Friday saw the 24-hour news outlets bringing people on to say one thing: Holy crap, what is President Trump doing? Except Fox News which probably just brought someone on to talk about why women should wear lipstick to bed or something like that. On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ran a clip that sewed together Trump’s now infamous “American Carnage” speech, written by Steve Bannon for the dark lord’s inauguration, and Thursday’s similarly sounding suicide note speech about the United States pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. After playing them together, Scarborough goes after the theme that America is at some historic economic and military “low,” which is always the tenor of the Bannon/Trump campaign.
Scarborough: It’s stupidity. It’s ahistorical. It’s a lie Donald Trump is telling to himself and to his supporters. What we saw yesterday is, do we have that old TIME magazine article? And I’m telling you, TIME magazine was right, Steve Bannon is President of the United States.
He’s gone in, Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about policy. Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about politics. Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about anything.
Basically.