as ‘confused,'” he continued.
Scarborough hailed Haley for her short, terse response to the accusation, which was made by White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow.
“With all due respect, I do not get confused,” she said. Shortly afterwards, Kudlow apologized and admitted he was “totally wrong.”
“With those nine words, the ambassador declared that, unlike most other members of Trump’s Cabinet, she would not allow herself to be humiliated by a political day trader, whose fitful 15 minutes of fame will come to a close long before a new president takes the oath of office in 2021,” Scarborough wrote.
