To watch MSNBC’s Morning Joe is to get a real sense of just how deranged President Trump’s critics in the national media can be.
Joe Scarborough on Monday looked like he might literally spit at the camera as he found a new reason to hate Trump. This time, it’s because the president was “deeply un-American” the previous night while announcing the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
That’s literally something Scarborough said while also comparing Trump to violent dictators in the Middle East.
“He sounded not like a president of the United States,” said Scarborough, who was, surprisingly, not holding a skull. “He actually sounded like Saddam Hussein after torturing people. He sounded like Muammar Ghadafi after he would torture people … It was deeply un-American; deeply troubling.”
Trump had said Baghdadi, who headed the most brutal network of terror groups since al Qaeda, died “like a coward” after “whimpering and crying and screaming.”
Scarborough sympathized with the terrorist.
Others in the media have also criticized Trump for what they described as a “victory lap.” If it is, so what? President Barack Obama was no modest mouse when bragging about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Joe Biden wouldn’t shut up about it, declaring at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”
Obama then posted the quote on Twitter.
Biden was bleating that line as far back as January 2012 and, outside of Fox News, no one said a word about it being tacky.
But Trump isn’t Obama, and people such as Scarborough have never truly recovered from 2016.
