Morning Joe reached a disgusting new low this morning when Joe Scarborough used the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed close to 3,000 people to suggest that Trump is more of a danger to the country than 9/11 terrorists.
Watch:
Here’s what he said via Newsbusters:
If you strip America of its ideas, forget about knocking down buildings in the financial district, forget about running planes into the Pentagon. Those are tragedies, but those tragedies bring us closer together. America is an idea. You gut America of that idea, that is when you do the most harm to America.
…Across the world you have people looking at a country that is saying they want to ban people from coming to America because of their religion. You have just this week Brett Kavanaugh who wants to be on the Supreme Court refusing to answer whether people should be banned from coming to the United States because of their race, in his reading of the constitution. The accumulation of that, the retweeting of neo-Nazi video, Charlottesville, I can go on and on, what he said about the majority black countries, that is tearing more at the fabric of America than attacks on the Twin Towers did. We built from that, we became stronger because of that but this seems to me a far greater, graver threat to the idea of America.
He even penned an article about this in the Washington Post.
I haven’t watched Morning Joe in almost two years now. I knew he was unhinged against Trump, but I never thought he’d go this low.
Seriously, what a puke.
Twitter responded with outrage over Joe’s comments:
Sniveling crackpot exploits 9/11 to indulge his Trump Derangement Syndrome—> https://t.co/PCbZIFIw5Q
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 11, 2018
Imagine being so disturbed as a human that you write this on 9/11.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 11, 2018
Imagine still that the op-ed department of one of the nation's most-read newspapers publishes it without a question.
What a disgrace. https://t.co/ZE9LRbFcX9
Even if you dislike Trump or disagree with his policies, it's unacceptable to compare him to 9/11 terrorist attacks. Political rhetoric is spinning out of control these days... https://t.co/qMCr0URE9x
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) September 11, 2018
You have become a one-trick pony of Trump Derangement Syndrome https://t.co/DTAWs6qP2z
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 11, 2018
What a gross thing to write and publish this week. I don't care what side of Trump/the political aisle you're on. Not a fan of this. https://t.co/DDFsnhalpt
— Billy Hallowell (@BillyHallowell) September 11, 2018
This is total bullshit. Why would the Post ever publish this crap? https://t.co/5S7KIWU4EO
— Jason Buttrill (@JasonButtrill) September 11, 2018
Whether you support the President or not, this is sick. https://t.co/7Wve70X1qI
— Grace Morgan (@gracieeeemorgan) September 11, 2018
No matter your opinion on who is in the White House, this is grotesque. Stop. https://t.co/fI3XT4Gjcb
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 11, 2018
2,977 people dead. Have some respect. https://t.co/FVTJNzcR1h
— Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) September 11, 2018
If Joe had said this about the last president he would have already lost his job and the Washington Post would have never allowed the story to go to print. But he knows that in this corrosive media environment he can say whatever he wants about Trump and NBC won’t give a damn. How courageous.