MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that people close to President Trump during the 2016 campaign told him the commander in chief “had early stages of dementia.”
On “Morning Joe,” Scarborough warned the U.S. is closer to a ground war on the Korean Peninsula than most Americans realize, urging Cabinet members to take action on removing Trump from the presidency because he’s “completely detached from reality.”
“You serve America and you know it,” Scarborough said. “You know you don’t serve Donald J. Trump … You don’t represent him. You represent 320 million people whose lives are literally in your hands and we are facing a showdown with a nuclear power.”
He continued: “People close to him say [he’s] mentally unfit. People close to him during the campaign told me [he] had early stages of dementia.”
Scarborough expects that he’ll face backlash for his critique of Trump, but asked when he was supposed to say it — “After the first nuclear missile goes, is that when it’s proper to bring this up in polite society?”
“Everybody around Donald Trump knows he’s not stable. Everybody around Donald Trump knows he’s not stable now. Everybody,” Scarborough said, ending the diatribe.
Trump took to Twitter a day earlier to attack Scarborough, suggesting that the former lawmaker should be investigated for the 2001 death of a congressional aide who was found dead in his district office in Florida.
